1. 11-20 Summary
Rules for responding to 1/1/1/1
Pass with 0-5 points: Respond with 6 or more points
With 4-card support for partner – always raise him
Without support for partner – bid a new suit or no-trump

2. Limit Bids
Limit Bids
11-20 Summary
Limit Bids bids which closely define the number of points in your hand
Responding( eg to 1H)
NT or 2H single Raise
NT or 3H double raise
NT or 4H Game Raise
You do not need to bid after a limit bid
A new suit is unlimited and forces a response from opener
When responding bid your suits upwards,.
Show majors whenever possible.

3. Opener’s Rebid
There are no absolute rules in Bridge -
only guidelines based on probabilities.
Always raise partner with four-card support
With a minimum opener (12-14HCP) – raise one level
With extra values (15-17 HCP) – raise two levels
With a maximum opener (18-20 HCP) – raise to game

4. Openers rebid 1NT shows 15-17 2NT shows 18-19 over a 1level bid
Jump shift is ( 6 card suit) forcing to game and a suggestion that there may be a slam
When partner makes a limit raise you either bid on or Pass.

5. Defence
Opening Lead
Standard leads are -
Top of a Sequence KQJ74, QJ103, J10952
Ace from AK AK53, AK6
Low from an Honour K72, Q964, K9643
High with no Honour 954, 7632, 83

6. Defence
Rule for Second Hand
When declarer leads a low card from his own hand or from dummy and you are next to play, play low.
If you play a high card, you destroy the value of partner’s high cards.
Cover an honour with an honour unless you have four or more cards in the suit.

7. An honour if it can beat dummy’s card Low from an honour
Defence
Differences between Leading and Third Hand Play
Third Hand
Lowest of a sequence
Leading
Top of a sequence
An honour if it can beat dummy’s card
Low from an honour

8. What happens if West plays the ace? NS make the king and queen.
Defence
Rule for Second Hand
K63
N W E S
A107
J854
Q92
South leads the 2.
What happens if West plays the ace?
NS make the king and queen.
And if West plays low?
EW make the ace and 10 by capturing the queen.

9. Establishing and Cashing Tricks
Declarer Play
Establishing and Cashing Tricks
When establishing or cashing tricks, start with the high cards from the shorter hand.
Avoid blocking the suit.
AQJ1054 K8
Play the king (or low to the king) and then 8 to the ace.
QJ AK2
Unblock the A and K and the 2 to the Q.
If you play the Q first, the suit is blocked and you will need an entry in another suit to cash the length tricks.
Try to play towards an honour

10. Declarer Play
Identify and establish work suit before cashing tricks in side suits

11. Defence
Rule for Third Hand
When partner has already played low, it is your job to try to win the trick, or to force out declarer’s high card.
Third Hand High means the lower of two equal cards or the lowest of three or more equal cards.

12. What happens if East plays the 2?
Defence
A84
Rule for Third Hand
N W E S
K32
Q1075
West leads the 5.
Dummy plays the 4
J96
What happens if East plays the 2?
South gets a cheap trick with the 6. He gets 2 tricks.
And if East plays the king?
South only makes the ace.

13. If it goes 2 - 10 - J - A, who has the queen?
Defence
1074
Rule for Third Hand
N W E S
QJ6
K532
A98
West leads the 2.
If it goes J - A, who has the queen?
West knows that South doesn’t have the queen.
East must have it.

14. By playing the queen, East denies holding the jack.
1074
Defence
N W E S
Rule for Third Hand
K532
Q96
AJ8
On a slightly different layout, if it went Q - A, who has the jack?
West knows that East doesn’t have the jack because holding QJx East would have played the jack.
So South must have it.
By playing the queen, East denies holding the jack.

15. An honour if it can beat dummy’s card Low from an honour
Defence
Differences between Leading and Third Hand Play
Third Hand
Lowest of a sequence
Leading
Top of a sequence
An honour if it can beat dummy’s card
Low from an honour

16. Signalling
Low encourages High Discourages
Low Like High Hate
Signal when partner leads an honour card
Signal when discarding

17. Overcalling
To overcall in a suit, you need at least a 5 card suit
Overcalls are based on playing tricks NOT points
An overcall at the 1-level needs 4/5 playing tricks
An overcall at the 2-level (not a jump) needs 5/6 playing tricks
To open count points:
to overcall count playing tricks

18. Coping with Overcalls
Rule 1: When partner opens the bidding and RHO makes an overcall that does not prevent you from making your normal response –
make your normal response
Note that further bidding is not affected – a change-of-suit-response is still forcing.
Rule 2: When you would have made a 1-over-1 response but the overcall forces you to bid at the 2-level
instead, you must have at least a 5-card suit and at least 10 HCP

19. Bidding no-trump over an overcall:
Rule 3: Responses in no-trump promise at least one stopper in opponent’s suit.
You can respond 1NT with 6-9 HCP,
2NT with HCP,
3NT with 13+HCP
as before – but only when you have a stopper in the suit they have bid.
With no stopper find another bid – or pass.
If the overcall does not prevent you making the bid you would have made - you can still make it

20. Stayman Convention after partner opens 1NT
2C asks partner if he has a 4 card major
Opener responds
2 “I do not have 4cards in either major”
2 “I have 4 hearts (and maybe 4 spades as well)”
2 “I have 4 spades, but not 4 hearts”
You use the Stayman convention when you think that 4 or 4 may be a better contract than 3NT
This means you must have a 4-card major yourself.

21. The Take Out double
Double of an opening bid of one of a suit says:
“Partner, I have opening strength (12+HCP) but no suit good enough to overcall. (no 5 card suit)
Please name your longest suit. I can tolerate any other suit” You are normally short in opponents suit
You may not pass partner’s takeout double
If RHO bids over partner’s double he has removed your responsibility to bid.
We do not need to bid when partner has another chance to do so.

22. End of Lesson