Responses to Takeout Double in Contract and Duplicate Bridge
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Competition – an essential ingredient to make us better than the status quo. And at the Bridge table, with adequate values everyone loves to win the auction. So when it’s our partner that makes a Takeout Double, we certainly want to both cooperate and compete for the best contract. Sometimes playing a part score contract with a good 8 card suit fit is sufficient. Other times after partner doubles with opening values and we hold like values in our hand, we immediately know a game contract is in the proverbial cards.
Ah, it would be nice if competitive bidding was always that simple, right? But for better or worse, we need to carefully consider seemingly innumerable options. So together we will walk through some of the more common scenarios following common sense bidding tactics, tracking closely with your existing bidding methods.
In part 2 of our series on Takeout Doubles, we will continue to use Barbara Seagram’s “Bridge – 25 Ways to Compete in the Bidding.” In our concluding episode we will explore opener’s rebids – coming soon the BridgeHands video screen near you! (and we mean REALLY near you) [Read more…]
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