Handouts

These are handouts that Linda and Richard have developed for the Intermediate classes on Sunday afternoons at 1:30 and Tuesday evenings at 6:00.

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Linda's Handouts (Each opens to a new window.)
Contact Linda at linda@richmondbridge.net.

	2 Over 1 Basics: Forcing NT		The Law of Total Tricks (Walker)
	2 Over 1 Basics: Part 1		Lead Tips (Kantar)
	2 Over 1 Basics: Part 2		Lebensohl Chart
	2 Over 1 Basics: Part 3		Lebensohl Example Hands
	2 Over 1: Review and Conventions		Lebensohl over NT Interference
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (1)		Lebensohl over Reverses 1
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (2)		Lebensohl over Artificial or 2-suit Bids
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (3a)		Lebensohl over Reverses 2
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (3b)		Linda's List: Tips from Kibbitzing You
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (4a)		Losing Trick Count
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (4b)		Major Suit Openings-Part 1
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (4c)		Minor Suit Jacoby
	12 Habits of Effective Bidders (4d)		More on Doubles
	52 Facts of Bridge Life (Kantar)		Myths, Misconceptions, and Mistakes
	Assault on 1NT		Negative Doubles
	Back to Basics Quiz		Negative Doubles (Bergen)
	Back to Basics Quiz-Answers		Negative Double Point Count (Bergen)
	Balancing		Negative Doubles (Quiz)
	Balancing Over One Bids		New Minor Forcing
	Beginner Convention Card		No-trump: Bidding 3 of a Suit
	Beginner Convention Card Translation		No-trump Review
	Bergen Drury		Partnership Game
	Bergen Raises		Play Advice
	Bergen Secrets		Puppet Stayman
	Bidding Sheet		Puppet Stayman (ACBL Bidding Toolkit)
	Bridge Tips		Rebids by Opener
	Cappelletti		Redouble and Jordan 2NT
	Convention Card		Reopening Double
	Defense Advice		Requirements for Opening 2C
	Defense Problems		Responses
	D.O.N.T.		Responsive Double
	Don't Depend on Probabilities		Reversing
	Drury		Roman Keycard 1
	Fake Moves		Roman Keycard 2
	Flannery		Smolen
	Forcing/Non-forcing		Splinters
	Foundation of the House		Splinters by Kitty Cooper
	Fourth-suit Forcing		Splinters in ACBL Bulletin
	Fourth-suit Forcing Example		Stayman
	Fourth-suit Forcing Example		Super-Accept
	Golden Rule of Bridge		Support Double
	Happened at the Table 8-10-08		Takeout Double
	Help Suit Game Try		Ten Common Errors
	Jacoby 2NT		Trouble with Doubles
	Jacoby Transfer Example		Trouble with Doubles Quiz
	Jacoby Transfer for Minors		Two Over One Overview
	Inverted Minors		Uppercut
	Inverted Minors 2		Using Your Judgment for 1NT Opening
	Inverted Minors: More		Weak Twos Revisited
	Laws Quiz		When Is 4C Gerber?
	Laws Quiz Answers		When you are a defender

Richard's Handouts (Each opens to a new window.)
Contact Richard at rickdey_49@hotmail.com.

	Handout		Handout
	12 Days of Bridge Tips		Jump Cue Mixed Raise
	21 Rules for Being a Good Partner		Law of Total Tricks 1
	A Little Bit of Fun		Law of Total Tricks 2
	Baa Baa Black Sheep		LAWful Preemption
	Balancing		Lawrence: Double Dummy
	Balancing-Larry Cohen		Leading Against Blind No Trumps
	Basic Bidding: Competition		Lebesohl: All Versions
	Basic Defense Quiz		Lebensohl over Reverses
	Basic Tips Cheat Sheet		Lebensohl Over Weak 2
	Bergen Raises		Let's Think About It
	Bergen Raises 2		Major Suit Raises I Teacher's Manual
	Bidding Over Partner's 2C Opening		Major Suit Raises II Teacher's Manual
	Bidding Practice--Pavlicek		Mathe
	Bridge Basics--Pavlicek		Michaels Cuebids
	Bridge Chess Moves		Modified 4-way Transfers
	Bridge Jeopardy		Negative Freebids
	Bridge Properties (website)		New Minor Forcing
	Bridge Quiz		Opening Leads 1
	Bridge Tips--Playing		Opening Leads 2
	Cappelletti		Opening Leads 3
	Card Sense Development		Opening Three Bids
	Cool Conventions		Overcalls
	Coming Alive		Patterns and Freakness
	Competitive Bidding		Plan Your Play
	Counting		Planning the Play
	Cue Bid		Play Inferences
	Cue Bids for Slam		Play Too Fast Series--Mike Lawrence
	Defense 1		Puppet Stayman
	Defense 2		Puppet Stayman by Richard
	Defense: Trump Leads		Quick Tips for Improving
	Defensive Signals 1		Responding to 1H or 1S--Larry Cohen
	Defensive Signals 2		Responding to Weak 2 Bids--Cohen
	DONT		Reverse by Opener
	Double Dummy		Roman Key Card
	Doubles and Redoubles		Rule of Nine
	Disclosure vs Concealment		Rule of Twenty
	Dummy Reversal		Signals - Pick Some
	Ecstasy		Simple Overcalls
	Finesse		Smolen Convention
	Flannery		Squeeze
	Flannery 2		Stealing
	Free Bid		Swiss Team Strategies
	Global Warming		Title Would Give It Away
	Hand Evaluation		Thinking at the Bridge Table
	Hand Evaluation 2		Tips to Improve Your Bridge Game
	A Hand from the Bridge Center		Toby Strite
	Handling Small Hands		Transfer Lebensohl
	Here Yee		Trump Suit Contracts
	How to Use the Enemy		Two Over One: Review & Application
	Imp Strategy		Unusual NT
	Initial Thoughts of Defenders		Unusual Suit Combination
	Interesting Hand		Unusual vs Unusual/1-2-3 Stop
	Jacoby or Texas with a 6-card Major		Using Bidding Space
	Jeopardy 8-28-07		Value of Fourth Trump
	Jacoby 2NT		Value of Fourth Trump 2
	The Law of Total Tricks (Turner)		Weak Major Suit Raises