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Learn Modern Bridge
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Learn Modern Bridge with England international Dominic Rayner.
We need to jump to show a long but weak suit here
For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
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Open 1 Heart, Looking to Rebid 2 ~ #shorts
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For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
A Rare Instance of Leading an Ace
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For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
Dom Playing in & Explaining Online Bridge Game ~ 2 Spades
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Dom playing in & explaining his thoughts in an online bridge game of 2 Spades . For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
5 Clubs as a Sacrifice or not ?
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For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
Dom playing in & explaining Online Bridge Game ~ 3NT
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Dom playing in & explaining his thoughts in an online bridge game of 3NT . For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
Double, to make your partner do something
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For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
Responding to a weak jump Overcall #shorts
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For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
Dom playing in & explaining Online Bridge Game ~ 3 Clubs.
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Dom playing in & explaining his thoughts in an online bridge game of 3 Clubs. For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
We Want to be in Game #shorts
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For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
Dom playing & explaining Online Bridge Game ~ 4 Hearts
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Dom playing in & explaining his thoughts of online bridge game ~ 4 Hearts For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
Push to the 3 Level #shorts
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For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
Let your partner make the Decision #shorts
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For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
Dom playing in & explaining online bridge game ~ 3NT
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Dom playing in & explaining his thoughts of online bridge game ~ 3NT. For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
Interrupting the Opponents next Bid #shorts
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Interrupting the Opponents. For more in depth instructions, hints & all round general play, you can visit Dom's website here: www.allthingsbridge.co.uk
Dom playing in & explaining online bridge game ~ 4 Spades
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Dom playing in & explaining online bridge game ~ 4 Spades
A Perfect time for a Negative Double Bid
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A Perfect time for a Negative Double Bid
A Good Enough Overcalling Hand to Bid Twice #shorts
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A Good Enough Overcalling Hand to Bid Twice #shorts
Dom playing in & explaining online bridge game ~ 2 Spades
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Dom playing in & explaining online bridge game ~ 2 Spades
Dom playing in & explaining online bridge game ~ 3NT
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Dom playing in & explaining online bridge game ~ 3NT
Straight to Game after 1NT Opener #shorts
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Straight to Game after 1NT Opener #shorts
Showing your unusual shape to your partner
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Showing your unusual shape to your partner
Dom playing in & explaining online bridge game ~ 2 Spades
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Dom playing in & explaining online bridge game ~ 2 Spades
Dom playing in & explaining online bridge game ~ 4 Hearts
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Dom playing in & explaining online bridge game ~ 4 Hearts
If the opponents bid your suit #shorts
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If the opponents bid your suit #shorts
Bit late to comment, I know! But I’d have led a diamond as west in that last decision. Force declarer to play the spades? He’s going to win the diamond queen anyway.
Hi Andrew, If you re-watch the video you might hear me say why I was avoiding a diamond lead, you might have missed it! It is because the declarer has a feature in diamonds (we know that from the bidding) so leading away from the KD is risky and will only work if you find your partner with a diamond honour which is quite unlikely on their auction. Dom
@@learnmodernbridge101 whoops, sorry!
Simplistic means over simple. It is nice and simple
16 points and a fit just bid game. Shut out the opponents and a good chance it makes.
Contract they could not complete, West and East Team. Your partner first declared Pass and then agreed for 2 Spades. 3 Diamonds,if you would have declared instead of Spades? That I did not understand. Why not diamonds, Because diamonds fetch less marks?isn't it?Any way, West and East both lost the game, 9 tricks to be completed, could not complete it. 🙏👆
Your lesson is wonderful. I enjoyed your explanation and am sharing it with the girls I play bridge with! We were struggling with "what to do with the 2 club open" and you cleared it all up for us! Thanks.
Great to hear it, glad it was helpful! Dom
2 spades in the 2nd seat red vs. white with this cards is just terrible! 🤮
Not my choice of bid, I agree! Even though I do like bidding as much as possible haha. Dom
If they're playing Lebrnsohl then 3H shows some positive values ( 8+ ?) , then 3NT is not so brave,just reasonable . For me his first bid should have been 2NT with a strong hand , a Spade stop and no support for Hearts.
Wholeheartedly agree with your comments. I don't think this partnership were playing Lebensohl so it was more of a lucky punt to 3NT! Dom
"Unfortunately for west"? I think it is fortunate that my opponents are trying to bid my suit, it increases the chances the hand will go well for us. Pass, of course.
Haha fair comment. I think I meant it is unfortunate that they can no longer bid - I like bidding! Dom
there is NO WAY you want to respond two of a suit with that anemic 8-loser hand. My advice is to dump ACOL and start playing 5-card majors. And bid 1NT for the moment.
There are ups and downs to playing ACOL, I agree, however, responding at the 2 level with an 8-loser hand is completely normal and safe. Make it a 9-loser and now a 2 level response is a stretch. Hope this helps, Dom
What system are you using here? ACOL?
Yes, it's always ACOL, unless otherwise stated.
Late to comment, I know, but I love these thoughtful analyses of bidding and play/defence. I do, however, wonder if he keeps his partners for very long! That unusual 4NT bid was so over-bearing.
East supported west with 19 points 19+ 11 points = 30 points. South with 9 points in hand did not have a chance. Both did not give a chance to South and North.
I’ve found your site rather late! I’d like to say I like the way you explain your thinking on both bidding and play so well, though. Thank you.
Thanks Andrew. Glad to hear you are enjoying the videos :) Dom
Interested to see what would have happened after a 1❤ opening. Could partner have participated in the auction? A ♠️ at trick two really looked good.
Hi Eric, Thanks for your comment. Interestingly, I think that West would have probably bid the same 2S bid as a weak jump overcall, and unless N-S were playing 5 card majors, I dont think North has a clear bid. So the end contract would probably be the same! Cheers, Dom
Instead of 4 clubs, why not a double?
Hi Jim, Thanks for your comment. A double would not show a spade fit and instead would show the other unbid major, in this case hearts. This would be called a 'negative double' and would not represent our stong spade fitting hand here. Cheers, Dom
Contract done by West.
If declarer has AQ then it doesn't matter which spade we lead. Declarer probably doesn't have Qx or Qxx (though the latter is possible). So the most likely scenario where it make a difference is when declarer has A without Q. In that case, leading the K wins against a singleton Q in dummy or partner's hand (unless declarer has 4 spades). It loses if either has a singleton A.
Really enjoying the thought process from both sides of the table. Interesting and really helpful thx
Glad you liked it Allan! Dom
Yep. Your partner has a good idea how your hand is shaped.
Love from Bangladesh💙1st view
This is new to me. As you and your partner show each other the Card( in this case Diamond of your partner )card shown, so also heart card of yours is shown in the video.Same with Opponents. Nicely explained. 👆🙏👍Thanks and Regards. You must have shown this early, I must have missed it. I watched the video again and again to get the glimpses of Cards.
Please more videos like this.. . TKS
Hey I really think your thinking is brilliant and something I would aspire to. Fab site glad I found it/you
What do you call this asking bid
Hiya, It is often called the '2NT enquiry' or simply a '2NT ask'. Hope this helps, Dom
East really dropped the ball there.
Yes, agreed - a transfer to hearts here would have located the huge heart fit. Having said that, West should not have bid 1NT with a singleton spade, but it appears to have worked in this case, as long as East transfers to find the heart fit of course! Dom
Thanks
Spade finesse? Better odds than playing for the drop and, even if it loses, there's no switch from West that can hurt you.
Yes, good point Baz! Lazy of me to cash the AKQ of spades when a finesse is a better chance as you say. Cheers, Dom
Hi Dom, could you explain how exclusion RKCB works, and how to respond? Does exclusion RKCB apply to non-NT opening? Thanks, Toto
Hi Toto, Sure thing, no problem. Exclusion RKCB is used when you have a known trump fit, a slam interest and you hold a void in a side suit. If you bid a traditional RKCB 4NT to ask for key cards, this is inefficient because of your void. When your partner answers with their quantity of key cards, the answer isn't that useful because you don't know if one of their key cards is in your void suit, which is not needed. Exclusion RKCB looks to solve this problem by using a different enquiry about key cards but excluding any key cards in the bid suit. To do this bid, you need to leap to 5 of a new suit, out of the blue. It needs to be clearly an exclusion RKCB bid, so it needs to be a surprise, if you see what I mean. The answers to this 5 level bid are then as normal RKCB - 1 step would be 0 or 3 key cards, 2 steps is 1 or 4 key cards, 3 steps is 2 without the Q and 3 steps would be 2 key cards with the Q. Very importantly though, when responding to Exclusion RKCB, the responder must NOT include the Ace of the void suit. Exclusion key card relies on this feature, not counting the Ace in the void suit means that the responder answers with their quantity of the key cards that 'matter'. An example of this 'in action', would be something like: 1H - 3H 5C - 5S 7H - P The 5C bid is exclusion key card, asking for key cards but not including the Ace of clubs. The response of 5S is 3 steps up from 5C, so it shows 2 key cards without the Q of trumps. And to answer your question about if it is usable after a NT bid, the answer is yes, but you'd need to have a clearly agreed trump suit first. Something like: 1NT - 2H* 2S - 5D This 5D would agree spades (by force) and ask for key cards excluding the Ace of diamonds. Hope this helps, Dom
I only see the hand here, but isn't this scenario exactly the case for a positive response to 2C. You've wasted the entire 2-level by bidding 3C.
5D voidwood perhaps. Still would end up in 5H though.
Very instructive!
I don't understand why a positive response "consumes more space". You bid at the exact same level as the opener would bid at and, yes, sure 3C would take up a lot of space, but so would a 3C bid by opener (after 2D). There may be other reasons to prefer not having a positive response (such as wrong-siding the contract) but please explain how it takes up more space.
Hiya, A positive response will almost always take up more bidding space than using an automatic 2D* reply. This is because even if the responder bids something rather innocent looking like 2S, the opener can now not bid hearts at the 2 level, so it would then need to be 3H and finding a fit before bypassing 3NT becomes a lot, lot harder. Something like: 2C* - 2S 3H - ? With: AQ10xx xx Jxx Qxx Means that you would have to guess whether to agree hearts or punt 3NT. Whereas with the sequence: 2C* - 2D* 2H - 2S 3H - ? The responder has much more info by the time they come to make the decision. Here they would agree hearts as they know the opener has 6+ now. There are ups and downs to both methods, but my preference is playing 2D* as a relay. Hope I've convinced you as to why! Cheers, Dom
You speak to fast , please consider.
Will try to slow down in future vids! I just have so much to say haha. Dom
You need nerves of steal to carry off that heist, yes...
Correct! But it is our only chance so one you have to take! Dom
I came here after a basic rules video. As far as bidding strategy goes, I'm keeping up by running behind with a grip on the bumper. The play was pretty straightforward, but the most confusing part was each player keeping their cards after the trick. When the cards flip over my brain immediately throws out what they were and who won.
Keep at it! The short term memory of what cards have just gone dramatically improves after you have played a few hundred (or thousand!) hands. Cheers, Dom
Thank you. I notice that this video was posted 3 years ago, but I have only just discovered your channel and I found it to be exceptionally helpful. Your explanations and the way you played the game was logical and clear and you made it seem so easy. I am a relative beginner at bridge and play the American standard system opening with 5 card majors and strong 1NT.
Glad it was helpful !
East instead of saying 2 clubs / 2 Spades giving partner a hint,said 2 hearts, and secondly again going for 3 clubs?While taking tricks also East made a mistake With Ace club in hand, still lost the game, could not complete the tricks when the game was on. Incredible!!👆🙏
Hi, East's bid of 2H* was a transfer to spades so it shows 5+ spades. In effect they have shown their spades with a 2H* bid so their second bid of 3C shows a 4 card club suit too, which means they have then shown 5:4 in spades and hearts. In my opinion East should have a slightly stronger hand to show their second suit at the 3 level, as they have forced the bidding to game with only 11 points. Hope this helps, Dom
Could you please turn the hand with the cards to the camera, is not very clear. Cheers and thanks
Will endeavour to do that in future videos! Cheers, Dom
Take your 9 on top. If Hearts are 3-3 you will have 10 on top. You can then try to make 5 Club tricks as you are not endangering the contract .( Cash CK ,then finesse CJ ). Not to be risked if playing anything but 'Pairs '.
Hi Wiliam, Depends on the scoring of the game that you are playing, but I agree with you, if you are playing teams/imps, where making your contract is of paramount importance. In most club level competition, however, the scoring is matchpointed pairs, where risking your contract for overtricks will often be a good idea, as overtricks are very important to get your score to the top of the leaderboard (this can often be by only 30 points or so!). Most of my lessons are aimed at those playing in regular club duplicate sessions, and therefore there is often a 'pairs bias' in what I am talking about! Hope this helps, Dom
Speak slowly please 🙏
Will endeavour to slow down for future vids! Dom
I much prefer this presentation of Bridge scenarios, with a clear picture of the table, cards etc and not too long and complicated commentary, with seldom used conventions.
We play 2NT as the only forcing response asking for strength and features. In this case north would respond 3S which means that they have the king of spades and a maximum. With that info 3NT seems pretty safe.
Hiya, Yes, I also play that system but I think in most cases you will want a fit for their opening suit in order to bid this 2NT* forcing enquiry. What do you do if partner has a feature in the 'wrong suit' or is minimum and so just repeats their suit at the 3 level? With no fit you possibly have a problem, so I think you should have a fit (2+ cards) to bid 2NT* in response to a weak 2. There is of course the fringe case (as we can see in the video) where you have an extremely strong hand and you think 3NT might make even opposite a minimum weak 2, so you could make the argument to bid 2NT* with these hands, but if your only end goal is to end up in 3NT (because you have no fit for their suit) then you might as well just leap straight to it I think. Not an easy hand to bid given the weak 2 opener so I can see arguments for different approaches to be fair. Hope this helps :) Cheers, Dom
Major fit is better because playing IMPs. Match points you only need to score the same amount of tricks in NT more than 50% of the time for 3NT to be better.
Hiya, More often than not, there will be an extra trick if playing in a trump contract versus a no trump contract (with the same cards). This means that you will frequently get 650 vs 630 or 420 vs 400 when playing in a major. This isn't always true of course, but it is around 90% of the time where the major will be better (assuming there is an 8+ card fit there of course). Cheers, Dom
Right!!
more errors than in a beginner's game.
Why would N bid 2D? Surely there are better ways to show strength than changing suit 2 over 1 with that weak diamonds.1s-pass-3s (leave room for S to explore a possible slam)-pass-4s seems more decent.
Most people play 3S promises four cards.
@@d95mback Not if you play major suit five. Besides, if you change suit you definitely promise five cards AND a at least one high card. Ten-nine-xx definitely do not qualify. Besides, 1S-2D do not represent 15 HCP. Bidding a minor suit makes no sense at all. You have AKx in your partner suit and propose a minor suit? If I were in S I would assume you have at best a singleton in Spades, if not a void. And I would also assume you have something like 10-11 HCP and a very strong diamond suit.
@@rufus2731if you play it that way, as a three card limit raise, you are far too strong for that bid here.
Hi all, Yes, agree with d95 above. 3S would promise 4 cards in this case as this pair are playing 4 card majors not 5, and even if 3S only needed 3 cards, your hand is much too strong for a limit raise here. Cheers, Dom
How come you came to know that your partner has 5 spade cards with him?Is there any thing I missed while watching the video? Pl. Reply.
His partner overcalled 1 spade
Yes, there was a 1S overcal by partner. Cheers, Dom
What do you think of a 2C opener from south? It's 19 points and a VERY strong spade suit. Only 3 losing tricks by my count with the singleton ace of hearts. Could that had pushed them to slam being 10 HCP opposite a 2C opener? It could have also lead them to the penalty double as well.
Hi Joshua, Yes, I think a 2C opener by South would certainly help them here. You normally would require more points to open 2C but as you say, the spade suit is magnificent, and the hand is only a 3 loser. When unbalanced you should look at your losing trick count to decide whether to open 2C or not. I would say with 3 losers or fewer, it merits a 2C opener, so this hand definitely qualifies! Good catch! Cheers, Dom
Why would you not try to finesse the jack of spades?
Yes, not a bad idea for a possible extra trick. As you can see, this finesse would fail, but that is not a reason not to try it! Dom