There are many books and articles about how to improve your play, but there are few bridge books like this one. The intention of this book is to present a kind of Reader's Digest of essays and tips that can elevate your enjoyment and help you play with impeccable ethics. In Volume 1, Randy gives invaluable advice including:
- Useful habits to learn
- How to improve your bidding system
- Which conventions to play
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By Randy Baron
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Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Foreword
- Introduction
SECTION ONE
Having Fun and Useful Habits
1. Be a Good Partner, by Marty Bergen
2. Choose Your Partners Wisely
3. Always Follow the Golden Rule: Treat Your Partner, Opponents, Directors and Everyone You Come in Contact with as You Wish to Be Treated
4. Always Be an Ethical Player. It's Much More Important than Winning, by Denny & Jerry Clerkin
5. Make Sure You Pause After a Skip Bid by the Opponents
6. Familiarize Yourself with the Laws of Bridge, by Robb Gordon
7. When You Are Dummy, Be the Best Dummy You Can Be
8. Ask Questions at the Proper Time
9. Decide Why You Choose to Play the Game
10. Learn The Game; Don't Worry About Winning or How Many Masterpoints You Have Accumulated
11. Hold Your Cards So the Opponents Can't See Them
12. During the Play, Make Sure the Opponents Can't Tell Your Distribution
13. Table Talk and Tells: Your Opponents Are Talking, You Are Listening, by Mike Wolf
14. Relax and Keep Your Wits When Things Aren't Going Well
15. Take a Deep Breath
16. Ecstasy, by Mike Lawrence
17. The Harder You Practice, the Luckier You Get
18. Respect Everyone, Fear No One, by Dr. Lee Bukstel
19. Include at Least Several Declarer Play Books in Your Personal Library and Take Time to Learn from the Example Hands
20. Play Online and Use Computer Programs To Improve
21. The More Experienced Partner Should Adapt to Changes in Your System, by Keith Hanson
22. Always Try to Make Life Easy For Your Partner, by Mark Yaeger
23. Play Against Good Players As Often As Possible
24. Stay in Shape By Finding Activities That Give You More Stamina
25. Concentrate to the Best of Your Ability at All Times
26. Remember That at Matchpoints a Terrible Board Is Only a Zero
27. Smart Players Try For the Best Result Possible, Not the Best Possible Result
SECTION TWO
Your System, Conventions, and Strategy
28. The System You Play Is Not Nearly As Important As How Well You Play the System
29. Arrive Early To Discuss Your System with Partner
30. Consent to Play Only Conventions With Which You Are Totally Comfortable
31. Use the 80-20 Rule When Creating a Bidding System, by Ralph Letizia
32. Learn the Rule of 20 for When To Open the Bidding
33. Use the Rule of 15 When Deciding Whether To Open In Fourth Seat
34. After Partner Has Passed In First or Second Seat, Be Aggressive
35. Don't Be a Slave to the Point Count
36. Open a Strong 1NT with a Five-Card Major with 15-17 High Card Points
37. After Your Partner Opens 1NT, Don't Use Stayman When You Have 4-3-3-3 Distribution
38. Learn Garbage Stayman
39. Playing a Weak No Trump Opening Makes Life Difficult for the Opponents
40. Avoid Any Unilateral Decision on the First Round of Bidding, by Gavin Wolpert
41. Always Plan Your Second Bid, by Jerry Helms
42. In Every Auction Your Partnership Should Understand Which of You Is the Captain
43. Learn the Principle of Fast Arrival
44. With 3-3 In the Minors, Open 1
45. When You Open the Bidding 1 and Rebid the Suit, You Should Have Six Cards in That Suit, by Steve Weinstein
46. Reverses Are Sometimes Misunderstood So Learn About Them, by Barbara Seagram
47. Use Specific Opening Preemptive Bids
48. Ogust Rebids Are Useful Over Weak Two Bids
49. Sometimes It's a Good Idea to Bid the Suit in Which You Are Weak
50. If You Know Where to Play the Contract, Just Go Ahead and Bid It
51. When You have a Misfit, Stop Bidding as Soon as Possible
52. Don't Use the Blackwood Convention When You Have a Void
53. Roman Keycard Blackwood Is Worthwhile for Experienced Partnerships
54. Learn Cuebidding to Make Sure You Don't Have Two Quick losers in a Suit When You Are Looking for Slam
55. Discuss with Your Partner When 4 Clubs Is Gerber
56. Splinter Bids Are Useful if You Have a Solid Partnership, by Dorothy Truscott
57. Don't Bid a Grand Slam Unless You Can Count All 13 Tricks
58. Give Two Over One Game Force a Try
59. Consider the Precision Club, by Brent Manley
60. Learn the Differences in Duplicate Between Matchpoints and Swiss Teams/Knockout Events (Imps)
61. Visualizing Partner's Hand Is a Crucial Part of Accurate Bidding
- Appendices
- ACBL's Zero Tolerance Policy
- Active Ethics
- C-h-e-a-t-i-n-g
- The Worst Opening Lead in the History of Bridge
- Profound Words of the Dalai Lama Who Is Obviously a Bridge Expert
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- 50 Books You Might Enjoy
- 100 Songs I Have Enjoyed
- The 32 (My Lucky Number and Birthday) Best Basketball Players of All-Time
- 50 Profound Quotes