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Bidding Quiz

Hand A Hand B With Hand A LHO opens 1NT and RHO bids 2♣, what do you do?

♠ A9854 ♠ J98 With Hand B it’s both vulnerable. (a) What do you open?

♥ 109 ♥ AQ8 (b) Suppose you open 1♣. LHO bids 1♦, partner bids 1♥ and

♦ 3 ♦ 1053 RHO bids 1♠, what do you bid now?

♣ Q10963 ♣ AJ64

Hand C Hand D With Hand C you choose to open 1NT - I think that that’s better

than the reasonable alternative of 1♦. Anyway, LHO overcalls 2♥

♠ KJ ♠ Q7 and partner doubles (penalties of course). What do you do?

♥ 95 ♥ A

♦ AKJ84 ♦ KQ987 With Hand D partner opens 1♥. (a) What do you bid?

♣ K653 ♣ KQ1083 (b) Suppose that you accidentally bid 2♣ and partner bids 2♥

What do you bid now?

Bidding Sequence Quiz

E 1NT pass 2♣ dbl 1NT is 15-17, 2♣ is Stayman; what does the dbl mean?

F 1NT 2♥ dbl 1NT is 15-17, what does the dbl mean?

G 1♥ pass 2