A popular tournament format for Bridge where each table plays with identical pre-set hands of cards.
A popular tournament format for bridge where each table plays with identical pre-set hands of cards.
Questions tagged [duplicate-bridge]
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What is the penalty for bidding out of turn?
In duplicate bridge, what is the penalty for someone bidding out of turn? Specifically, opening the bid by accident while sitting to the right of the dealer.
Judy Andelman Goldberg
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Bridge game individual movement split between "Pro"s and "Am"s
I'm interested in whether anyone knows of bridge movements for individual events in which the players are split (by experience) into "pro"s and "am"s. Thus in each partnership there is a pro player and an am player.
I'm aware of collections of…
Jamie Radcliffe
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Double that is not acceptable
At our bridge game last night LHO opens 1C, overcaller bids 1H, RHO passes, the Partner of overcaller bids DOUBLE, thinking of making a negative double, how should the director rule this.
Diagramatically:
LHO OHO RHO IHO
1C 1H Pass …
claire
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If my partner sorted my cards for me, what would the official ruling be?
We were playing the very first board of the first round of an ordinary session at the local bridge club. I was delayed in getting my cards out of the board as I was learning to set up the computer system and BridgeMates. My partner is very elderly.…
Sheila
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What is meant in matchpoints by "opponents have control of the bidding and play?"
This possibility was raised by "Forget," in answer to this question, and comments about it.
Could it be a phenomenon I've noted under a different description: My partner and I earn a (theoretical) par score but we get a bottom or near-bottom because…
Tom Au
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Dummy's not noticed
In the duplicate bridge game yesterday, I was the declarer and the contract was 3D. My LHO led a H and the RHO won the trick. She led back a H and RHO ruffed with D5. The were 3 hearts in dummy an I said 'small'. My partner, a sweet old lady, played…
Ramadas Prabhu
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The travellers score sheets were not filled for two deals how is the scoring done
The traveller score sheets were not filled up for two deals
What is the scoring for the two pairs
Sdiwakar
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What is the penalty and procedure at Duplicate Bridge when a player revokes twice
What is the penalty and procedure when at duplicate Bridge a player revokes unnoticed then revokes again the next trick around, this time noticed by an opponent before a further card is played. In each case his partner was leading winning trump…
Peter
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What does Opener's rebid here mean?
Dealer opens 1D and Partner responds 1H. Dealer then rebids 2NT.
What does Dealer's 2NT rebid mean? Opponents have passed throughout.
poivre
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duplicate bridge rules for revoke,and any penatly should be imposed
In a recent game we found 3 players had 4 cards left and one player had 3 left. This was noticed on the 9th trick and no one knows when this happened.
What, if any, is the penalty?
ted
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