Admit it: you love playing 3NT contracts. You only need to make nine tricks, and your opponents can’t ruff any of them.
Many doubles populate the bridge landscape: penalty doubles, takeout doubles, negative doubles.
When you’re dealt a huge, two-suited hand, do you bid an artificial and forcing 2♣?
Q. 1 — Sitting South and dealing, with North-South vulnerable, you hold: ♠ A K, ♥ 9 7 5 2, ♦5, ♣ A 10 7 5 3 2.
Many bridge players don’t realize it, but the same responses apply to partner’s 2NT opening bid as apply to 1NT.
The Bridge Club of Martha’s Vineyard will open play on Saturday, June 18, at the Tisbury Senior Center.