Takeout DoublesTakeout for the unbid suits, OR 17+ points— Negative DoublesThrough 2— SOS RedoublesRedoubling for takeout after the opponents double for penalty— Slam Bidding BidDescriptionRelated Conventions 4GerberAsks for aces in a no-trump contractDOPI ...
For instance, to increase a bid of 2-Diamonds a player must either increase the level to at least 3 or choose 2-Hearts or 2-Spades. Players can choose to double their opponents bid instead of increasing the bid. If the bid is doubled then the option to the other team is to increase...
Double For takeout. Asks partner to either pass with the opponents' suit, or bid his own. Any new suit 6+ cards, non-forcing. Additional length or strength is needed to bid at the 3-level. 2NT Still the artificial ask, albeit highly unlikely. The following example is from "25 More ...
[When opponents interfere after responder's bid] If responder's bid was at 1NT or higher or 1♥, double by opener becomes penalty. If responder's bid was 1♦ or 1♠, double by opener is takeout. Opener's primary duty with 15-17 is to pass the interference so as to limit ...
What action should a Director take if attention is drawn to this bid by their opponents. There is added confusion to this problem because of the change in EBU regulations that stated that players do not alert bids above 3NT. A recent regulation now states that during the first round of bi...
With a double-mind of learning and criticizing, we attended the P&G conference and were shocked in a different way. The first thing that has impressed us is the careful and detailed preparation. After we decided to attend the conference, the preparation team soon applied our E-mail and gave...
This process includes not only bargaining—the presentation and exchange of proposals for addressing particular issues—but also the attempts by each party to discover and use knowledge of the preferences, strengths and weaknesses of their opponents to reach a resolution that maximizes their own ...
For that, it is necessary for a community operator to model its opponents’ expected payoffs according to the probability distribution on opponents’ types. That is, Bayesian game approach will be employed to formulate the bidding optimization model in the paper. In brief, the contributions of ...