Auction of To-day Ebook

Table Of Contents:

INTRODUCTION
I. THE DECLARATION 1
II. ORIGINAL DECLARATIONS BY THE DEALER 15

• Table of Hands in which the No-trump Declaration is Doubtful.
• The Bid of One No-trump.
• When to bid Two No-trumps.
• Table of Doubtful Hands illustrating Exception.
• Exception to the No-trump Rule.
• Suit Declarations.
• The Two Spade Bid.
• Various Ideas of the Two Spade Bid.
• The Three Spade Bid.
• When to bid Three in Either Royals or Hearts.
• When to bid Two in Either Royals or Hearts.
• The Two Bid in Diamonds or Clubs.
• Table of Hands in which a Trump Declaration is Doubtful.
• How to declare Two-Suit Hands.

III. SECOND HAND DECLARATIONS 60

• When to bid No-trump.
• Bidding over One Spade.
• When to make a Trump Declaration.
• The Bid of Two Spades.
• The Double of One Spade.
• Table of Spade Bids.
• How Second Hand should bid after an Offensive Declaration.
• The Bid of Three Spades.
• The Shift.
• How to Bid against Two or Three Spades.
• When to Bid Two No-trumps over One No-trump.
• When to Bid No-trump over a Suit.

IV. THIRD HAND DECLARATIONS 82

• When the Dealer has shown Strength, and the Second Hand passed.
• When the Dealer has called One Spade, and the Second Hand passed.
• When "Two Spades" has been declared.
• When "One Club" or "One Diamond" has been declared.
• When "Three Spades" has been declared.
• When "Two Diamonds" or "Two Clubs" has been declared.
• When "Two Hearts" or "Two Royals" has been declared.
• When "One Heart" or "One Royal" has been declared.
• When to overbid a Partner's No-trump.
• A New Plan for Overbidding.
• When to overbid with Strong Clubs.
• When to overbid One No-trump with Two No-trumps.
• What Third Hand should bid when Second Hand has declared.

V. FOURTH HAND DECLARATIONS 114

• When the Only Offensive Declaration has been made by the Dealer.
• When the Dealer's Defensive Declaration has been the Only Bid.
• When the Only Offensive Declaration has been made by the Second Hand.
• When the Dealer has Made a Defensive, and both the Second and Third Hands Offensive, Declarations.
• When the Only Offensive Declaration has been made by the Third Hand.
• When the Dealer and Second Hand have made Offensive Declarations, and the Third Hand passed.
• When all Three Players have made Offensive Declarations.
• When the Dealer and Third Hand have made Offensive Declarations, and the Second Hand passed.

VI. CONTINUATION OF THE BIDDING 130

• When to overbid the Partner.
• When to advance the Bid.
• Flag-Flying.

VII. DOUBLING 143

• When to redouble.
• The Choice between a Game and a Double.
• What to do when the Partner is doubled.

VIII. LEADING 158

• Number-showing Leads.
• How to lead against a No-trump.
• The Lead against a Suit Declaration.
• Table of Opening Leads against a Trump Declaration.
• How to lead to a Double.

IX. THE PLAY 183

• Playing for Game.
• Difference between Play in Auction and Bridge.
• Play for an Even Break.
• Declarer's Play of No-trump.
• General Play of the Declarer.
• Declarer's Play of a Suit Declaration.
• The Signal.
• Play by Declarer's Adversaries.
• The Discard.
• Avoid opening New Suits.
• Blocking the Dummy.
• How to return Partner's Bid.
• Table showing when Third Hand should finesse.
• The Finesse.

X. SCORING AND SCORE-SHEETS 213

• Samples of Score-Sheets.

XI. THE LAWS 225

• Decisions by the Card Committee of The Whist Club of New York.
• 1912 Code of The Whist Club of New York.

SUMMARIZED PENALTIES 277
APPENDIX: QUERIES AND ANSWERS 279