5 Common Bridge Mistakes You Make

What other common bridge mistakes do you know of?

[tonyward]

Great to understand these common mistakes! Well presented with a good summary!

[twostate]

The "mistake" about leading from sequences (from K96543 of diamonds) made an excellent point. I think a better example could have been chosen since it is debatable as to what the best lead should be in this auction since the opening leader doesn't have an outside entry and dummy is most likely to have at least 7 cards in the minors and opener will normally have at least a doubleton in diamonds.

[benthomas]

I think I will put a plastic cover over you and carry you in my pocket when I play bridge. I look forward to the video "the 100 mistakes you make at bridge, over and over again".

[ericapierce]

Super clear tips so well explained. Many thanks!

[kiwifruit]

Excellent points.! Keep up the good work.

[Rattlefatblobcow]

Nice video! Slowly but surely learning bridge :)

[yulina.design]

Amazing tips !!! Thank you so much ! I learn a lot 🤓

[yabbaguy]

Your thumbnail game is evolving. Well done.

[slwyee]

I used to do that, bid my heart suit instead doing the take out double just in case partner has a stack. Excellent

[tapif]

Thanks for the video. As an intermediate player, I have a few following questions (for anyone hanging around) :

1) For slam bidding, when a key and trump queen is missing assuming we have space to ask for the queen), should we sign off at 5?

2) Regarding the 1S - 2C sequence.

From my understanding : south has here a rather minimal, but well distributed hand. Partner denies having 4 hearts and 8+ points (he would have doubled otherwhise), and the opponents could very well have more than 20 points. Isn't the double here a bit risky? Or do we balance because we expect opponents with more points to overcall?

Side question : if we have 2 clubs/ 2 diamonds instead of 1 club - 3 diamonds, what would be the correct bid here?

Thanks in advance for the answers!

[denizkonuralp]

I make a point of watching this at regular intervals:)

[michaelkingsbury]

6:33 Why Whist (or Spades) is a good place to start learning Bridge.

[jonthomson]

Was expecting that reopen with a double comment to mention that partner's pass, and the absence of a negative double, will tip us off that we don't have a heart fit

[armantookmanian]

Perhaps you wanted to keep the video short, but I would have liked to see you discuss how hand #1 SHOULD have been bid to find out about the Club control. After 1S-2D (2/1 GF) 2NT-3S 4S (12-14 balanced minimum) Do you recommend cue bids? Do you play cue bids show 1st or 2nd round controls?

[ja]

Peter, for that first example of how to not bid that possible slam, please describe on the correct bidding sequence. Thanks.

[almightyhydra]

Some more for you:

1) blindly continuing with a bidding plan e.g. (1S)-X-(2C)-p; (2D)-3H with a hand that's barely got enough to double-then-bid - it's clear partner has 0-2 points, unless you have a very long suit 3H is unlikely to come in and may well get X'd
2) not continuing with a bidding plan when you should e.g. 2D multi-(2H)-p-(p), consider bidding 2S if your weak two is at all decent, partner is marked with something as opps didn't explore game
3) not finessing dummy's honours, e.g. partner leads high (denying interest), you have AJx, dummy Kxx and plays small, you should probably play J retaining A to beat the K, rather than establishing K and Q separately for declarer
4) not going for the only chance to make / defeat the contract - as an advanced example, opps set up their suit against 3NT, you need one more trick from a KJ guess - you should play the K because even if J forces the A you're down; you need to play for the hand in front of the KJ to have the A and to have fallen asleep / got greedy hoping for a misguess
5) always drawing trumps - sometimes you need to only draw one round, sometimes even let the opponents take a ruff or two first

[harveytang]

Can you give us some tips on what to do if opponents interfere?

[archiewoosung]

On that first hand, would like to have seen how you would bid, not just what was wrong.

[sandy]

It's too bad that BBO is raising its prices again . at least they should provide an explanation. What do you think?

[sandy]

What is meant by a "Best Hand" tournament? Thank you.