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Psychic bid

Submitted by nicolae on Sun, 05/15/2011 - 11:37
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Psychic bid (also psych) is a bid in contract bridge, grossly misstating the power and/or suit lengths of one's hand, used deliberately to confuse the opponents.

Contract bridge glossary - B

Submitted by nicolae on Mon, 04/12/2010 - 14:32
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Balanced hand
A hand is said to be balanced if it has a distribution of 4-3-3-3, 4-4-3-2, or 5-3-3-2 (Also defined as "no voids, no singletons, and at most one doubleton"). Balanced hands are particularly suitable for notrump contracts.
Bid
A declaration of both level and denomination (suit or no trump) that generally indicates the number of tricks the bidder believes their partnership can win; certain bids can also be used as conventions.
Bid out of turn
A bid erroneously made when it was other player's turn to bid. Subject to penalty.
Bidding
The first phase of the game, where players try to establish the final contract by making subsequent bids.
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2/1 Game Forcing

Submitted by nicolae on Thu, 10/29/2009 - 04:25
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2/1 game forcing (Two-over-one game forcing) is a bidding system in modern contract bridge, where a non-jump two-level response to a one-level opening bid commits a partnership to at least the game level. It is based on Standard American bidding and has largely superseded it; the principal difference is that a full opening bid is required for a response at the two level to an opening bid of one of a major. Thus, the response of 1NT to 1♥ or 1♠ opening is forcing or semi-forcing.

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