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2	Competitive Bidding: Objectives Maximise our percentage on the board i.e. maximise our match points
3	Competitive Bidding: How Are We Doing? We started with 50% or half the match-points How have events thus far altered this? Bidding is an uncertain process – a gamble Gambling is most successful when the odds are in our favour
4	Bidding For The Lead
5	Straightforward Competitive Bidding
6	Straightforward Competitive Bidding
7	Back to How Are We Doing?
8	Back to How Are We Doing?
9	The Actual Traveller
10	How Are We Doing? Summary We’re probably already beating pairs who didn’t find the spade fit 10 tricks in ♠ will only make 60% of the time We’re already doing quite well on the board So we’ll stick with what we’ve got – 4♠ is a poor gamble
11	How Are We Doing? Example 2
12	How Are We Doing? Example 2
13	Example 2: The Actual Traveller
14	How Are We Doing? Example 3
15	How Are We Doing? Example 3
16	How Are We Doing? Example 3
17	How Are We Doing? Example 3A
18	How Are We Doing? Example 3A
19	Summary In Pairs, it’s match-points we’re after The technique we use is How are we doing? Every bid carries a risk Gamblers want to have the odds on their side: if we’re doing well on the board, we don’t take risks if we’re doing badly on the board, we look to salvage match-points Actions at Pairs are quite different to Teams and rubber bridge