Competitive Bidding at Pairs

Burnham Bridge Club

Summary

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•In Pairs, it’s match-points we’re after

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•The technique we use is How are we doing?

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•Every bid carries a risk

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•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

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•Actions at Pairs are quite different to Teams and rubber bridge

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	We all know that pairs events are scored by master-points, but we sometimes forget that at the table.

	If we assess that we’ve already got a good master-point score on a board, we don’t risk losing most of it simply to gain a slight mprovement.

	There’s no certainty in bidding at bridge, so we aim to keep the odds on our side.

	We take actions playing pairs that would have us drummed out of a team or banned from rubber bridge.