Strong Opening Bids – Acol

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What is Fourth Suit Forcing in bridge?
With this hand, Graeme illustrates how helpful fourth suit forcing can be when we know we want the auction to continue but we're not yet able to decide our best contract.
A Magic (Bridge) Trick
After an incredible auction, we find ourselves in slam with what looks like two unavoidable club losers. Luckily we have our resident magician, er... bridge teacher to make one of those losers disappear!
I don’t want to embarrass myself or ruin the game for others
We received a touching email from one of Pam's students. I imagine it expresses a feeling all of us learning how to play bridge can relate to. Please join us for a short conversation with Pam about how bridge learners can find the courage to start playing with others.
Where did everyone else find that 11th trick?
Ever feel good about how you played a hand until you see how many others found an extra trick somewhere?
Is this the craziest bridge hand you’ve ever seen?
Pam Livingston played this hand recently against the robots on BBO. Her (robot) partner bid clubs twice but left her in 3NT. West is about to lay down their opening lead. What would you expect North to have?

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