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    • Blackwood
      Occasionally a board comes along that everyone should bid to a grand slam. Today’s hand is like that. But sometimes people over complicate matters! 4NT Blackwood is of course the most famous slam going convention. In its simplest original form it was … Continue reading →
    • Saturday August 29th: Rebids and Decision Making. Weak and Strong Rebids
      Rebidding to Show Balanced or Unbalanced Hands. Showing Your Points More Accurately. Reverses, Strong Jump Shifts and Game/Slam Decisions. Continue reading →
    • Pre-empts make bidding harder – but play easier!
      A pre-empt forces you to start bidding at a much higher level which naturally makes it harder to reach the best contract. On the other hand, a pre-empt can often help declarer figure out the shape of the hand and how to … Continue reading →
    • 2026 SBC GNOT Club Qualifier results
      The Grand National Open Teams (GNOT) is the only national event that a club can run to offer gold masterpoints to its players. We ran the Club Qualifier in June, the event was well supported by our competitive players. After 3 sessions, … Continue reading →
    • Is there any chance left?
      Sometimes your contract looks completely hopeless. At that point you have to consider is there any chance left? Today’s hand was an example where there was – but it’s not that easy to see. It’s also so obscure that it’s questionable whether … Continue reading →
    • Stoppers and Lebensohl
      On some hands it’s essential to play no-trumps from one direction. Today’s hand (taken from the Newcastle Congress played the weekend of June 13-14) is an example. 3NT played by West is hopeless because North can lead ♦Q and the defence will … Continue reading →
    • SBC Most Improved Player of the Month May
      Somehow everybody dressed up to the occasion when we announced The Most Improved Player of the Month in May (of course we took the chance to tease them 😉)! Orsolina Aroney who is on committee and has been worked extremely hard for … Continue reading →