An exciting and new audio-visual and interactive teaching method from Marty Bergen.
Marty's audio visual format significantly enhances your learning experience:
The combination of voice and visual effects makes it easier to understand what Marty is teaching.
The lesson is interactive, so students "learn by doing."
You can proceed at your own pace.
You can play and replay all or some of the lesson whenever you choose as many times as you like.
The lesson includes a written easy to read transcript for you to study.
The lesson contains several hours of extensive material.
The lesson is designed to work on most popular computers and browsers, including Windows, Mac, and iPad.
Approximate running time of this lesson: 110 minutes.
In this lesson:
Deciding whether or not you have a slam is not easy. Even experts do NOT shine in this area. However, if you can set the trump suit early in the auction, that is a very good way to begin. And if you can do so at an economical level, youre off to a good start.
A Jacoby 2NT response to opener's major accomplishes all of the above. This is a convention that should be part of every pair's repertoire. This convention is one of the keys to good slam bidding.
In this lesson, Marty will discuss:
- How to decide whether to respond 2NT.
- The correct way for opener to re-evaluate after 2NT.
- How opener can easily show a void
- How to know when to forget about slam.
- The lowdown on opener's jump to the 4-level
- Bergen-Cohen philosophy for Jacoby 2NT auctions
- What every partnership must discuss
Here is an example of what Marty will discuss in the lesson:
You hold ♠A5 ♥AJ54 ♦6 ♣A98754
Partner opens 1♥ and your RHO passes. What is your call?
Some players would make a splinter bid of 4♦. I would not. By the time I add points for the three aces and awesome distribution, this hand exceeds the 13-16 dummy points I recommend for responder here. If I responded 4♦ and opener bid 4♥, I would be afraid that a pass could miss a cold slam.
Some would respond 2♣. I would not. When I have 4-card support for opener's major, I always support him at my first turn. Therefore, I would respond 2NT.