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Explains the principles of standard American bidding, and discusses point-count valuation, openings, responses, conventions and overcalling strategy

An extensive explanation of how to improve your slam bidding. The first section deals at length with the critically important topic of hand evaluation. Not only will this help your slam bidding, but it will also drastically improve your bidding judgment in other auctions.

This book breaks ground in an attempt to furnish superior tools which the author believes will solve problems which have been previously ignored.

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Regina Jennings Is a Rising Voice in Humorous Historical RomanceAfter helping her grandfather at their Boston auction house, Miranda Wimplegate discovers she's accidentally sold a powerful family's prized portrait to an anonymous bidder. Desperate to appease the furious family, her grandfather tracks it to the Missouri Ozarks and makes an outlandish offer to buy the local auction house if they promise not to sell anything until he arrives.Upon their arrival, however, they discover their new business doesn't deal in fine antiques, but in livestock. And its manager, ruggedly handsome Wyatt Ballentine, is frustrated to discover his fussy new bosses don't know a thing about the business he's single-handedly kept afloat. Faced with more cattle than they can count--but no mysterious painting--Miranda and Wyatt form an unlikely but charged partnership to try and salvage a bad situation getting worse.

An outgrowth of his continuing column on bidding in the ACBL Bulletin.

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Shows you how to paint pictures and visualize partner's hand.

Provides information on determining the optimum combination of price, cost, and volume that will help the contractor achieve a profitable contracting operation. Discusses simple, straightforward, and novel management decision-making techniques that show the contractor how to select the most profitable jobs, how to analyze them, and how to bid them for the greatest possible profit. Emphasizes the area between the estimated direct job cost and the bid price. Also covered: cost estimating and control; overhead cost and breakeven analysis; bid analysis; profit analysis; risk evaluation.

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Max Hardy follows his first volume, Standard Bridge Bidding for the 21st Century, with his comprehensive second volume, including contributions by expert players Grant Baze, Marty Bergen, Fred Hamilton, Jeff Meckstroth, Mike Passell, and Eddie Wold.

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The second volume concentrates on competitive bidding and bids to show fits for partner.

Bidding contests for sporting and cultural events are attracting increasing media and public attention. Yet, despite the cost, size and scale of these bidding contests, relatively little academic attention has been paid to the strategies and tactics used to develop successful bids. Event Bidding: Politics, Persuasion and Resistance develops a comprehensive, critical understanding of the bidding processes surrounding the award of major peripatetic events. This is achieved by drawing together existing knowledge on the subject of event bidding, combining this with historical and contemporary examples to enable a critical commentary on the bidding process itself and the struggle for power that it represents. The text draws on case studies of ‘mega events’ including the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games as well as a range of smaller peripatetic events from across the world to analyse the bidding process and some of the increasingly controversial issues which emerge during often lengthy and expensive bid campaigns. Finally, the text reflects on a range of critical issues of contemporary significance in bidding contests, including the growing ethical and governance issues surrounding the development and award of events as well as the impact of growing oppositional movements surrounding each contest. This timely volume brings theory and practice together in one place to produce a critical appraisal of a phenomenon with a relatively recent history and is particularly suitable for students, researchers and academics of sports, events, tourism and related subject fields focusing on the strategic and political dimensions of major events.

Bidding contests for sporting and cultural events are attracting increasing media and public attention. Yet, despite the cost, size and scale of these bidding contests, relatively little academic attention has been paid to the strategies and tactics used to develop successful bids. Event Bidding: Politics, Persuasion and Resistance develops a comprehensive, critical understanding of the bidding processes surrounding the award of major peripatetic events. This is achieved by drawing together existing knowledge on the subject of event bidding, combining this with historical and contemporary examples to enable a critical commentary on the bidding process itself and the struggle for power that it represents. The text draws on case studies of ‘mega events’ including the FIFA World Cup and the Olympic Games as well as a range of smaller peripatetic events from across the world to analyse the bidding process and some of the increasingly controversial issues which emerge during often lengthy and expensive bid campaigns. Finally, the text reflects on a range of critical issues of contemporary significance in bidding contests, including the growing ethical and governance issues surrounding the development and award of events as well as the impact of growing oppositional movements surrounding each contest. This timely volume brings theory and practice together in one place to produce a critical appraisal of a phenomenon with a relatively recent history and is particularly suitable for students, researchers and academics of sports, events, tourism and related subject fields focusing on the strategic and political dimensions of major events.

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This book is the companion workbook to Slam Bidding Made Easier - Marty's new book on slam bidding. It will be an invaluable aid to players and partnerships alike. Conventions discussed include Control-bidding, Jacoby 2NT, 1430, and Splinter Bids. In addition, the section on evaluating your hand to judge slam potential is guaranteed to improve your bidding.

An extensive explanation of how to improve your slam bidding. The first section deals at length with the critically important topic of hand evaluation. Not only will this help your slam bidding, but it will also drastically improve your bidding judgment in other auctions.

The first bid in a bridge auction impacts the bidding, play and defense of the entire deal. There's more to valuing a hand than adding up the high-card and length points. This book shares tips to improve your judgment and help you make better decisions when you are in a position to open. It includes the Guidelines of 15 and 20, light opening bids, pre-emptive bids and strong 2 Clubs, and more.