These convention cards must be available at the table for inspection and consultation by the opponents. Bridge enthusiasts who regularly play with several different partners often have different convention cards for each partner, depending on personal preferences and familiarity with the conventions.
The partners’ convention cards must be exactly the same. For example, a 2 Clubs bid most often does NOT mean that the player using this bid has a good Club suit and wants to play a contract with Clubs as trump.Īll players entering tournaments sponsored by the American Contract Bridge League (ACBL) or the American Bridge Association (ABA) must have a “convention card” filled out. These bridge bidding conventions are frequently named after the people who invented them.
If you only knew every card your partner had in his/her hand, you might be able to come to a better fit for a contract (although you still wouldn’t know how the missing cards are distributed among your opponents). There are literally thousands of bridge bidding conventions around that attempt to get to a more perfect communication between partners about the nature of their hands.
