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Are you ready for the next 25 conventions?

If you're comfortable with the material in Barbara Seagram's best-selling first book, then you're ready to move on to the more sophisticated bidding gadgets in this one. Even if you don't want to add all these to your own system, you need to be familiar with them because you'll find your opponents using them. Once again, each convention is clearly and simply explained, and you'll see how it fits into any standard bidding system if you decide to use it. Each chapter includes a helpful summary of the key points and a quiz with full explanations of the answers.

CONVENTIONS:
- Ace-and-king (Italian) cuebidding
- Bergen Raises
- Cappelletti
- D.O.N.T.
- DOPI, ROPI and DEPO
- Exclusion Blackwood
- Fit-showing Jumps
- Flannery
- Forcing 1NT
- Four-suit transfers
- Gambling 3NT
- Ingberman
- Inverted Minor Raises
- Leaping Michaels
- Multi Two Diamonds
- Namyats
- Pick-a-slam 5NT
- Puppet Stayman
- Responding to Three-bids
- Snapdragon Doubles
- SOS and other Redoubles
- Stayman continuations
- Support Doubles
- Unusual over Unusual
- Weak Jump Shifts

Barbara Seagram owns and manages one of the largest bridge schools in Toronto, where she teaches hundreds of students every year to enjoy bridge. She has been awarded 'master teacher' status by the American Bridge Teachers Association. Her other books include 25 Bridge Conventions You Should Know, 25 Ways to Compete in the Bidding and Pocket Guide to Bridge.

David Bird is the author of more than fifty previous books, including the award-winning Bridge Technique Series (with Marc Smith), 25 Ways to Take More Tricks as Declarer (with Barbara Seagram) and 25 Bridge Myths Exposed. He writes two newspaper columns, and his work appears regularly in numerous bridge magazines throughout the world.

"The book is written for beginners or those who haven't played very long and starts from the beginning with how you finesse, ruff your losers, establish suits or discard losers. The difficulty level increases gradually, but the examples are good and the text easy to follow, even for those who haven't read bridge books before. So by the end of the book, the readers surely have grasped so much so that they have no difficulty in reading about more advanced topics like endplays, safety plays or how to keep trump control."
- Anders Wirgren, Sweden

"I like this one more than the previous one, although I would in some cases with the convention characterizations as sophisticated or elementary. This book contains many conventions that veteran tournament players either play or might play. So, the relevancy factor is high for the most likely reader. If you have a specific desire to epxand your convention repertoire, this might be the book for you. Make it a B+."
- Ron Garber

"A helpful guide to the strengths and weaknesses of 25 of the most popular special agreements between partners. Each is clearly described, with a reasonable complete discussion of how to handle it in both competitive and noncompetitive situations. As well, each chapter discusses how using the method affects the rest of one's bidding system."
- The Bridge World

"The same outstanding format and comprehensive presentation as its award-winning predecessor."
- American Bridge Teachers Association

"A set of popular and effective conventions appropriate for intermediate and intermediate plus players - enjoyable and informed."
- Belleville Intelligencer

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