Saturday Seminar - The importance of bidding discipline in forming a strong partnership with Robert Procter

The session will start at 10.00 and is suitable for players at all levels.

Robert is one of Oxfordshire’s top players. He is a strong and enthusiastic player who has many original thoughts on how to improve our approach to the game. This will be an entertaining and informative session.

This seminar will be about bidding discipline. It will cover several aspects of bidding:

• the extent of the agreements a pair should choose to have, often depending
on their assessment of the risk of not remembering them;

• the difference between being brave and foolhardy;

• similarly the difference between being prudent and cowardly;

• the extent to which you and your partner adhere to your system at all times;

• what you do if you know you have chosen a bid which your hand doesn’t
match;

• whether you should follow what the experts say.

Robert will providing plenty of examples of bidding dilemmas for those present to debate. He will encourage some self-analysis as to what sort of attitude to bidding discipline each participant has and what they might go away and discuss with a regular partner.