A growing library of bridge videos — from your very first opening bid to the kind of hand you'll want to tell partner about on the way home. Same Lorna you'd get at the table, only you can pause her, rewind, and watch in your slippers.
That borderline hand with shape but not quite enough points — the Rule of 20 helps you decide. Add your high card points to the length of your two longest suits, check for two quick tricks, and you've got a tool that turns hesitation into a clear opening bid. Lorna walks you through four hands so you'll know exactly when to bid and when to pass.
Five card or six, bust or game-going, balanced or shapely — your response changes for each. Lorna walks the full ladder: pass, relay, invite, force, and a few "exceptional sevens" where judgment beats the rules. Partnership agreements made plain, with five hands to test what you've learned.
Partner opens, you've got two-to-six points and a six-card suit — jump. The weak jump shift describes a bad hand and steals space from the opponents in one move. Lorna covers the parameters, the seven-card extension to the three level, and works through example hands so you'll know exactly when this beautifully descriptive bid is yours to make.
Lorna covers when to overcall a suit, when 1NT fits, when a takeout double promises three in every unbid suit, and when "pass for now, not forever" is the smart play.
Your partner's 1NT just got overcalled — and most pairs don't have a clean answer. Lorna walks you through hers: drop dead at the two level, game-force at the three, double to claim the hand, and cue-bid their suit as Stayman. Five hands cover the full ladder, with a clear-eyed look at why stolen-bid doubles cost more than they save.
Some bids from your partner are a question you have to answer — others let you stop and rest. Lorna sorts the auction into forcing and non-forcing, covers the courtesy bids that keep partnerships honest, and shares her old mentor's rule for when you're not sure: when in doubt, bid, don't pass.