The Complete Book on Takeout Doubles

This book covers a wide range of topics about takeout doubles, including what sort of hand should make a double because it is too strong for an overcall, responding to takeout doubles, cuebids in response to a takeout double, responsive doubles, and other takeout-double topics.

Especially check out Chapter Twelve: Continuing with 18+ Points but only Three-card Support. This is the way many experts now play, and it is not available in any other book. I am writing an article (which will be available free at 3nt.xyz) with an overview and extension of these and related ideas. This is a great book!

Product as described and arrived on time. Highly recommend.

Mike Lawrence is my favorite bridge writer and probably makes every players list of the best writer for those with less than 2500 master points. He knows what he is talking about and, just as important, makes if fun to learn with an enjoyble style of writing. Buy his books - they are all "keepers". His two software programs, "Conventions" and "Two over One" are just super for beginner and intermediate players.

Very detailed and in depth analysis of take out doubles and responses in a standard American environment.I don't know how one would fare in the international arena with these methods.

I'm reading this book as we speak and I must say that I really like the revised edition. Mike has always been a favorite of mine and this revision just makes him my favoriter....(such a word???)

Excellent book written with insight and humor.

After the cover from Mike Lawrence's book is another cover for a 30-page epamphlet by Patty Tucker. Can you give negative stars?

Bridge is difficult... that's a given. This book helps to understand one of many tricky subjects.I have gone back to and will continue to go back to this book many times

I cannot believe Amazon are selling this little pamphlet for the money it certainly is not a complete anything just some basic information 7 examples and adverts way beyond disappointing

A very extensive guide covering virtually every take out double situation you can face. Easy to find the situation if it happens at the table and you want to check his thoughts on the situation

Libro utilissimo per giocatori di livello intermedio (diciamo meno di 5 punti piazzamento) come me, ma potrebbe rivelarsi utile anche a un professionista che voglia aggiustare o confrontare certe sequenze licitative. Il titolo a mio parere non rispecchia, tuttavia, l'esatto contenuto. Alcune sequenze che ritengo ad alta frequenza come ad esempio apertura uno a colore del nostro LHO, contro del partner e qualcosa del RHO che non sia appoggio nel palo di apertura. L'autore non sviluppa molto questa sequenza, ma rimanda ad un altro libro: 'doubles new meaning for an old bid'.Per aiutare alla scelta il consumatore penso sia utile riportare qui sotto l'indice del libro, ma dato che è una discreta seccatura non lo ricopio integralmente con il titolo dei sotto e dei sotto sotto paragrafi. Metto solo il titolo dei capitoli e dei paragrafi, abbiate pietà di me:IntroductionChapter one: Four convention to help you with your takeout doubles 1. The Michaels cuebid 2. The Responsive Double -The responsive doubles when partner doubles and they raise - The responsive doubles when parner overcalls 3. Equal Level Conversion (ELC) 4. Lebensohl (NON QUELLA CLASSICA dopo apertura 1NT del nostro compagno e intervento avversario, ma dopo apertura a livello 2 debole delgi avversari e noi che interveniamo)Chapter two: The takeout double 1. Introduction to the takeout double in general 2. RHO opens with a one-bid: what variation are allowed in the takeout doubler's strenght? 3. What variation are allowed in the takeout doubler's shape?Chapter three: how strong do you have to be to double and bid again? 1. how strong do you have to be to double and then bid a suit? 2. how strong do you have to be to double and then bid notrump? 3 You double and then double again without hearing a bid from partnerChapter fuor: the takeout double when both opponents have bid 1. LHO opens and RHO bids a suit at the one-level 2. LHO opens and RHO bids 1NT 3. LHO opens and RHO raises 4. LHO opens and RHO makes a two-over-one Response 5. When LHO opensin third or fourth seat and his partner uses DruryChapter five: delayed doubles - takeout or penalty? 1. your RHO opens and rebids his suit after a one-level Response by his partner. You double. What does it mean? 2. What does it mean if you pass and double when RHO raises his partner? 3. What does it mean if you pass and double when RHO rebids 1NT? 4. What does it mean if you pass and double when RHO rebids a new suit? 5. What does it mean if you pass and double when RHO reverses or jump shifts? 6. You open, the opponents bid, and you double 7. Your opponents opens and you overcall. If you double later, is it for penalty or takeout?Chapter six: responding when partner doubles a one-bid 1. How should you respond to partner's overcall? 2. Responding to the tekeout doubles when RHO passesChapter seven: Responding to a takeout double when RHO raises 1. Bidding when RHO raises opener 2. The responsive doubles: a tool you can use after partner makes a takeout double 3. RHO raises over your partner's takeout doubles 4. Bidding when your opponents use the Jordan 2NT raise 5. The jump in a new suit after RHO raises 6. The 2NT and 3NT bids after RHO raisesChapter eight: Responding to a takeout double when RHO bids but does not raise 1. RHO bids a new suit at the one-level 2. RHO bids a new suit at the two-level 3. RHO bids 1NT over your partner's double 4. Redoubles over your partner's takeout doubleChapter nine: RHO opens and LHO bids something, partner doubles for takeout 1. RHO bids a suit and LHO bids a suit. Partner doubles 2. RHO bids a suit and LHO bids 1NT. Partner doubles 3. RHO bids a suit and LHO raises. Partner doubles 4. RHO bids a suit and LHO makes a two over one bid. Partner doubles or bids a suitChapter ten: A number of situations involving delayed doubles and some judgment 1. What is partner doing?Chapter eleven: Doubler's continuation: common bidding situations 1. Partner passes the double for penalty 2. LHO bids and your partner passes 3. You double, LHO passes 4. you double and LHO redoubles 5. You double, LHO bids, and partner does somethingChapter twelve: continuing with 18 or more points but only three-card support for partner (ATTENZIONE: teoricamente giocando la convenzione ELC che l'autore propone ci si potrebbe ritrovare a d avere 18 o più punti con solo due carte di appoggio. Questo caso non è trattato nel libro) 1. How do you show 18 or more support points with three-card support?Chapter thirteen: Irksome auctions and agreements to help with them 1. Auctions where your side doubles an opponent and someone redoubles 2.They bid and raise. Your partner doubles. Opener redoubles 3. RHO opens with a preempt and you double for takeout. LHO redoubles, announcing a big hand. This is passed to you 4. You use Michaels or the unusual Notrump and then make a double 5. You preempt, they bid, and your partner passes. Can you bid again?Chapter fourtenn: responder's second bid after partner's takeout double 1.Responder makes a simple response to a takeout double 2. Responder makes a jump response to a takeout double 3. responder makes a cuebid in a response to a takeout doublesChapter fifteen: the opponents open with a preempt 1. The rule of 7 2. When RHO opens with a weak two-bid 3. When LHO opens with a weak two-bid and RHO bids 4. When RHO opens with a three-bid 5. When they open with 4♣ or 4♦ 6. When they open with 4♥ or 4♠Chapter sixteen: LHO opens with a weak two bid and partner doubles 1. Standard bidding vs. Lebensohl 2. The lebensohl convention 3. ExamplesChapter seventeen: LHO opens with a weak three-bid and partner doubles 1. When they open with a weak three-bid and partner doublesChapter eighteen : some new science versus preempts 1. Leaping Michaels against weak two-bids in a major 2. Leaping Michaels against weak three-bids in a major 3. Leaping Michaels when they respond 2NT to a major-suit 4. Weak two-bidChapter nineteen: balancing doubles 1. Introduction to balancing doubles 2. The balancing double when LHO opens and RHO passes 3. The balancing double when the opponents bid and raise 4. The balancing double when the opponents bid and do not find a fit 5. The reopening penalty doubles when the opponents end up in 1NT 6. the balancing takeout doubles when LHO opens with a preempt and RHO passesFine indice. Il libro ha 311 pagine

Wonderful insights and analysis as well as recommendations in different situations during Competition Bidding in Bridge.The examples given fortify the usefulness of the recommendations made.