Standard American Yellow Card opening bids, rebids

Standard American Bidding Convention Cards:

Left side of ACBL bidding sheet (LARGE)

Right side of ACBL bidding sheet (LARGE)

Left side of ACBL bidding sheet filled in (LARGE)

Right side of ACBL bidding sheet filled in (LARGE)

Left side of ACBL bidding sheet (small)

Right side of ACBL bidding sheet (small)

Left side of ACBL bidding sheet filled in (small)

Right side of ACBL bidding sheet filled in (small)

Opening Leads and defensive signals

Standard opening leads
If your partner has bid a suit, lead your highest card in that suit.

If you have AKx in a side suit, lead the K, then if partner signals encouragement lead the A.

From a suit with touching honors lead the highest card, i.e. K from KQJ.

Lead the highest card of an interior sequence, i.e. T from AQT98.

When a 3 or 4 card suit has only one honor, lead a low card from that suit.

From a worthless suit lead the highest card or fourth from the highest.

Lead the higher card from a doubleton.

Lead a singleton if you need to ruff that suit later.
Third hand play on opening lead: High encourages, low discourages. For count, high-low equals even, low-high equals odd.

 
Anthony Marsh