How to Use no-trump in a Sentence
no-trump
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Your partner opens one no-trump, 15-17.
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Deb Harvell,
Arkansas Online,
24 Aug. 2025
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Two no-trump shows some interest in game and asks about partner's second suit as well as his strength.
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Deb Harvell,
Arkansas Online,
28 Sep. 2025
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One way to reduce the ambiguity is to use a jump to three no-trump as a shapely raise to game, better than a preemptive hand.
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Deb Harvell,
Arkansas Online,
12 Oct. 2025
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Another factor is whether your partnership's no-trump range is a strict 15-17 or includes good 14-counts.
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Deb Harvell,
Arkansas Online,
12 Oct. 2025
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In my book, with a worthless doubleton in one suit, only an amateur would open one no-trump (even with 17 high-card points) unless his partner understood that such a bid might be to show HCPs only.
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Deb Harvell,
Arkansas Online,
24 Aug. 2025
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