Trial bids in bridge help us decide whether or not to bid game. Making game in bridge isn't always just about having enough points. Honours working together can make a break a hand.
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Hi everyone, we open this 1♥ of course. North bids 2♥, and have we got enough to go to game? Well, it depends a little bit on North's holding in the minor suits. So just imagine North has got the ♣Q, that card would be useless to us.
But imagine North's got the ♦Q, or even the ♦A. Those cards would be really good because they would help us establish the diamond suit. So what I can do here is use a bidding convention called a trial bid.
3♦ says hearts are definitely trumps, but tell me if you've got anything useful in diamonds, and it looks like North has because North has bid 4♥.
Look at that lovely ♦Q. That's going to make it so easy for us to set up that diamond suit.
So pretty easy one to play, we can just draw trumps and knock out the ♦A. We make ten tricks.