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Long Suit Distribution Points (LSDP)
The contract you can bid up to is decided by the points you and your partner hold. There are two different techniques used for counting your distribution points. The first you use when you have no idea what your partner’s hand contains is using extra length over and above 4 cards in a suit.
It is called ‘Long Suits distribution points’ (LSDP for short) to calculate distribution points (LSDP’s).
In Lesson 4 we counted your HCPHigh Card Points (HCP) Honour cards (the Ace (A) the King (K) the Queen (Q) the Jack (J) and the Ten (10) in each suit, each of these cards is has a different points value called HCP = High Card Points. There are a total of 40 points in the entire pack of card... More.
Now we use the number of cards above and beyond a 4 card holding in each suit to give you extra
points. These are called distribution pointsStands for Distribution points
To assist with the bidding process, the high card point count system is supplemented by the allocation of points for unbalanced or shapely hands using additional simple point systems. You can evaluate two components either the... More (DP for short).
When you are in this situation it is known as ‘without a fit’ – if you have more than four cards in a suit you give yourself 1 point for each card over and above the first 4 in any suit holding in your hand.
To assist with the bidding process, the high card point count system is supplemented by the allocation of points for unbalanced or shapely hands using additional simple point systems. You can evaluate two components either the... More (DP for short).
When you are in this situation it is known as ‘without a fit’ – if you have more than four cards in a suit you give yourself 1 point for each card over and above the first 4 in any suit holding in your hand.
How to count your Long Suit distribution points.
To calculate your DP’s you must add an additional 1 point for each 5-card suit and an extra 1 point for each additional card in the same suit. Distribution points are added to your HCP.NB: In the next lesson we introduce ‘short suit distribution pointsShort suit distribution points are added for voids, singletons and doubletons after finding a fit with partner Do not calculate long suit distribution points and short suit distribution points for the same hand at the same time A void is worth 5 extra points A... More.
Long and short suit points cannot be combined together at the same time, use only one or the other when evaluating your hand.
Long and short suit points cannot be combined together at the same time, use only one or the other when evaluating your hand.
Play a Game of Bridge with Guided Bidding
Click on the link below titled “Practice this Lesson – with full Commentary” to play a game of Bridge. The Game engine will make all the bids for you starting as soon as the game screen has loaded – you only need to click on the cards to play.
Instant Progress Quiz – Check the correct answer
Your Hand
Exercise: Calculate the distributional points on this hand
- ♠ A K 9 8 7 5
- ♥ A K 10 8 6
- ♦2
- ♣4
This counting is performed before you know anything about partners suit holdings.
Responses
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I am totally confused on this lesson. If I am the dummy why can’t I see my partner’s hand? Why isn’t partner playing my hand?
It says opposition bid 3 H and yet I win the bidding with 3 C?
Next it says I open with a 2 C bid. Not a word about HCDP which I thought was the purpose of this lesson.
what is X take out double and how can I make it
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I tried to follow the commentary but get lost after it says loss the heart and diamonds…. If I lose my last heart, EW comes back with the HQ. If I trump it and continue the best I scored was 9 tricks, which is over game. but the commentary says you can win 10?????
I have no idea what is going on here. Took me half an hour to go off and find out what doubles were. And then the hint is different from what you should bid? Confusing.
Since you only have 1diamond and 1spade do you get a point each for them?
-the opposition compete and bid 3H (so irritating!)
The completion only bid 2H in practice game bidding.