Better Bidding with Bergen Vol II, Competitive Auctions

You must be able to contest the auction, and deal with the opponents interference. Good coverage and good examples.

Marty Bergen got in trouble with the American Contract Bridge League in 1984 for his then-outlandish bidding style and began publishing his methods shortly thereafter. Since Better Bidding With Bergen appeared in two volumes in 1985-1986, many of these methods have become commonplace. Even if you do not play Bergen's aggressive conventions and treatments yourself, you must know them, simply because many of your most successful opponents will be using them against you. Of the two, this second volume of the set, which perhaps should have been titled How to Distort Your Opponents' Auctions, contains more useful information.