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A Bridge Bidding Convention
Sometimes in bridge it is nescessery to bid to inform your partner of a very bad hand, a yarborough or a neer yarborough. In this instance it is usefull to bid to stop your partner from bidding. The only instances in which this should be used is when you have four or less points, three or less cards in your partners suit and no points in your partners suit. The Wooff overcall is named after the admirable Benjamin Wooff, who devised this particular convention after a series of very poor hands in a tournament. To do a Wooff Overcall you simply bid one higher than your partner after any suited bid at the one level after a pass from your opponent, note that this must be allerted. eg.: North: One Diamond. East: Pass. South: One Heart. North: Alert. Ect...

If you want to naturally bid the suit one up from your partners bid you must take it to the two level and "stop" it, this also must be allerted, eg.: North: One Diamond. East: Pass. South: Stop. Two Hearts. North: Alert. Ect...

Other Conventions That The Wooff Overcall Works With, And The Correct Responses To Them If You Would Normally Use A Wooff Overcall:
-Strong Two's. Bid your longest suit. -Weak Two Overcall's. This way the Wooff Overcall does not interfeer with your bidding. -Stayman, it just confuses you oppponents if you have already had the need for a Wooff Overcall. Pass -Strong NT's. Same as Strong Two's if you have two to four points, of you haev less than two points, pass.