How to Use no-trump in a Sentence

no-trump

adjective
  • Your partner opens one no-trump, 15-17.
    — Deb Harvell, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2025
  • Two no-trump shows some interest in game and asks about partner's second suit as well as his strength.
    — Deb Harvell, Arkansas Online, 28 Sep. 2025
  • 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.
    — Deb Harvell, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2025
  • Another factor is whether your partnership's no-trump range is a strict 15-17 or includes good 14-counts.
    — Deb Harvell, Arkansas Online, 12 Oct. 2025
  • 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.
    — Deb Harvell, Arkansas Online, 24 Aug. 2025

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