These hands have easy rebids. A suit that has not previously been bid in the auction. Typically, the cuebid of an opponent's minor-suit opening shows both major suits and the cuebid of an opponent's major suit opening shows the other major suit and an unspecified minor suit. Using Lebensohl, you would start by bidding 2NT. Valuation points for the trick-taking potential of long suits, or short suits in a trump contract. International Match Points. The lowest level at which the auction can start. Notrump Opening Bids. A play technique for winning a trick with a low trump when an opponent has a higher trump. A popular guideline when playing third to a trick is to play as high as necessary to win the trick for the partnership. A convention used in response to a notrump opening bid when holding a five-card or longer major suit. When we open in a minor suit, we may still find an 8 card major suit fit. A suit that is lower on the Bidding Ladder than another suit. Often presented as a problem on how to make, or defeat, a contract. The modern form of the game which awards bonuses for bidding and making contracts. A jump overcall is typically used as a preemptive bid. Playing the trump suit until the opponents have none left. Bid suit at appropriate level; can "waffle" if room; Does not promise another bid and opponent overcalls If SI, control bid, splinter, ace-ask 2. AQJ983 Holding up with the Ace with both the Ace and Jack when left-hand opponent leads the King. K64 Play or discard a high card that is preventing taking winners in a suit. It's used when the partnership has enough strength for slam but wants to assure that two aces aren't missing. show answer. A form scoring typically used in team games. It doesn't matter if you bid game or a partial on 24. Play a trump to a trick when holding no cards in the suit led. With no four-card major suit, opener bids 2. A balancing overcall may be made with fewer values than in the direct position. The order in which bids can be made, starting with 1 and ending with 7NT. anakeesta photo memories . The 52 cards used in a game of bridge. This is not a popular agreement among most experienced players. When defending against a suit contract, it is usually a poor idea to lead away from an ace in a side suit, since you may never get a trick with your ace if declarer has a singleton. . Sequence. A contract with no trump suit. Remember you are always trying to push your opponents to the highest level contract. The conventional use of a responder's bid of a previously unbid minor suit as artificial and forcing after opener's 1NT rebid. Also called Hamilton. The conventional use of a jump to 2NT by responder after opener's suit has been doubled for takeout to show a limit raise or better in opener's suit. Having the same conventional agreement in a competitive auction as in a non-competitive auction. Partner raises you to 4 . A5 The idea is to make declarer use two honors to capture one of yours. Other bids by responder are natural and NOT Forcing; 2-level suit bids are typically weak, 2NT and 3-level bids are invitational. Cuebids (Definitions) 3NT is an important goal in Bridge. However, East is going to make some decision, so he has to make some assumptions (e.g. A raise of partner's suit from the one level to the three level that invites partner to continue to game. AKJ2 For example, 2 would be a jump overcall over an opening bid of 1 because it is only necessary to bid 1. A holding that is likely to prevent the opponents from immediately taking all the tricks in the suit. partner dutifully bids 2 . Sometimes used to refer to the full deal of all four hands. People who insist on specific numbers of point in explanations will also call for redress when the actual count of the hand (without adjustments for judgement) does not match the numbers given. You can decide whether you want to show your major and guess how good partner's hand is, or make an invitational 2NT bid and hide your 5-card major. An extreme example would be something like A432K43232A32. Then the above sequences can be used for more difficult hand types instead. show answer, AJ932 The card led to the first trick. When you have other invitational bids available, a cuebid is a game force. Bidding the cheapest of two or more four-card suits. show answer, K98532 There are other rebids other than a jump to show invitational hands with HCP's. Bid a 3 card minor for instance with invitational values in HCP's but lacking good suit quality. A common example is after a simple rebid: As two hearts is limited three hearts is invitational and non forcing. This 2 rebid is not a reverse, because Responder bid on the two level. An artificial 2 response to an opening bid of 1 or 1 in third or fourth position asking whether opener has a light opening bid. A bid that does not necessarily promise length or strength in the suit bid. Make a bid, other than pass, when partner has previously made a bid. So it would be a reverse for Opener to rebid hearts. If the partnership is interested in a grand slam, a subsequent bid of 5 asks for the number of kings held by partner. This is a perfectly good auction, but there is a risk. that partner possesses a fifth spade, based on the fact that the spade game is the most probable one). A jump by opener when replying to a Jacoby transfer bid, showing four-card support for responder's major and maximum strength. The various bids which make up the auction. Usually used in competitive auctions. By opener (16-18 pts. The number of tricks the partnership contracts to take when it makes a bid. An artificial response of 2 to an opening bid of 1NT, asking if opener has a four-card major suit. Q An ace or void is a 'first-round' control; a king or a singleton is a 'second-round' control. Also, any play which reduces the risk of being defeated in the contract, even at the sacrifice of one or more overtricks. Declarer must often plan to be in the appropriate hand to take or establish winners. A similar convention to Jacoby transfers. A suit in which high cards in partner's hand would be useful. When one partner makes a forcing bid, the other partner must keep the bidding open regardless of how rotten he thinks his hand is. The main examples used in Acol are the opening bids 1NT and 2NT, which show 12 - 14 HCP and 20 - 22 HCP respectively. W: 2NT E: 4NT 11-12 points. So maybe there's a 4-4 fit. How does this violate our Community Guidelines? Since the one spade bidder may hold no HCPs and two spades would confirm no interest the three spade bid must be invitational (about 6-8) and can be passed. An undertaking to win at least a specified number of tricks in a specified denomination. A bridge event in which every partnership is composed of one player of each sex. After 1 - 2 your rebid is? This technique can be useful in many situations. A redouble asking partner to rescue the partnership from a doubled contract. The number of cards held in a suit. In an auction with two cuebids available, the higher cuebid corresponds to the partnership's higher-ranking suit, the lower cuebid corresponds to the partnership's lower-ranking suit. seem to have clouded this issue and many, at least of those playing online tournaments, consider some of these bids forcing. The two players seated opposite each other at the table. A scoring format in team play in which each deal is scored as 1 point for a win, 1/2 point for a tie, and 0 for a loss. Deliberately overbidding to a contract that is not expected to make in the hope that the penalty will be less than the value of the opponents' potential contract. Copyright 2010-2023 by Ralph Welton. Invites openers to bid 6NT if he has 14 points. A card which can be led to a winner (entry) in the opposite hand. They ask each other questions like, 'Do you play reverses?' Succeed in taking enough tricks to fulfill a contract. Don't you just love bridge? Compare tricks required to sure tricks available. For example: AJ109, Q1098. For example: KQJ10, QJ105. A deal on which both sides can make a partscore contract. KJT62 A printed card placed on the table that indicates the player directions and instructions for the movement in duplicate games. An expression meaning that a bid is followed by three passes, ending the auction. A bid that is less than that warranted by the strength of the hand. If opened, there is a solid suit with no . A play technique in which cards are ruffed in both partnership hands, thus using the trumps separately. The dealer is the player who starts the bidding even if its a pass. (our 12-15 + Partner's 6-9 = 18-24), But with the in-between 16-17, we don't have enough information to make the game-or-partial decision ourselves. A double made with the expectation of defeating the opponents' contract. If the opponents have a partscore when a non-vulnerable game is made in rubber bridge, the partscore is cut off and doesn't count toward the next game. It consists of three steps: 1) Goal. The use of a double in a competitive auction as a game try when no other call is available. Responder can relay with 2 or start a Game Force with 2. If the total is 20 or more, consider opening the bidding. Bidding 5-4 and 4-5 Hands Without Smolen. When your side is non-vulnerable and the opponents are vulnerable. If Responder wants to choose Opener's first suit, she has to bid on the three level. We then clarify both the strength of our hand and the length of our suits through specific sequences of rebids. A trick which might be lost to the opponents. A combined holding of eight or more cards will usually be a suitable trump fit. A jump overcall used as a preemptive bid. KQ4 Four numbers separated by equal signs (=) denotes an exact suit distribution. The undertaking by declarer's side to win at least a specific number of tricks in a specific denomination as determined by the final bid in the auction. 2) Sure Tricks. (See also Broken Sequence and Interior Sequence.). The partner of a player who makes an overcall or a takeout double. seem to have clouded this issue and many, at least of those playing online tournaments . AQ2 Also, the development of tricks through exhausting the cards the opponents hold in a suit. How am I to explain signoff and invitational bids? A defensive suit combination where a defender has to lead the second-highest card from a broken holding in order to trap declarer's high cards in the suit. A method of estimating the value of a hand during the auction, usually a combination of values for high cards and length. The second stage in declarer's plan. This rebid is called a "jump-shift". 1NT 2C is Stayman, promising some 4+ card major and asking partner to bid her 4-card major (2H or 2S) if she has one, otherwise to bid 2D. High cards and long suits that are likely to take tricks if your side loses the auction. As an opening bid or an overcall, it is usually made with a long suit and a weak hand by skipping one or more levels of the auction. Perhaps the most important concept for rebids is this: We call these two types of bids non-forcing bids (NF) and forcing bids (F). (our 16-17 + Partner's 9 = 25-26). The bonus awarded for winning the rubber when playing rubber bridge. But we still have to determine how high to bid based on the combined strength of the two hands. The partner who is in the best position to decide How High and Where the partnership belongs. To make a forcing bid, we can jump to the three level in a new suit, 3 . 1999 - 2023Bridge with Larry Cohen-by. show answer. 952 My question is: Is it regular to say "I don't know" when there is no agreed meaning for a bid? An artificial forcing bid in a suit bid by the opponents. Other sequences are incomplete desriptions, which include the message, "Don't pass yet, Partner. After 1 - 1 your rebid is? The fourth player to have the chance to make a call. A suit with lots of 'holes'where the cards are mostly not touching. An opening bid of 3NT based on the playing tricks from a long, solid suit rather than high-card points. Its purpose is to fully describe your hand both length and HCP in just one bid, and to make the opposition bid at a higher level than if you had not bid. Q865 The strong 1 club opening is assigned a minimum strength that promises 16 or more HCP, or high-card points. The play of a low card on the second round of a suit in the hope that an opponent's known high card in the suit will fall. show answer, KJ54 show answer, AJ7 The horizontal line on a rubber bridge score sheet that divides the bonuses from the trick scores. In a auction where you could have raised partner directly with an invitational jump, of course a cuebid is a game force when you support partner. Does Opener have the required strength to rebid 2? If opener bids 3, responder's only choice is to bid 3NT with a weak hand. show answer. Transfers The original pass limits the 2H call and therefore the Morehead rule would apply making the 3H call invitational but it seems few ever pass. Although drawing the defenders' trumps is usually a priority, there are several reasons why declarer may delay drawing trumps. Now what does that mean, exactly?". Three or more consecutive cards in a suit. Typically, the higher of the touching cards is led. Why are 15-17 point hands not included? The denomination in which the contract should be played. When we don't have a balanced hand, we rebid a 6+ suit (even a minor) or show a second suit. Play a higher card in the suit led, typically, when partner's card was already winning the trick. A consensus bidding system based on the preferences of North American experts. A guideline to lead the suit led by partner on gaining the lead. After 1 - 1 your rebid is? Length and strength in a suit bid by the opponents. For example, a holding of K3 by declarer with the opening lead coming from declarer's left. AJ3 A scheme of major suit responses where a jump raise to the three level is preemptive, 3 shows a limit raise, and 3 shows a constructive four-card raise. A defensive method against an opponent's 1NT opening bid (Double=One-suiter; 2=Clubs and a higher suit; 2=Diamonds and a higher suit; 2=Hearts and spades; 2=Spades). Declarer can lead dummy's K, planning to ruff if it is covered by the A, establishing dummy's Q as a winner. KQJ63 After 1 - 1N your rebid is? RAISING AN INVITATIONAL BID An area that seems to be changing in competitive bidding is that of raising an invitational bid. Keeping in mind that the negative double shows 5-25 HCP, four spades and support for a minor - Steve Robinson It seems the same principles apply. In borderline cases in fourth position, high-card points are added to the number of spades in the hand. The number of cards held in each suit by a particular player; the number of cards held in a particular suit by the partnership. A combination in which there is the possibility of finessing against either opponent for a missing card. A bid that shows length in a different suit. Points used in place of length points when valuing a hand in support of partner's suit: void, 5 points; singleton, 3 points; doubleton, 1 point. In notrump, the highest-ranking card played in the suit led wins the tricks. We do this by adding the exact points we know for our own hand to the point range Partner shows with her bid. 7 Supporting partner's suit by bidding the suit at a higher level. After 1 - 1N your rebid is? A jump in a new suit one level higher than necessary. Maybe Partner will have a doubleton to go with your six cards, and that's a fit. 1!s is 14-16 balanced or 11-15 unbalanced. An acronym for Double Even Pass Odd, a method for showing aces after interference over Blackwood. AQ87 A strong holding of two or three high cards, typically in a short suit. A87 A game-invitational action that shows a singleton or void in a side suit. Declaring from the more favorable side of the table. In standard methods, a high-low signal shows an even number of cards; a low-high signal shows an odd number. An overcall at a higher level than necessary. Spades or diamonds, because of the pointed suit symbols. Albert Morehead advanced this rule: --- any bid in a suit previously bid (by either partner) is a limited bid.. An agreement that a bid of the fourth suit is artificial and forcing; usually played as forcing to game. The suit, or notrump, specified in a bid. It is a forcing bid, hoping to get help from partner in choosing the best contract. The post may still be visible to moderators in this topic, The post will be removed from this topic completely, Community Forum Software by IP.Board 3.1.4. K87 show answer. After 1 - 1N your rebid is? For example, a raise of an opening bid of 1NT to 2NT asks opener to bid game with a maximum for the 1NT opening. One of the considerations in declarer's plan is how many tricks the opponents may be able to take if they gain the lead. 84 An invitation to bid, also called an invitation for bid or sealed bid, is a call to contractors to submit a proposal on a project for a specific product or service. This bid is a "puppet" and in this situation partner has to bid Three Clubs. After 1 - 1N your rebid is? Suppose East opens 1 and North holds the K. Similarly, a raise of 1NT to 4NT would invite opener to bid slam with a maximum. After 1 - 1 your rebid is? Since Mr. Hardy first published his 2/1 texts, other bridge professionals have advocated that jump shifts by responder be played as invitational, about 10-12 HCP and a good 5-card or 6-card suit. To draw a random card from a face-down pack of cards; to divide the deck into approximately two equal halves and place the bottom half on the top. Usually a combination of high card strength and suit length or shortness. KQ7632 You may provide an optional (required if choosing other) description of why you find this objectionable. Except when you can rebid your own suit, a two-over-one response promises game-going values. So why would Opener bid a suit where there can be no fit? I'm not finished describing what I've got.". A hand with high honors but few lower honors and intermediate cards. A device with the bids displayed on cards to allow the auction to be conducted silently. See also 'balancing position'. Your vocabulary is 15 words: 1-7, clubs, diamonds, hearts, spades, notrump, pass, double, redouble to communicate your That means we need at least 18 points to jump to game. Instead, we raise to 2NT, showing 11-12 points. Bid suit at appropriate level - 3H is stronger than 4H If SI, control bid, splinter . (our 16-17 + Partner's 7 = 23-24), And with 8-9, she continues on to 4 because the total cannot be less than 24. Bonuses and penalties are greater when a partnership is vulnerable than when it is non-vulnerable. KQJ982 There can be no 4-4 spade fit because Responder skipped over a 1 response. Posted 2011-December-16, 15:05. They don't they may never understand that point count is just a guide, and not a very good one at that. It would be better for North to become declarer so that East cannot lead a heart without giving North a trick with the K. When each member of the partnership has poor support for the long suits shown by partner and there is no eight-card or longer combined trump suit. His three spade bid says if you have a maximum, in terms of what you have already shown, then bid four spades. For example, ace=1, ace-king=2, king=1/2. Overtricks are relatively unimportant. Also called Jordan or Truscott. Invitation to Bid: What is an Invitation to Bid? In duplicate or Chicago scoring, vulnerability is assigned to each deal. Sign-off Bids North's 2 said that he was convinced that this was the best contract and demanded that South pass, called a sign-off. An overcall at the minimum available level. A trick that can be taken without giving up the lead to the opponents. The responses are: 5=0 or 4; 5=1; 5=2; 5=3. you have enough points to bid game, so you should make an invitational bid, like 2NT, to ask whether partner has a good hand. Partner couldn't bid hearts at the two level without five of them. A double made by a player in the pass out position. A trick that may eventually have to be lost but that the opponents can't immediately take upon gaining the lead. In rubber bridge, a partnership that has not won a game. After 1 - 1N your rebid is? The FTX Crypto Cup, the sixth and final Major leg of the 2021 Meltwater Champions Chess Tour season, carries a prize pot of $220,000 in cash and $100,000 paid in crypto coins to t Opener must bid 2. If partner . We've already looked at jumping in NT with a balanced hand of 18-19 points. If you are lucky enough to have a strong 6+ suit and invitational strength (16-17 pts), you can show all this with one rebid a jump in your original 6+ suit. A conventional bid of 4 asking partner to show the number of aces held. The cuebid of a suit inferrentially shown by the opponents. A high-card holding likely to take a trick on the early round of a suit. The dealer, who is the first player to have the chance to bid or pass. Q7 Whether a bid is forcing, invitational or signoff. The third stage in declarer's plan. AJ53 Opener's 2 rebid is a reverse. After those 3 bids (1X-1Y-1Z), the typical treatment is to use: 2 by responder as an artificial relay. A pass of a double that one's partner intended to be taken out. It won't matter if it is a suit contract or notrump. The cards in each suit are ranked in order during the play: the ace is the highest, then the king, queen, jack, ten, down to the two. Of course, the major downside (other than forgetting) is that the partnership can't play in a 2 contract after a 1 opening. Reverses use up a lot of bidding space. A single raise of opener's major suit showing the upper end of the minimum range, about 8-10 points. A rebid of the same suit at more than the minimum level available. A hand valuation method in which honors and honor combinations are assigned point values. K2 AK63 We add Partner's points to our own and we get a two-point range for the total points in the partnership. Most team games are scored by International Match Points (IMPs). THE INVITATIONAL 4NT A 4NT immediate response to an opening bid of 1NT or 2NT is invitational and NOT Blackwood. Lower honors, typically queens and jacks as compared to aces and kings. When developing tricks through promotion or length, declarer needs to keep an entry to the hand that will have the established winners. Starting with the player on lead, each player contributes a card in clockwise rotation. 3 hearts 5-5 in majors, invitational 3 spades 5-5 in majors, game forcing 1. 53 That's why reverses require extra strength. It is usually bid to imply shortness or weakness elsewhere. A jump to 4 or 4 over an opposing weak 2 or 2 opening to show a two-suiter with that minor and the unbid major. A forcing bid in a situation where it is unnecessary to bid to give partner another chance to make a call. Little Bear asks, "Do you really think that made sense to a beginning bridge player like me? We still bid game when the partnership total is 24+. She's still looking for a Major suit fit. When planning on trumping losers in dummy, declarer may have to delay drawing trumps to be sure to keep enough trumps in the dummy. AK97 A call specifying that a player does not want to bid at that turn. For example: KQ109, J108. An overcall at a higher level than necessary showing a weak hand with a long suit. AKJ532 The shortening of one's trumps to enable the eventual lead of a different suit to substitute for the lead of a trump to take a finesse. When one partner makes a forcing bid, the other partner must keep the bidding open regardless of how rotten he thinks his hand is. For example, an ace is one quick trick; an ace and king in the same suit are two quick tricks. A reverse shows an invitational hand or better, and is forcing for one round. Q Q5 When Opener bids the suit skipped over, it's a reverse. Showing preference for opener's first bid suit despite holding more cards in another suit shown by opener. Q2 Very often this phrase occurs in sequences which started with an opening bid of 1NT. Inverted Minor Suit Raise (Inverted Minors). The player winning a trick leads to the next trick. How do you do that? A result in a team match where a game contract is made by one team but no by the other team. If partner then bids 2 or 2 then you can show a really miserable hand with a 2 nd negative of 2NT - about 0-3 points. The forcing notrump is a bidding convention in the card game of bridge . Playing a trump on a trick when void in the suit led. Promises at least one 4-card major and an invitational hand. When there are not enough sure tricks to make the contract, declarer looks at the various techniques for developing extra tricks: Promotion, Length, The Finesse, Trumping in Dummy and Discarding Losers. A3 A play to prevent a particular opponent from gaining the lead. Potential winners in one hand that cannot be reached from the other hand. Examples below: A] 1-1 1: The responder can bid 2 to force opener to bid 2. The responses are: 5=0 or 4; 5=1; 5=2; 5=3. The responses are: 4, 0 or 4; 4, 1; 4, 2; 4NT, 3. Blair to Bush, precursor to invasion of Iraq. A play by declarer that cuts communications between the defenders. When we open one-of-a-suit, our possible point range is quite wide (12-21). It results in a guideline for competitive auctions: The partnership should generally compete to a level corresponding to the number of combined trumps held by the partnership (e.g. A conventional notrump bid to show a two-suited hand. A slang term for an extremely strong hand in the context of the auction. show answer, You know there is no spade fit because Responder skipped over a 1 response when she bid 2. show answer, QT54 Open with 15 or more; consider opening with 14; pass with fewer than 14. An auction in which both sides are bidding to try and win the contract. A non-sequential holding in a suit such as A-Q or K-J. A lead of the fourth card down from the top in a suit. With A bid that invites partner to bid to a game contract. With Lawrence and Morehead in mind 3 Spades ask opener to evaluate his hand in terms of previous bidding and with a maximum bid again but with a minimum he may pass. Developing a trump winner with the help of a potential overruff or an uppercut. AJ3 QT73 It includes an assumed six tricks (see Book). Opener should bid game in a major suit with 15 points and pass otherwise.. Limit raises were developed because the original natural system for responding to suit openings made it very difficult to describe a hand with invitational values (the only . 3) Extra Tricks Needed. Agreeing with partner's suggested trump suit by raising the suit to a higher level. Bridge World Standard. In a position in which pass will end the auction. A finesse that may need to be taken more than once to gain one or more additional tricks. A bid or double suggesting the suit that partner should lead as a defender. After 1 - 1N your rebid is? I rather expected the opposite. K8 So we raise Partner's 2 bid to 3, inviting game and giving Partner the final decision. SO, it goes 1-something, 1-something, then 1-of-a-major. For example, if West has bid hearts and South holds A-Q and North holds 4-3, the contract is better played by South than North. A variation of Drury where opener's rebid of the major at the two level shows a minimum hand. It can also be used whenever a forcing call is needed. AJ6 KQ52 Now this all works, but it is nowhere near as efficient as the SARS sequences defined in the No Trump bidding book. Spot cardsany card from two through nine. You are the declarer in this case, not partner. KJ9 A slam-investigating bid made during an auction's later rounds that shows control of a suit. A bid made after the opponents have opened the bidding. Jacoby transfers can also be used after notrump overcalls or higher-level notrump opening bids. The Stayman convention can also be used after a notrump overcall or higher-level notrump bids. We will learn a new stopgap bid covers certain hands with invitational values, the forcing Notrump. Players take their turn at bidding in turn and in order following a clockwise. Standard bidding in North America, based on five-card major openings and a strong 1NT opening. Blackwood Convention. K2 no need to bid spades, as partner has already bypassed that suit. Using The hand of declarer's partner that is placed face up on the table after the opening lead. 12-14 point balanced hands look for a major suit fit at the one level, then make a minimum rebid in NT. An artificial response of 2 to an opening bid of 2 that says nothing about responder's hand. Declarer must consider such things as drawing trumps, losing necessary tricks early, and being in the right hand at the right time. However, there is no invitational bid available with a 5-card major. show answer, QT76 For example, when Partner raises 1 to 3, she will have 10-11 points with spade support. Passing with a strong hand and/or a good holding in the opponent's suit in the hope partner will reopen with a takeout double which can then be converted into a penalty double by passing. Tricks a hand can be expected to take if the partnership buys the contract. Another term for vulnerability. Responder's 2 relay is used to either place the contract in 2, or to be followed by an invitational bid. With these few samples in mind I would postulate a rule that a raise of a narrowly defined bid is always invitational. The player to the dealer's right. After 1 - 3 your rebid is? A hand that might be suitable for a notrump contract even though it has more than one doubleton: 5422 or 6322 distribution. Count the winners (or losers). After 1 - 1N your rebid is? The conventional use of a jump to 2NT by responder after opener's suit has been doubled for takeout to show a limit raise or better in opener's suit. A sequence of cards in a suit where the third card from the top is missing, but not the next lower-ranking card(s). After this, responder can pass to play there, or make an invitational bid (such as 2, which would promise at least 5 hearts). Points scored for making a part score, game, or slam or for defeating the opponents' contract. You have enough strength to force to game, and you have a four-card suit you haven't mentioned yet, so you bid it: 3 .
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