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Gadget - A method used to address a particular bidding situation or scenario, as opposed to a generalized class of bids.
 

Gambit - To make a risky play, often involving sacrificing a card, with the hope of making additional tricks.
 

Gambling 3 Notrump - See Conventions

Game - In Rubber Bridge,  a game is reached when one side (team of two players) scores 100 or more points below the line.  See Laws

Game All - Signifying both sides are vulnerable.
 

Game Bid - A bid that will satisfy a game for the declarer, if the game is made during actual play.
 

Game Force - A call that requests partner to continue bidding until game is reached.  Some players play that the bidding the fourth suit (Fourth Suit Forcing) is game-forcing.
 

Game In - A term for a vulnerable.

Game Invitation - A call that requests partner to bid game when holding values at the top of the range disclosed on prior calls.
 

Game Try - A call inviting partner to bid game.  See Conventions
 

Gamma Asking Bid (Trump Asking Bid) -  See Conventions
 

Garbage - A hand with very poor values.
 

Garbage Stayman (also called Drop Dead Stayman) - An artificial treatment by responder after opener bids 1 Notrump.  The responder bids 2C, planning to pass any bid by opener. See Example
 

Gardener - See Conventions
 

General Chart Conventions - See ACBL General Chart

GCC - Abbreviation for General Convention Chart [ACBL]
 

Gerber - See Conventions

Laws

Gesture -

Accidentally received information - See Law 16
Action by partner - See Law 16
Exposed card - See Law 50
Remark by partner - See Law 16

Ghoulie - A variation of Bridge bypassing part-score bidding, using the "goulash" method to redeal the hands.
 

Gin - To colloquial term, claiming the remainder of the tricks.
 

Give - To concede a trick or tricks to an opponent.
 

Gladiator - See Conventions
 

GLP - The Internet term, "Good Luck, Partner" typically as a typed abbreviation by the Dummy player to partner as Declarer after the auction is completed.
 

Jargon

Go for -

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Gold Life Master - The second highest rank in the ACBL is Gold Life Master. To achieve this rank, a player must have earned 2,500 masterpoints.

Go in with - To play a certain card.

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Gold Points - Pertaining to ACBL masterpoints awarded, restricted to Regional and National tournaments with contestants holding 750+ masterpoints and applies only to the top two stratifications of stratified or stratiflighted events. In open-bracketed events (such as a bracketed knockout team), each bracket will award some percentage of the overall award as gold, irrespective of the masterpoint holding of the teams in that bracket. Gold points may be awarded for special games, such as the ACBL-wide Instant Matchpoint Game.  In addition to Black, Silver, and Red points, the ACBL requires an achievement of 25 Gold Points to become a Life Master.  Gold points are awarded for overall placings and section tops in regional and NABC events of at least two sessions.

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Golden Age Master - A special category was set up by the ACBL to recognize the achievements of older members. There are two ways to qualify to become a Golden Age Master — (1) 70 years of age with 300 points of any color; or (2) 80 years of age with 100 points of any color.

Good - To establish winning tricks

Good Bad 2 Notrump - See Conventions

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Goodwill Committee - A special category was set up by the ACBL to recognize the achievements of older members. There are two ways to qualify to become a Golden Age Master — (1) 70 years of age with 300 points of any color; or (2) 80 years of age with 100 points of any color.

Goren System - See Conventions

Also see Charles Goren - Hall of Fame and Goren Bridge Books
 

Go to Bed with - The colloquial term for a player who refuses taking a trick with an Ace, which is ultimately lost due to the opponent voiding that suit.
 

Goulash - To deal unshuffled cards in packets.  One variation involves dealing one packet of 5 consecutive cards off the pack to the first player, a second packet of five cards to the second player, and a third packet of 3 cards to the third player.   Dealing the 5-5-3 pattern proceeds with the fourth player (dealer).   While certainly not in accordance with the laws of Bridge, goulash dealing certainly generates highly distributional hands in Rubber Bridge that lead to unusual bidding and play.  Some players like to deal "goulash" from time to time as an exciting interlude to generate challenging hands to bid and play.  See Details
 

Grand Coup - A trump coup using the tactic of ruffing side suit winners to reduce the trump holdings in the other hand.
 

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Grand Life Master - The highest rank in the ACBL is Grand Life Master. To achieve this rank, a player must have earned 10,000 masterpoints and have won at least one North American Bridge Championship event that has no upper masterpoint limit or its equivalent.

Grand National - A major American championship team event using a knockout format, where each team is represented by a geographic zone.
 

Grand Slam - Bidding and making a seven-level contract, requiring the declarer to make all 13 tricks.
 

Grand Slam Force (GSF) - See Details
 

Green - A term indicating favorable vulnerable. Example
 

Jargon

Grosvenor Gambit  - Making an illogical play which catches the opponent "off-guard" to generate an extra trick or tricks, since the opponent discounts the possibility of an illogical play by the opponent (based on a fictitious character created by Frederick Turner in 1973).  The comical defender Grosvenor would deliberately make an apparent error, but the declarer refused the gifted trick assuming the defender must be making a rational play. See Example
 

Play

Guard -

Guard Squeeze - A multi-suited squeeze, where discarding a control allows the opponent to finesse one's partner. See Example
 

Guide Card - Player and table movement details between rounds in a duplicate session.  See Example
 

Guggenheim - Referring to a player which only makes elementary bids and plays (based on a fictitious character created by S. J. Simon).
 

Gulpic - To make a very weak opening bid.
 

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