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- VCB
- Variable Cue Bidding. Agreements used in the Ultimate Club to request and show controls.
- Variable notrump
- The use of a weak notrump when not vulnerable and a strong notrump when vulnerable.
- Victory points (VP)
- A conversion scale used in team contests and based on total IMP differences, so as to reduce the effect of very large swings.
- Vienna coup
- The unblock of a winner opposite a threat prior to reaching a position that effects a squeeze.
- View
- An assumption about how the cards lie on a particular deal: "Sorry, partner, I took a view."
- Void
- No cards in a given suit.
- Voidwood
- See Exclusion Blackwood.
- Vugraph
- A method of electronically displaying tournament bridge deals to spectators.
- Vulnerability
- A scoring condition assigned to each pair in advance of a deal. In duplicate bridge, vulnerability is indicated on boards; in rubber bridge, it is determined by the number of trick points previously earned. Vulnerability affects both the size of bonuses for making contracts and penalties for failing to make them.
- Vulnerable
- 1) (Duplicate bridge) A designation, shown on each board, that indicates whether larger bonuses and penalties apply to one, both or neither pair on that deal.
- 2) (Rubber bridge) Having won one game.
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