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One of Oswald Jacoby’s best gifts to bridge was the idea of using 2NT as a conven-tional forcing raise in response to a one-of-a-major opening bid. Using Jacoby 2NT works like this:
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Major-Suit Openings and Responses — Part 1. The focus of...
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Jacoby 2NT (Two No-Trump) The Jacoby 2NT convention is an artificial, game-forcing response to a 1 or 1 opening bid. The 2NT response shows 4+ trump support with 13+ points. The bid asks partner to describe her hand further so that slam prospects can be judged accordingly.
The Jacoby 2NT game forcing major suit raise is a slam finding convention which isn't very good at finding slams and often helps the defenders. Learn the good, the bad, and the ugly aspects of Jacoby 2NT, and how to fix Jacoby 2NT.
Major-Suit Openings and Responses — Part 1. The focus of this lesson is the Jacoby 2NT convention. The students should be familiar with: five-card major-suit opening bids and responses; valuing responder’s hand using dummy points; mak-ing a single raise, a limit raise, a forcing raise and a preemptive raise using natural methods.
the purpose of the Jacoby 2NT convention, which allows Responder to utilize 2NT as game-forcing and fit-showing for Partners one-of-a-major opening. So we start with 2NT (Jacoby). What types of hands are used for a Jacoby 2NT bid? • Semi-balanced hands (5332, 4432) 11+ (7-losers or better) • Distributional hands 12+ (7- losers or better)
Jacoby 2NT (Swedish: Stenberg 2NT) is a bridge convention in which a bid of 2NT over partner's opening bid of one heart (1 ♥) or one spade (1 ♠) shows a hand with both.
The Jacoby 2 no trump convention is a forcing major-suit raise. It is commonly used in Standard American. 5-card major system and in the two over one bidding system. The convention is on only when a player, in first or second seat, opens 1 ♥ or 1 ♠.
