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Latest This Week in Bridge (TWIB) Lesson ♣. When we open the bidding with 1NT, showing 15-17 points, if an opponent makes a penalty double, we are less likely to be looking to invite or bid game. We are usually looking to escape from a 1NT contract and attempt to find some safer place to play.
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23 maj 2022 · When we are responding to a 1♥ opening bid and hold a 4-card ª suit and game forcing values, we have a choice between bidding 1♠ or making a 2/1 GF bid into 2-minor. Let’s look at some examples to see how we can make our best choice.
When we have a minor suit fit, keeping the auction below 5-minor, while trying for slam is one of the advantages of minorwood — using 4-minor as an asking asking tool. By making an improvement to our Ace-showing structure in Minorwood, we can combine both Keycard-asking and quantitative bidding into one structure.
Example 2 – Not 4-cards in the Other Major ♠ 73 ♥ KQ2 ♦ AJ83 ♣ K863 Though we often have 4-card support for the other Major when we make a takeout double of the opponent’s Major suit opening bid, it is not required. With this hand we would make a takeout double of 1♠.
For best results from the auction we want the Captain to be the member of the partnership that has the most information about the two combined hands. We do not want someone that knows little about their partner’s hand to be making final decisions that require lots of information. The decision maker should be the most informed player!
o This will result in the same 2 losers when the suit breaks the expected 4-2. Notice that in the first example we used 7 HCP to accomplish these 4 tricks and in the second example we only used 3 HCP.
this hand we could rebid 2 , but with a minimum hand, good , and poor , 2 is a better choice. Partner can rebid 2 on the next round if they have a good hand and a 4-card suit. The important things to take away (generalize) from these examples are:
