jogs, on 2012-August-17, 07:07, said:
Playing 12-14 NT.
A 5233 minimum would look like
QJ752, A3, KQ4, QJ6
Also do you ever open 1NT with 5 card majors?
A 5233 minimum would look like
QJ752, A3, KQ4, QJ6
Also do you ever open 1NT with 5 card majors?
We open 1N with any 12-14 balanced hand including all 5332s unless we're prepared to bid as if we had a 6th card in a major (AKQJx, xxx, Qxx, xx I might open 1♠ but it's once in a blue moon).
The point is that the t/o X shows that the partnership has game values if I'm balanced, so I bid a GF and not necessarily balanced 2N and let partner describe his hand. If we have a combined 25 count and no game then I'm going down.