Thank you, very good stuff. Now I need to convince the other half of the partnership.
Where are we going?
#21
Posted 2022-March-25, 08:11
"And no matter what methods you play, it is essential, for anyone aspiring to learn to be a good player, to learn the importance of bidding shape properly." MikeH
(still learning)
"At last: just calm down, this kind of disrupted boards happens every day in our bridge community. It will always be an inherent part of bridge until we move to a modern platform, and then will we have other hopefully less frequent issues." P Swennson
(still learning)
"At last: just calm down, this kind of disrupted boards happens every day in our bridge community. It will always be an inherent part of bridge until we move to a modern platform, and then will we have other hopefully less frequent issues." P Swennson
#23
Posted 2022-March-25, 09:36
jillybean, on 2022-March-24, 17:57, said:
Yes, this is how we would treat a 2542 type hand when partner does not want to bid NT (this may be the problem).
2♦. xyz/4th suit, game forcing
2♣ xyz. If 2♣ was available, natural, we wouldn't chose it.
Pass ?
1nt - convince me why this is a good bid, I have few entries to partners hand, and have sympathy for the 2♥ bid.
2♦. xyz/4th suit, game forcing
2♣ xyz. If 2♣ was available, natural, we wouldn't chose it.
Pass ?
1nt - convince me why this is a good bid, I have few entries to partners hand, and have sympathy for the 2♥ bid.
Why is 2H, based on 5th 10, a better bid than 1NT, the undbid suit i protected.
There is golden bidding rule, that if someone rebids his suit it showed 6+, this
holds true for opener / responder. Now the rule has some exception, but it is a
general rule of thumb, and a good one.
With kind regards
Uwe Gebhardt (P_Marlowe)
Uwe Gebhardt (P_Marlowe)
#25
Posted 2022-March-27, 08:16
I first learned the golden rule of bidding from Alan Truscott's books: "never rebid a five card suit, except in a forcing situation where alternatives are worse." So it might be reasonable to bid 1♠-2♥-2♠ with a five carder depending on your two-over one style, but 1♣-1♥-1♠-2♥ absolutely must be six cards. (Perhaps I'd make an exception with KQJTx depending on the rest of the hand, but usually not -- this can get you to game opposite a stiff.)