| Board 3 Saturday 27th June |
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Today sinteresting hand. South clearly has a 2♣ opening bid.
North should always make a "Waiting Bid" of 2♦ .
Now we come to the critical moment.
Should South bid 2NT to show 23-24 balancedish or should they bid 2♥ ?
Route 1. 2NT rebid then North should bid 4NT which is a "Quantitative Bid"
It says to partner "If you are minimum please Pass, if you are maximum please bid 6NT"
You need to do this in case we only have 32 HCPs missing two Aces.
Route 2 South rebids 2♥ . North should now bid 2NT as a second waiting bid to see if
South has another suit. Much to North surprise South bids 3♣ .
At this point North visualises 6♣ /7♣ /6NT/7NT.How do we get there?
There is a fairly new convention known as Minorwood. When a minor suit has been agreed
a bid of four of that minor asks about the Five "Aces", the K♣ is the fifth Ace.
4♦ =1 or4 4♥ = 0 or 3 4♠ = 2 or 5 without the Q♣ and 4NT would be 2 or 5 with Q♣
It is extremely rare that South will have all five "Aces" but it happened today.
After South bids 5♠ North can ask for Kings by bidding 5♦ (its 5♦ because 4N and 5♣ would be to play)
South now bids 5♥ to say "I either have K♥ or the other two Kings" North now knows it is K♥ as they have ♠ K.
We now eliminate 6♣ and 7NT as possible contracts. 6NT is now safe and will score better than 6♣ .
7NT is unlikely as we are missing ♦ K. We know partner has ♥ AKxxx at least. Two of our losing Diamonds can go
on ♥ AK If partner has J♥ we can make 7♣ , if partner has a 6 card Heart suit they can set up winning Hearts.
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| FIRST BOARD SATURDAY MORNING WOW!! |
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There is a convention called Kokish. Using this you can show any balanced hand with 23-34 HCPs:
23-24 Open 2C. Partner relays with 2D and you immediately rebid 2NT.
25-26 Open 2C. Partner relays with 2D and you bid 2H alerted, which is either Hearts or a big balanced hand. Partner must then bid 2S relay. You now bid 2NT to show 25-26 after the second relay.
27-28 Open 2C. Partner relays with 2D and you immediately bid 3NT to show 27-28.
29-30 Open 2C. Partner relays with 2D and you bid 2H, again either Hearts or a big balanced hand. Partner relays with 2S and this time you bid 3NT to show 29-30 after the second relay.
31-32 Open 2C. Partner relays with 2D and you immediately bid 4NT to show 31-32.
33-34 2C 2D 2H 2S 4NT .... and that's why this game is so easy. If you are not sure about this, when we get back to real life there will be a slam bidding seminar.
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| Board 13 Tuesday 5th May |
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Partner opens 1♦ What should you bid?
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The answer is, surprisingly 1♥ .
The hand, because it has less than 11HCPS is only worth one bid.
If you respond 1♠ and partner bids 2♦ you are not strong enough to bid 2♥ as that would show 11+HCPs and is "forcing" |
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