Some of you might be wondering why we did not discuss the bidding after our partners open 1NT or open 2NT. The simple reason is that most of you have methods that you are comfortable with. Some of you even play slightly different methods with different partners. LCStandard does review these auctions and you can read the articles at your leisure employing the same link to LArry Cohen's website to find them on the list.

So we can most effectively use our class time this week and next week reviewing our auctions that start with an opening bid in a major. These are very important auctions

The video shown in class presenting 2/1 GF is here for you to watch again. Remember there are three other (longer) 2/1 GF videos that can be watched on the same channel. Links to them will be posted here soon.

We covered four more hands from the book at the tables and played more on the screen. 

Next week we will continue our discussion of 1M auctions. Remember, there are just eight auctions that are affected by changing to 2/1 GF from standard. It is also important to remember that if either partner is a passed hand, 2/1 bids and 1NT revert to their normal meanings. Finally if responder's RHO bids or doubles over the opening bid, 2/1 bids and 1NT revert to their normal meanings. So here are the six 2/1 GF auctions and the two 1NT forcing auctions.

1♠ -(pass)-2♥                                                                  1♠ - (pass) - 1NT 

1♠ -(pass)-2♦                                                                  1♥ - (pass) - 1NT

1♠ -(pass)-2♣  

1♥  -(pass)-2♦  

1♥  -(pass)-2♣  

1♦  -(pass)-2♣