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2=4=4=3 minimum opening 12-14 or whatever fits your strong no trump system.
1♦ (2♣) 2♠ (Pass)
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What do you bid in this position with three-small clubs?
Do you ever do anything other than 2NT with a bad club stopper, say Qxx?
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Do you raise spades? Or something else or does it depend.
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Posted 2014-August-30, 00:45
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I believe that the USA currently hold only the World Championship For People Who Still Bid Like Your Auntie Gladys - dburn
dunno how to play 4 card majors - JLOGIC
True but I know Standard American and what better reason could I have for playing Precision? - Hideous Hog
Bidding is an estimation of probabilities SJ Simon
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Posted 2014-August-30, 02:29
As meckwell say, all balanced hands rebid NT, no exceptions. In any case I always consider Qxx a stop.
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Posted 2014-August-30, 05:26
It's not just meckwell.. it's me as well. Stoppers are tertiary stuff. If pard is worried about me having ♣xxx, he can always bid 3♣ after I bid 2NT.
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Posted 2014-August-30, 05:28
Bidding NT with no stop in lefty's suit is way more attractive than bidding NT with no stop in righty's suit.
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Posted 2014-August-30, 07:22
Cascade, on 2014-August-30, 00:45, said:
2=4=4=3 minimum opening 12-14 or whatever fits your strong no trump system.
1♦ (2♣) 2♠ (Pass)
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What do you bid in this position with three-small clubs?
Do you ever do anything other than 2NT with a bad club stopper, say Qxx?
1♦ (2♣) 2♠ (Pass)
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What do you bid in this position with three-small clubs?
Do you ever do anything other than 2NT with a bad club stopper, say Qxx?
xxx ♣ and Ax Kx Qx or maybe Jx I would raise spades.
Qxx ♣ and I am bidding NT
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Posted 2014-August-30, 08:51
2NT just shows a balanced hand. Partner sometimes alerts it and says 'does not promise a stop'
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Posted 2014-August-30, 08:57
As meckwell say, all balanced hands rebid NT, no exceptions. In any case I always consider Qxx a stop. -- mcphee
*** Are you presuming we'all have a Meckwell years of discussion?
Of course a decades old agreement works for them!
I know my partnership doesn't have the discussion time invested to avoid **bal - but no stop** cases as Meckwell.
Truly in a bind with **bal-no stop** hands.
*** Are you presuming we'all have a Meckwell years of discussion?
Of course a decades old agreement works for them!
I know my partnership doesn't have the discussion time invested to avoid **bal - but no stop** cases as Meckwell.
Truly in a bind with **bal-no stop** hands.
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