[Winstonm]

neilkaz, on Jul 22 2006, 11:25 AM, said:

Winstonm wrote : "I think a more useful idea of the direct jump to 3H/3S is to avoid a hopeless 3N rather than to identify the 4/4 fit over 3N, therefore I use these jumps to indicate 3145(54) patterns, game forcing hands with weakness in the singleton. This allows us to bypass 3N with weak holdings in suits long enough that either opponent is likely to lead, either from 5 or 4, and allows a 5/3 major suit fit to be uncovered as well as minor suit games. "

I've played many uses for direct 3M jumps after 15-17 1NT openings and I think your method is the best. Once in a while opener has 3 small in the jumped M, and two in the other M, along with a max, and you find a really nice 6m slam, which indeed outscores those who are -1 when the opps lead their 9 card suit.

To round out your system, I need to ask you what you use the direct jumps to 3C and 3D to show ?

Thx.. neilkaz ..

Not to go out of thread but to answer a direct question:

3C a relay to 3D that starts a 4/4 fit search with hands of quantitative strength. Home grown concept and system. 3D is 5/5 minors and game force.

[luke warm]

as for the original question, i prefer 3nt with 2 balanced hands, also, as long as at least one of them is 4333... i don't have the experience of some to back that up, it's just a preference... as far as pet systems, i do like mine (no surprise there)... i think fredrick (free) likes mine also, he just prefers that i change opener's responses around to make it more likely that responder will declare... i have no problem with that, i'm just not quite as phobic about wrongsiding as he is