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Can you bid this grand with confidence

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Posted 2009-September-26, 09:46

Partner and I tend to open almost any unbalanced rule of 19 (2 longest suits + points >= 19) hand that doesn't have a good reason not to, so we'd routinely open KQ10xx, KQxx, xx, xx although not x, AKJx, xxxxx, Qxx where we'd have to open 1♦ and rebid 2♦ and potentially bury the ♥ suit over 1♠ or a hand with honours in the short suits.

This is considered the lightest style of "normal" 1 opener in the UK. We need to do this as our weak 2s would be considered positively indecent in the US and we don't want a gap between our 1s and 2s.

I'm in a small minority in that I play the 2N rebid as game forcing and not necessarily balanced, where partner makes the cheapest sensible bid over it. This sorts out a lot of hands, and offers a lot of differentiation in forcing auctions where you have two ways of making a bid, directly or via 2N, but where partner raises a major over 2N can be slightly awkward as in this sequence.

That said, as gnasher said in presenting his sequence, you can get there over a 2♥ response, but I wouldn't dream of responding 2♥ in the first place with a fairly poor heart suit, a good hand and 5 card support. With a better heart suit and that spade fit, I'd respond 3♥, without a void or a good suit, I'd respond 2N (value raise to 3 or better, unlimited), with the void I show it immediately.
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