[babalu1997]

Well I had been playing the following agreement:

1CLUB-P-1HEART- 2CLUB CUEBID BY ME

would mean spades and diamonds 2 suiters with shorter clubs than hearts


1CLUB-P-1HEART- 2hearts CUEBID BY ME

would mean spades and diamonds 2 suiters with shorter hearts than clubs

So I avoided the dbl to show the other 2 suits because dbl leave them too much space and then they know to play the hand, and the cuebids pumps the auction a little harder.


As luck would have it, this week i was actually dealt a one suiter with 3 of top five honours in one of their suits in three different deals.

would an unusual 2nt be better? or perhaps leav the cuebids in and adopt a comic 1nt instead?

thanks

[helene_t]

With 4-4 in the unbid suits, you dbl. It is nice to have different calls for 5-4 and 4-5 so that partner knows which suit to pick with equal length. If you play sandwich 1NT, then dbl with 5-4 and bid 1NT with 4-5. If you don't play sandwich 1NT I would suggest that a cue in LHO's suit is either 5-4 or 5-5 while a double is either 4-5 or 4-4. The reason is that when LHO's suit is diamonds, you want to be able to stop in 2♣ when you are 4-5.

2NT is also possible but it is not necessarily safe to bid 2NT with 5-5.

A bid in RHO's suit (here hearts) is natural in standard methods.

[Codo]

There are mayn cute ideas around what to do after (1a) pass (1b).

I tried a lot of them and decided that it was not worth the memory load and came back to natural. I think that the use of at least one of their suits as a natural bid (maybe both of them) is of much more value then to distinguish right now between 55,54,45 and 44.

[kfay]

Both bids are natural!!

I can understand why some people would feel uncomfortable playing this way, but it's good. LHO's suit can be a 3-card minor, RHO's suit can be 4 small cards in a major... it is not so infrequent.

Your structure is really not good. You have two bids that show basically the exact same thing, just a 1-card difference in the two out-of-focus suits. This is a huge duplication in your methods.

Furthermore you say that Dbl lets them know how to play the hand? Maybe they have more bidding space, if that's what you mean. But if you are referring to letting them know how to declare, this method causes you much much more harm in that area.