[jarosz]

It's my first post on this forum, so I want to say hello!

I play polish club.

It's hard for me to bid a 18+ hand with a two-siuted hand. If I open 1♣, it's very difficult to show my hand properly.

I'm looking for 2♦,2♥,2♠,2NT bidding which could include, weak major's, weak 5-5 and strong two suiters...

[Free]

Hi,

Welcome to the forum!

I play GF 2-suiters together with transfer preempts. These give the easiest sollution, but you might have to give up the preempt in ♣ - not a big loss btw. Here's how you might play it:

3♣ = preempt ♦ or GF 55+ ♦ and another
3♦ = preempt ♥ or GF 55+ ♥ and a black suit
3♥ = preempt ♠ or GF 55+ ♠-♣
3♠ = free bid, might use it as Gambling NT or 4-level preempt ♣, or whatever you want

usually partner responds in function of the preempt suit, a lot of time a step-1 response (bidding the preempt suit). Then you can bid:
3X = GF 55+ X and the promissed suit
3NT = GF 55+ ♣ and the promissed suit

advantages:
- preempts are in transfer, so usually the right hand plays
- they are forcing, so you can include even more hands
- gambling 3♠ is available, but it's brown sticker

disadvantages:
- trf preempt give extra bid(s) to opps
- you lose the 3-level ♣ preempt, unless you use 2NT as preempt ♣ or GF 55+ ♣ and another

[nige1]

Intereting stuff but I still can't read it. The suit symbols below all appear as colourd squares. I run Windows 95 and IE 5. Is there anything I can do?

♠ ♥ ♦ ♣

[bearmum]

nige1, on Sep 5 2004, 04:51 PM, said:

Intereting stuff but I still can't read it.  The suit symbols below all appear as colourd squares.  I run Windows 95 and IE 5. Is there anything I can do?

♠ ♥ ♦ ♣

probably upgrade to at least Win 98 and latest IE

[Gerardo]

Suit symbols are Unicode symbols. Not sure, but chances are fonts included in Win95 don't include Unicode symbols.

See Alan Wood’s Unicode Resources, particularly the Fonts section.