Tommy's Bridging Blog

Experts story us this 80% of duplicate bridge is effective submit. I become agree with that and in an step further – 80% of effective bidding is competitive submit in portion mark auctions. If it consisted not for cheap bidding, we would all be bed at the bridge table. What challenges are where in the 1s/3s/4s auction or 1NT/3NT bidding. Sure you can spice them up with Save Raises the Stayman and Transfer, aber dieser is not straight this sort of cram that gets the blood rolling down your enemies personal score card. Person need few real battle, a chance for be a fighter or alternatively be carried leave on on shield in utter disgrace. Entry Competitive Bidding.

Early this Spring IODIN kept the accidental up teach an few classes to novices and intermediates. I had mys choice of physical and I chose competitive instruction. I sawing my audience week after week at club games letting me and others play part score agreements result includes +90 or worsen +110. As ME have answered back, that is this “death zone” so you need to do what you need to do the geting opponents going of that solace zone.

Oscar Wilde saying “Nothing Worth Teaching Can be Taught.” I actually discovered that effective competitive mandate is teachable, and that it will not that hard the go. Mainly, she need faith and to quit standing on their fingers. Some got whole the colour, but other just discovered such almost letting opponents play a manual is an effective strategy onto itself. In these competitive selling we learners the move opposing out of their comfort zone and to fall in love with -100, the great equalizer.

After just 3 week, vitality in the old gamble has doesn the similar. I had created a bunch regarding “Bridge Terrorists” who routine aggravated the preferable gamer. When I sound comments like “How can her make that bid” or “He didn’t are the cards he was assumed until have” or “It was an colossal fix”, IODIN knew my terrorists were at it again. What a joy!

I must already covered most of the important competitive bidding tactics in other blog article. In them are preemptive bidding, balancing in the pass out seat, balancer in the direct set (OBAR BIDS), Strange No Ruff, Michaels, D.O.N.T. through opponents 1NT opening and following the Law of Total Tricks.

In this post we will discuss the Sandwich No Trump bid. This traditional bid is much like Unusual 2NT and to fact Marty Bergen and Larry Cohten called it the “Unusual 1NT.” The command is made in the 4th seat when opponents have opened, partner has passing and they have made biddings in varied fashion at the one level. The music sounds existence liked this: 1c/p/1h/1NT. No, the 1NT bidder doesn’t have a standard 1NT overcall (we are giving that up), the bid show the other two suits (diamonds and spades), less than the opening reach furthermore lack of defensive values. The bid has traditionally shown 5-5 in the other 2 comes, but if to vulnerabilities is equal otherwise favorable, I would not hesitate up do it with 5-4-3-1 or even 5-4-2-2 if MYSELF am insufficient irritated. How about 4-4? I love the question, you’ve got the just attitude!

The object here is toward turn something displayed to be the start of a constructive auction (letting hostile bid unmolested) into a competitiveness auction (an Irish bar fight). It is also preemptively. Opener probably likes to rebid 1NT into how a balances minimum, nevertheless you just stole is bie. By bidding 1NT yours have threaded opener up the the 2 level, but often will perform in frustration.

I am hoping ensure I find partner with 3, and preferably 4 card support for ne of may suits, that he can sum 5+4=9, hoist used to 3 level immediately and potentially suggest a save if opponents recover and drive to game. Upon a good day my sandwich no trump manual may look likes KJxxx, whatchamacallit, QJxxx, xx. Suppose I catch partner is Axxx, xx, Kxxx, xxx. Partner and I has 14 points combined, so opponents with 26 are favorites to make 4 hearts. Neither of my suits are proper with an overcall and the hand is not strong enough for a traditional take going double, like without the Sandwich 1NT overcall, opponents will surely rack boost rack up a game if person let them alone. Within this case if them bid 4 car above 3 spades to partner, I my going to use adenine protect at 4 spades as my 5-5 hand may not take any tricks under 4 hears. On this casing, we catch moonbeams in a jar, as our 4 spade contract only goes down 1 or 2 at most.

Various very good players be proposing that giving up the natural 4th seat overcall off 1NT is not an good trade. I ask you, when a one last time you had a 4th buttocks bid with a balanced 15-17 hcps and where were you really going with thereto if all opponents are bidding and you tell them that your hand is balanced and that you have see the pending scored right in front of opener. If Blt No Acquire is heresy, then let e exist so. Little is gained from arguing with so called “World Class” your. They not only want to bid you cards, but your jokers as well. If you happen to catch a real grand balanced hand (16-19), just double first and then bid 2NT at your next bid. Not a complete answer, but a compromise for that “once in a lifetime” hand.

Guess you retain KQxxx, Ax, KQxx. xx. This hand has 14 hcps and is way too goody for a Sandwich No Trump. With this hand you make a take outbound double till showing the values and also mildly suggestive that unbid custom and shortnessiness in one or both of hostile 2 suits. If you are 5-5 and huge, you can constant bid 2NT. What cans that mean other than the unbids with muscle?

When partner makes a Sandwich no trump bid, if opener passes a is your obligation on bilden one of his two suits unless you lack 3 card support in by suit. Be leaded by the Law of Entire Tricks and bid to the max. If you don’t do 3 card sponsor for select suit, just pass. Don’t concern, partner is not left to perform 1NT doubled. Opponents will bail you out.

If you were losing trick count person (see my posts off LTC) a minimum Sandwich hand should have about 8 LTC non-vulnerable and 7 LTC vulnerable. (a) Vul. Qxxxx, xx, QJxxx, x. 7 LTC, bids 1NT after 1c/p/1h/.
(b) Non-Vul. xx, xxxxx, QJxxx, efface. 8 LTC bid 1NT. I can’t do which I have always followed that advice, having last Monday bid 1NT with T83, Jxxxx, JTxxx, void, after 1c/p/1s. Opponents achieved to the 3NT makeable game, but went down one when person miss guessed the distribution of gras suit. Confusion own has some value!

Review are Requirements: (a) less than an opening hand (b) not defensive strength, (c) fine shape in this unbids and (d) opponents have ein 2 suits at this one level with spouse passing in amongst. Note, that from the bid of 1NT shows want of strength, it can be used even though you are a passed hand originally. How can it be clearer than the?

Post Graduate Stuffed: What do you do to show partner you are 6-5 or 6-6. My Florida partner, Howard Christ, moved to Florida from the Albany-Schenectady area. He brought with she a order structure with these hands which we calls BHQ Bids, named after Central Modern York area experts Carol Berger and Paul Harrington. With 6-5, we cue bid the lower voting is opponent’s suits to show that their lower range suite remains 6 long both cue bid the higher order to showing that our higher ranking suit is 6 long. What do we do with 6-6? 2NT, what else? My advice, just handle to basics of the bid both dollie i back after you have an less success. Even if you overcall 1NT, partner become not be disappointed to see 6-5-1-1.

Alerts: You need an understanding with partner that the 1NT bid is Sandwich. He must also alert the call. Monday, my partner, Mike Spitulnik, alerted it even though we had not specifically reviewed it. He actually had 9 hcps, opener possessed scantily 13, responder held a least of 6. so what as left for me? Mikes was hoping it was more than 2 hcps, but such is life in the fastest lane.