Polling You #57 – Partnership Agreements: Bidding Style
Good Bridge is all about partnership agreements. Partnership agreements are built on bidding style. And how about your Bridge – do you and your partner score “style points?”
On this survey, we give you the opportunity to ponder your opening bid and overcall style in 12 common situations. Within each question area, you may select from 1 to 6 of the selections associated with each bidding topic. Here’s a chance to analyze various bidding criteria that makes up your Bridge bidding DNA. Better yet, you can compare your responses to your current and prospective Bridge partners.
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Happy Trails,
BridgeHands
I am really surprised at the low percentage for opening 2H or 2S in fourth requiring full (or better) opener.
Isn’t that bid part of sayc?
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Yes, many tournament players would agree that opening in the fourth seat with 2 Hearts or 2 Spades shows a good hand and suit. Ron Andersen’s “Preeempts from A to Z” suggests this bid shows a good trump suit and 2 defensive tricks (primary honors in outside suits), more or less a 7 Losing Trick Count hand assuming modest trump support from partner.
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Unfortunately, while this type of treatment may be common with a large subset of aspiring Duplicate Bridge players, it’s not part of a system such as Standard American Yellow Card, Standard American, etc. In fact, regarding SAYC many would be surprised regarding the treatment of these bids:
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(1C) – 1N – (P) – 2D;……..2D is to play, not a transfer in SAYC
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1D – 2N;…………………….2N is “classic” game forcing in SAYC
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If you are interested, we have reformatted the SAYC system notes here:
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http://www.bridgehands.com/Conventions/SAYC.htm
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Warm Regards, Michael