Preempts:  Weak 2 Bids, Suit Quality, Self-Sustaining Suits and more

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Greetings Bridge Friends,

Welcome back to Part 3 and 4 of our continuing preemptive bidding journey.  While at first look, making a preemptive bid and response looks deceptively simple.  Yes, right you are on both accounts!  In this episode we  delve deeper into Suit Quality, Self-Sustaining Suits, Losing Trick Count, Cover Cards and how to bid when its the opponents who made a pesky 2 or 3 level preemptive bid.

As we saw in the prior section, preemptive styles come in three forms:
aggressively hot preemptors willing to take more risks, conservatively mild preemptors requiring solid values and disciplined weak bidders bidding somewhere in between.  When it comes to considering honors in their long suit, aggressive types are likely to get by with 4 of the top 6 (including the 9 spot), conservative preemptors look for 2 of the top 3 honors and disciplined are probably okay preempting 3 of the top 5.  Since it is imperative to have solid partnership agreements as a prerequisite to finding the best contracts, it seems prudent to spend some time discussing partnership bidding styles in different situations.

Our aggressive preemptors tend not to worry as much about vulnerability compared to a conservative bidder.  Same when it comes to seat position – aggressive types are less concerned preempting with so-so values in the second seat while conservative types are sensitive to the fact the preempt has a 50-50 chance to challenge partner’s strong hand.  And our aggressive bidder is likely to be friskier when holding a long Spade suit, knowing the opponents have to overcall at the next higher bidding level to compete.
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Greetings Bridge Friends,

Welcome back to Part 3 and 4 of our continuing preemptive bidding journey.  While at first look, making a preemptive bid and response looks deceptively simple.  Yes, right you are on both accounts!  In this episode we  delve deeper into Suit Quality, Self-Sustaining Suits, Losing Trick Count, Cover Cards and how to bid when its the opponents who made a pesky 2 or 3 level preemptive bid.

As we saw in the prior section, preemptive styles come in three forms:
aggressively hot preemptors willing to take more risks, conservatively mild preemptors requiring solid values and disciplined weak bidders bidding somewhere in between.  When it comes to considering honors in their long suit, aggressive types are likely to get by with 4 of the top 6 (including the 9 spot), conservative preemptors look for 2 of the top 3 honors and disciplined are probably okay preempting 3 of the top 5.  Since it is imperative to have solid partnership agreements as a prerequisite to finding the best contracts, it seems prudent to spend some time discussing partnership bidding styles in different situations.

Our aggressive preemptors tend not to worry as much about vulnerability compared to a conservative bidder.  Same when it comes to seat position – aggressive types are less concerned preempting with so-so values in the second seat while conservative types are sensitive to the fact the preempt has a 50-50 chance to challenge partner’s strong hand.  And our aggressive bidder is likely to be friskier when holding a long Spade suit, knowing the opponents have to overcall at the next higher bidding level to compete.
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