Pete's Bridge Blog: Lessons and Miscellany about Duplicate Bridge
In Standard American or 2/1, opening 1 of a suit and rebidding 2 of a lower ranking suit doesn’t really limit opener’s strength very much. All we know is that opener doesn’t have enough to make a game-forcing jump shift….
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Update: I’ll be teaching Responder’s Rebids. You can find the worksheet here. Now is a good time to make plans to stay and play at the 11 AM game after the lesson. “Bigfoot”
The main question in deciding which minor to open is whether you want to rebid NT or not. If you aren’t going to rebid NT, say because you have a small singleton then you should probably open 1D. You won’t…
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At the club last night we had two auctions featuring a takeout doubler bidding his/her suit after partner’s response. The first hand was bid by our opponents, who got to the right spot in the…
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