You may have heard that it’s\u00a0a good idea to open a hand in third seat that you wouldn’t open in first or second seat, especially if you are not vulnerable. \u00a0The main reasons for doing this are to<\/p>\n
In 100 Winning Bridge Tips Klinger suggests that you should open any hand in 3rd seat that you would have made an overcall with if your RHO had opened 1 Club. \u00a0Example: \u00a0S AKxxx H Qx D xxx C xxx. \u00a0This has 9 HCP but is a viable 3rd seat opener.<\/p>\n
After 3 passes you should open any legitimate opening hand. \u00a0If your hand is borderline use “Casino Count” or “Pearson Points” to decide whether or not to open.<\/p>\n
In third and fourth seat it is OK to open a ______ ________ _______ as long as it meets these criteria:<\/p>\n
A third or fourth seat opening bid in a minor is usually a full opening bid. \u00a0This is because it doesn’t have much preemptive value and a light opening bid of 1C or 1D might allow the opponents into the auction too easily.<\/p>\n
You need to give your partner some leeway if they open in 3rd or 4th seat. \u00a0For example, you don’t want to end up at the three level too easily. \u00a0For example, your\u00a0partner opens 1H and you hold S xx H Kxxx D Axx C Kxxx. \u00a0You want to make a limit raise, but you don’t want to get to the three level if partner opened light. \u00a0For this reason the Drury convention was invented by Doug (can you guess his last name?)<\/p>\n
Larry Cohen has a page on Drury<\/a> on his site.<\/p>\n The original form of the Drury convention responder with limit raise values in partner’s major suit uses an (alertable) 2C response to ask about the quality of partner’s opening bid. \u00a0In this form partner responds 2D with a real opening bid and 2 of their major with a minimum. \u00a0However, almost nobody uses this form of the convention. \u00a0Instead, they use….<\/p>\n The basic form of this switches opener’s rebids around, so that:<\/p>\n In many cases the difference between a 9 card trump fit and an 8 card trump fit is the key to making game. \u00a0Therefore this version of Reverse Drury uses two artificial bids to ask opener about their opening bid:<\/p>\n Of course, some people have to make it complicated. \u00a0They switch the meanings of the 2C and 2D bids above. \u00a0Usually these are the same people who play the reverse version of Bergen.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Opening Light Third Seat You may have heard that it’s\u00a0a good idea to open a hand in third seat that you wouldn’t open in first or second seat, especially if you are not vulnerable. \u00a0The main reasons for doing this…Original Drury<\/h2>\n
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Reverse Two Way Reverse Drury<\/h3>\n
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