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#1 User is offline   Spock_ 

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Posted 2021-July-21, 05:34

Playing Standard American but not 2/1 Game Force. As Responder when I bid a suit at 2 Level, that is not a jump shift and when the opponents have passed in between, does bidding the suit show 4 or 5 of that suit? I know bidding 2 hearts always shows 5 due to the convention of bidding the lowest four card suit.

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1 Pass 2

1 Pass 2
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Posted 2021-July-21, 06:38

View PostSpock_, on 2021-July-21, 05:34, said:

Playing Standard American but not 2/1 Game Force. As Responder when I bid a suit at 2 Level, that is not a jump shift and when the opponents have passed in between, does bidding the suit show 4 or 5 of that suit? I know bidding 2 hearts always shows 5 due to the convention of bidding the lowest four card suit.

Examples are

1 Pass 2

1 Pass 2

For the suit below yours, the key to understanding is always the (4333) hand. 1 - 2 shows 5 because with 3433 the correct response is 2. It has nothing to do with bidding the lowest 4 card suit.

After a 1 opening, we would respond 2 with a 3334 hand. If the 1 opening shows 4+ then this is typically the only shape where the 2 response is not 5+. If 1 is 3+ then you might also make the call with (32)44.

After a 4+ 1 opening, we would always respond 2 with a 3343 hand of suitable strength. If 1 promises 5+ then we could in theory always raise with 3 and therefore make 2 5+. But most pairs prefer to differentiate more clearly between 3 and 4 hearts rather than 4 and 5 diamonds and therefore will respond 2 on many of those 3343 hands.
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Posted 2021-July-21, 10:15

The system you play is designed to show strength before length so your first duty is to describe your strength to your partner which means sometimes bidding 4-card or even occasionally a 3-card minor suit.

As opener, you should not raise responder’s minor suit without 4-card support.
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Posted 2021-July-21, 11:11

2 could even be a 3-card suit in some cases
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Posted 2021-July-22, 08:54

Do remember that a lot of the 4333 hands that can't just raise bid the appropriate number of NT.

Playing Standard American, 1 is 5. So the choice with 4333 is raise or NT (almost always raise). 3=2=4=4 might bid 2 (I'd probably bid 2 always, but bridge always always means "except when it's clearly wrong"), but I'd expect 5 for 1-2.

1-2 is an awful sequence in any system, but 5cM in particular. There are page-long conventions specifically for this auction (which I don't play, but you get the point).
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