| Team: | Wold | Last Updated | Apr 4, 2017 at 10:46 |
| Players: | Chris Compton - David Grainger | ||
| Strong Club; 3rd seat NV 1N is 11-15; light initial action, light overcalls, wide ranged preempts. 5 card majors.
2+ one diamond which once in 100 hands is a stiff high honor with 10-12 HCP. 2H (weak hand) or 2S (game invite) over 1D (and over DBL) show 5+ spades and 4+ hearts, Aggressive initial action includes 10HCP with a solid reason to open (the lead, both majors, any two five card suits. Many 5-4 hands opened 1N, not normally with 5M and 4m, stiff high honor normal. Usually respond to all 1st and 2nd NV opening bids. |
| 1C Opening may be based on tricks, which results in less than 16 HCP. All NT ranges include counting for long suits, first seat is a good time to open 13 point nv NT.
The idea of bidding in 3rd seat NV is to disrupt the opponents constructive bidding. It is possible to pass balanced 8-10 point hands, but any hand may be opened. 3rd seat NV we should get to our longest fit and bid to the level of our combined trump fit, no concern for values. 1 level if we only find 7 trump, 2 level if we have 8 trump, etc. Possible to bid for lead. As responder with a fit, we cue bid to show best hand, without a fit, we bid our hand in a normal fashion. Vulnerable, we take a much more classical approach. |
| 3/5th versus suit, including in middle. 4th best with attitude versus NT including middle. We are constantly interested in tricking the declarer, rare to need to signal past trick 5. 3rd hand may return incorrect spot if believes first hand knows the hand. |
| UDCA at trick one. When normal length in the dummy (2,3, or 4 cards), we play attitude as primary signal. With shortness (void or singleton)in dummy we play suit preference at trick one. if five or more in the dummy, the normal signal is count. If third hand is known to have 5 or more cards in suit, may give suit preference. |