| Team: | Lebowitz | Last Updated | May 18, 2020 at 12:14 |
| Players: | Adam Grossack - Larry Lebowitz - Gavin Wolpert | ||
| No methods that require advanced prep. |
| Modern, standard opening bid style. Passing balanced 11 counts is possible. Open almost all 12 counts. 5-card majors, could be a 4-card suit in 3rd or 4th seat, extremely rare could be 4 1st or second. Weak 2 bids can be 5-card suits if the hand screams for it but normally 6. Strong NT 15-17 with normal upgrading and downgrading. Can open better minor but normally 1D with 4-4 and 1C with 3-3. Deviation is possible. 3rd seat can open very aggressively on 1-level and can open for the lead. |
| We play standard honor leads vs. Suits and NT with the exception of a strong king vs. NT. Typically we lead 3rd and low versus suits and 4th best vs. NT. Mid-hand it's just attitude based or 4th best. |
| We play standard signals - high-low is encouraging and high-low is even. Our primary signal is attitude at T1, then count or suit preference depending on what we think is more relevant. We never signal with tricks.
When there is a singleton on the dummy or no further tricks to be won (partner leads K dummy has Ax and it's a suit contract) our primary signal is suit preference. In NT, if we can't beat the Jack or better at T1 we give count. |