System Summary Form (SSF), 2025 Open USBC
| Team: | Parrish | Last Updated | Apr 8, 2025 at 23:51 |
| Players: | Anant Rathi - Adam Parrish | ||
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Bids that Require Advance Preparation
2 Flannery
(1N) 2 = 1 major
1  (X) transfers
1 (1) transfers
1m (1  ) transfers |
General Bidding Style
| Vanilla 5533 2/1 system, 1N: 14+ - 17 |
Opening Leads AND Leads in the Middle of the Hand
| 3rd/low against suits
4th against NT, but top or 2nd from xxxx Rusinow at suits NT: - K power, A from AK - Q from KQx(+), Rusniow from 4+ length for lower sequences Ruisnow exceptions (but still K from AK): - Partner's suit - Declarer preempted - Leader preempted and leading a different suit - At 5+ level After T1: - No Ruisnow (but still K from AK) - Attitude is primary concern - When leading a low spot, 3rd/5th by default (can lead lowest from 4 if 3rd may be misread as high) |
Defensive Signals
| UDCA
Against suits, default to SP when it’s clear we can’t win a trick on power in the suit partner led Reverse smith echo against NT 3-way SP (middle=encouraging) when signaling from a known 5+card suit right-side-up remainder count To declarer's lead of dummy’s shortness or their own known shortness, we give count by default - But if signaling as 4th hand with partner winning the trick, revert to SP Give SP when declarer leads towards dummy’s KQx(+) or attacks a combined holding of KQJx(+) and Partner wins Ace on the 1st round Splitting honors: - Low from HH - High from HHH+ |