System Summary Form (SSF), 2025 Women's USBC


Team: Lewis Last Updated Mar 30, 2025 at 16:47
Players: Linda Lewis - Jenni Carmichael

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Bids that Require Advance Preparation

General Bidding Style

We play 5 Card Majors.
In minors we play 2+ club suits & 4+ D suits.
14+-17- NT openings.
we open a minor 12+ with bal hands unless 3rd seat may open 11.
With unbalanced hands we may open either a minor or major with 11+ (10+ 3rd seat).

Opening Leads AND Leads in the Middle of the Hand

we Play Rusinow from 3+ Vs suits & NT.
Exceptions are dummys suit, partners suits, at 6 Lvl, & side suits in preemptors hand.
Spot card lds Vs NT is 4th unless its a suit with no honor & then may ld 2nd highest.
May lead from J98x the 8.
Ld High from xxx Vs NT.
Vs suits lead low from xxx & hi from DBTN.
Otherwise 3rd & 5th.
In mid hand lead J tends to not promise a higher honor unless we are being deceptive.
10 tends to show a 1/2 higher honor.
Example- at trick 2 may switch to 10 from KJ10x & to J from J109.

Defensive Signals

We play upside down count & attitude but STD current count & suit preference.
we play trump suit pref when it wont sacrifice a trump trick.
if a ruff situ then hi low may be count showing odd #.
Our first Priority is Attitude & rarely give count unless its to prevent access to a long suit.
we give FreQ suit pref but may not if we feel its obvious to switch.