System Summary Form (SSF), 2025 Open USBC
| Team: | McNay | Last Updated | Apr 5, 2025 at 17:16 |
| Players: | Ewan McNay - Harrison Luba | ||
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Bids that Require Advance Preparation
| None really. We play transfers in a couple of slightly-unusual places (after X of 1M, and after 2N rebids).
Other mildly artificial stuff: Two-tier splinters after a 1M opening. 3M-1 is a mixed raise. |
General Bidding Style
| Relatively sound/normal. Significant attention to vulnerability especially with pre-empts. 5-card majors, 1m shows 3+.
1-level overcalls can be almost a joke. 2-level usually sound to very sound. Might open 4 card majors in 3rd and 4th with lighter hands. Might also open 1  in 3rd/4th seat on a min. balanced hand.
1N is (14)15-17; 14-counts will generally have decent 5-card suit. Can conceivably include terrible flat 18-count. If white and/or in third slightly more flexible with upgrades. |
Opening Leads AND Leads in the Middle of the Hand
| • 2/4 leads: 2nd from suits headed by 10 or worse including from 109xx(xx).
• Returning a suit we play standard remaining count. • Opening a new suit in the middle of a hand we show attitude. • A or Q asks for attitude, K asks for count. Against NT K asks for an unblock of the Q or J if possible, otherwise count. |
Defensive Signals
| • Upside down count and attitude with standard suit preference signals and standard present count. First signals in suits led by partner are usually attitude.
• When following to trump or where partner does not need count we show suit preference. |