System Summary Form (SSF), 2018 USBC


Team: Morris, NPC Last Updated Apr 23, 2018 at 20:37
Players: Greg Hinze - David Grainger

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Bids that Require Advance Preparation

All of our 2/1 calls after a major opening are artificial:
1.) All of our game forces start with 2C which relays opener
2.) A raise to 1 under our major shows a 3 card limit raise
3.) 1S (p) 2D shows 5+ hearts invitational or 6 hearts weak to invite

Our 2D opener is 3 suited with 0-1 diamond and 4-3 or 4-4 majors

Over our short 1D opener we play 2H/2S as 5 spades and 4-5 hearts weak/invite

General Bidding Style

We play precision with relay over 1M opener. We open all 11 counts and some 10s NV.
5 card majors
1D opening is 2+
1N opener is 14-16 except 4th and 3rd V is 15-17
Our preempts are sound V, and moderately aggressive favorable

Opening Leads AND Leads in the Middle of the Hand

Opening leads:
3/low vs suits
4th from interest vs NT
Standard honor leads
King is power lead vs NT, Q might be KQ or QJ
In the middle of the hand we lead attitude
We lead A from AK

Defensive Signals

UDCA standard suit preference
We usually try to signal what partner wants but our default order is Attitude then Count then suit preference
Trump suit preference
We lead attitude int the middle of the hand