System Summary Form (SSF), 2020 USBF Invitational-1


Team: Gupta Last Updated May 16, 2020 at 17:40
Players: Huub Bertens - Naren Gupta

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Bids that Require Advance Preparation

Natural 2/1 with standard leads and carding.
No special defense required vs our system.

General Bidding Style

We open fairly standard, not extreem light. Almost all balanced 11 counts are passed. We like to preempt in first nv vs vul, so this could easily be a 5 card suit. All our other preempts are 6+ cards, nothing weird.

Opening Leads AND Leads in the Middle of the Hand

We lead 4th vs NT, maybe 2nd from bad holding. Strong K vs NT so Q is either weak KQ holding or standard QJ holding
We lead 3rd and low vs suit contracts.
In the middle of the hand we play a lot of attitude, might switch
9 from 9 3rd or 4th and small from an Honnor.

Defensive Signals

Standard carding throughout and reversed smith. Lot of count signals, in obvious (for us !!!!) situations we play suit preference. Also in the trump suit. We signal fairly frequent.