| Team: | Lo | Last Updated | Aug 28, 2022 at 18:49 |
| Players: | Ira Chorush - Alex Kolesnik | ||
| 3NT opening by unpassed hand shows solid major suit with no more than one king outside |
| Opening bids are rarely less than 11 HCP, unless hand is very distributional. Overcalls, in a major can be quite light at the one level. Preempts are better than is typical in 1st and 2nd seats, could be anything in 3rd seat. Most jump raises of partners suits are
mixed value; pure preempts pass unless there is an alternative way to show a mixed raise. Conventionally, we open one diamond from 4-4 in minors and 1 club from 3-3 in minors, but partner can use greatly disparate suit quality to change this. 1NT opening bid is 15-17 vulnerable and in 4th seat; 14-16 otherwise. It would be exceedingly rare for us to open a 4 card major in 1st or 2nd seat, but fairly common in 3rd seat. |
| Opening leads are Rusinow except vs NT when the lead is from a 3 card or shorter suit. Spot leads are 3rd from even and low from odd vs suits, and 4th from 108xx or better vs NT; from worse than 108xx leads are 2nd from 4+ and top from 3. When the King is led vs as suit contract (showing the ace) signal is standard During the hand attitude is led through declarer and the 9 and 10 promise zero or 2 higher. |
| Upside down count and attitude except when the King is led showing the ace, in which case the signal is standard. Trump suit used a lot for suit preference. Signals tend to be attitude followed by count followed by suit preference; if one of these is known or soon will be then we skip to the next in order. When the opening leads makes it apparent that the suit led should not be continued, the card played is suit preference. We try to avoid signaling unless we think partner will obtain greater advantage than declarer. |