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How to open with a long major suit?
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Posted 2013-January-25, 20:47
♠：QJT87654
♥：A
♦：AKQJ
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How to open?
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Posted 2013-January-25, 21:19
I think my p and have an agreement that opening 5 of a major asks partner to bid 6 with the A or K of trump and 7 with both. It has never come up...
EDIT:
Without that, how about.
2♣ - whatever
3♠ (setting trump) - whatever
5♣ - exclusion RKCB.
EDIT:
Without that, how about.
2♣ - whatever
3♠ (setting trump) - whatever
5♣ - exclusion RKCB.
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Posted 2013-January-25, 21:59
Open 2♣?
After open 2♣,opps maybe have great chances to be preemptive at 4♥,even at 5♣,now how do you handle to show your a long ♠ hand without any losers in the side suits?
After open 2♣,opps maybe have great chances to be preemptive at 4♥,even at 5♣,now how do you handle to show your a long ♠ hand without any losers in the side suits?
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Posted 2013-January-25, 22:08
5♠
Right out of The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge
Larry Cohen also wrote about this in My Favorite 52. (pgs. 9-12)
Right out of The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge
Larry Cohen also wrote about this in My Favorite 52. (pgs. 9-12)
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Posted 2013-January-25, 22:21
masse24, on 2013-January-25, 22:08, said:
5♠
Right out of The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge
Larry Cohen also wrote about this in My Favorite 52. (pgs. 9-12)
Right out of The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge
Larry Cohen also wrote about this in My Favorite 52. (pgs. 9-12)
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Posted 2013-January-25, 23:59
5♠
BCIII
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Simplify the complicated side; don't complify the simplicated side.
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Posted 2013-January-26, 00:13
I read about that 5S opening in Patricia Fox Sheinwold's Husbands and Other Men I've Played With in 1993. Twenty years later I am still waiting to be dealt a hand where I can use it.
In all fairness, I have seen exactly one hand in that time when I wished I could open a preemptive 5M (an extreme example of the "3 or 5 hand" you sometimes get with long hearts and short spades), and no other meanings for a 5M opening besides those two have crossed my mind.
Maybe I need to agree to play 5S asks for trump honors but 5H is a preempt!
In all fairness, I have seen exactly one hand in that time when I wished I could open a preemptive 5M (an extreme example of the "3 or 5 hand" you sometimes get with long hearts and short spades), and no other meanings for a 5M opening besides those two have crossed my mind.
Maybe I need to agree to play 5S asks for trump honors but 5H is a preempt!
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Posted 2013-January-26, 06:12
lycier, on 2013-January-25, 21:59, said:
Open 2♣?
After open 2♣,opps maybe have great chances to be preemptive at 4♥,even at 5♣,now how do you handle to show your a long ♠ hand without any losers in the side suits?
After open 2♣,opps maybe have great chances to be preemptive at 4♥,even at 5♣,now how do you handle to show your a long ♠ hand without any losers in the side suits?
Well, I suggested 5♠ (did you read that part of my post?) which is clearly best but without this gadget I can't see that you're any more vulnerable to pre-emption when you open 1♠. If you do, partner will never believe you're this strong. If it does go 2♣-(4♥)-P-P-5♠ partner should still raise you to 6 with A or K and 7 with both, even if you don't specifically have that agreement. The downside is that he might raise you with the A♣ which is why opening 5♠ obviously works best.
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