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supply chain shortage with masterpoints brought this on ...barf

I'm thinking aloud here, one of the benefits I like of our disciplined (1&2 seat) weak 2's & feature ask is the ability for partner to bid 3nt with some certainty. I am obviously giving that up. I want to ask partner if 2♥ 2♠ is forcing, other than that I think Helene's advice about the 100 page system booklet is very pertinent and I'll just have fun trying it.

I think there is a significant difference between a weak two in diamonds and a 2♣ weak two in diamonds (that may also have some strong hands on occasion). The former exerts much more pressure. The latter frees up a bid for a multi, but it achieves different goals. At some point I was a big enthusiast of cramming more and more hand types into weak/strong bids, but at the table they just didn't seem to win as much. I'm now a big fan of weak bids where responder may frequently pass. The easiest way to do this is by including the suit bid into the description of the bid (although even a 4-card suit might be enough, on occasion) and I believe the weak-only multi players are trying to recover the same threat through different means. Multi is a fun convention and certainly has multiple upsides, but it also comes with noticeable cost. If you want to open more often, or preempt more often, I think multi is not at all a great way to do it. There are lots of interesting and aggressive preemptive schemes with higher frequency and, in my opinion, lower cost than multi + some weak uses for 2M.

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It's part of Bridge World Standard, and the last poll I saw, was a clear favorite for the preferred use of jumps to the 3 level, including recommendations from Larry Cohen, Eric Rodwell, etc. GIB may misuse it, but it's not the convention that's at fault.