DaveMikeH

Apologies, in a standard, American GCC legal system.

This hand came up the other night. I was complaining to a friend about my partner's and my defense on this hand, and he commented that he wouldn't have considered the lead I made. I was curious what the consensus lead would be (I'll post the whole hand and misdefense later) [hv=pc=n&s=s92hk983dk93ca873&d=w&v=0&b=8&a=1sp2cp2hp3d(G.F.)p3hp3nppp]133|200[/hv] Cross-IMPs 2C SAYC.

So there is a large debate about how to use the 2♦ bid in SAYC (Preemptive, Flannery, other). I know many smarter people than I have thought about this but why not use 2♦ to represent the strong 2nt bid (not multi since not allowed) and have 2nt be minors or something else preemptive. I'm sure other people have thought about this, but it seems to me overall better than the standard 2d preemptive. I have some follow-up ideas, do others already have some or are willing to send me something?