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This site seems very clear and detailed when talking about this convention and also about its alternative uses:http://www.bridge.pro.br/lebs.htm

You can find the explanation on the Oklahoma Convention by entering my nickname Lovera in the sub-forum "Non-natural Bridge Discussion" as I indicated also when you go to "Find My Content" (before entering), where the Swiss Convention is also discussed. The highly interdictive nature combined with the indications regarding the Keycards make it even more effective. There are two variants of the CEK system (R. Maroder, L. Paolucci, A. Camera) of the convention of probable Italian origin (Roman Club) while mine, more than a third variant can be considered an integration. The application reduced only to the unbalanced hands of the Jacoby 2NT is completed with the use of the jump support (1M-3M) in response to the opening equally only for the balanced ones and therefore: 4M indicates a minimum balanced, 3NT a maximum balanced while cuebidding a minimum unbalanced if then there is a sign off in game or maximum if you continue with cue bids.

London. Brexit: we are moving towards a new referendum  Editorial[www.laprimapagina.it] 17 hours ago  For the first time there is open talk of a second referendum on Brexit. In fact, the British finance minister Philip Hammond stated that "it is very probable" that Parliament considers the hypothesis of a second referendum on Brexit. The Minister spoke about it from Washington to the International Monetary Fund conference. However, Hammond added that he expects an agreement between the government and the Labor opposition over the "next two months", stressing that the London executive remains opposed to a second consultation on Brexit. The United Kingdom has just obtained a further extension of the divorce official date of the European Council, meeting in an emergency summit between 10 and 11 April: from 12 April to 31 October, the deadline to collect the go-ahead from the House of Commons to the deal (agreement) signed in November 2018 by May with European partners. The premier hoped to snatch a shorter postponement, as of June 30, with the aim of increasing the pressure on the opposition in view of a vote in favor of his agreement. May is engaged in a dialogue with Labor leader Jeremy Corbyn, in an attempt to find a compromise to collect the left's support when the pact is ratified.

BETTEL - For the Luxembourg premier Xavier Bettel, among those who pushed for a brief postponement, "the House of Commons must tell us in the end what it wants: we still don't know". For Macron "it is true that the majority position was to grant a very long extension, but in my eyes it was not logical. And above all it would not have been positive either for us or for the British. Because we would have given the impression that between us we can decide to ignore the vote of the British people. I assume this role, for the good of the community. I believe we have found the best possible compromise ". ELECTIONS - For the European Council, "if the United Kingdom is still a member of the EU on 23-26 May 2019 and if it has not ratified the withdrawal agreement by 22 May 2019, it will have to hold the European elections, in line with EU law ". There is also a guillotine clause: if London were to fail in the obligation to celebrate the Europeans, then "the withdrawal will take place on June 1", to avoid undermining the legitimacy of the European Parliament which will be elected on May 23-26 . JUNCKER - The fact that "probably" European elections will be held in Britain, notes the president of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker, "may seem curious, but 'dura lex sed lex'". Of course, it is said that in October the British will have solved the mess that has become Brexit: "I'm too old to rule out other scenarios," Tusk said. "We have no certainty - Macron said - but for the first time in two and a half years, May has started discussions with Labor. I don't know if results will come, but October 31 protects us, either because there is an agreement, or decide to withdraw article 50, or no deal remains an option ". 'NO DEAL' - No deal that was not even mentioned in Donald Tusk's letter of invitation to the leaders, a non-random absence. The 27 EU leaders reiterate that "there will be no reopening of the withdrawal agreement", to then underline that the extension "cannot be used to start negotiations on the future relationship" between the EU and the UK. However, if the London position were to "evolve", then the European Council "is ready to reconsider the political declaration on the future report, in accordance with the positions and the principles outlined in the guidelines and declarations, including regarding the territorial scope of the future report ". ARTICLE 50 - During the extension, the United Kingdom will remain a Member State "with full rights and duties, in accordance with Article 50" and "will have the right to revoke the notification at any time". The European Council "takes note of the United Kingdom's commitment to act constructively and responsibly" during the extension period, "in accordance with the duty of sincere cooperation and expects that Great Britain will respect its duties in a way that reflects his state condition that he is withdrawing "from the EU. Therefore, London "must facilitate the achievement of the EU objectives and refrain from any measure that could jeopardize the achievement of the same, in particular when participating in the EU decision-making mechanism". MEMBERS - The 27 States will continue to meet in the 27 format, where needed, and the European Council "will continue to take care of the matter" and "will review its progress in the meeting next June". Tusk and Juncker have both emphasized that in June there will be no reopening of the negotiations, but only an acknowledgment of the situation: the leaders, in the intentions of the Polish politician, will only have to be informed of the state of the art, without discussing it. THE DURATION - Regarding the different positions that emerged among the Member States on the duration of the extension, Tusk explained that "we are united enough to have common conclusions. Sometimes we do not have identical positions, but we are able to find a compromise". And, he concluded, "it is easier to find a majority here than in the House of Commons".

The Brexit slips again  Adnkronos 2019/04/11 07:44 follow  (AFP) Published on: 11/04/2019 07:06 by Tommaso Gallavotti The Brexit slips again, this time until Halloween night. The European Council, after about eight hours of meeting in Brussels, decided on the night to grant the United Kingdom an extension of the date of exit from the EU, initially set for March 29 and then postponed to April 12, "to allow the ratification of the withdrawal agreement ". This "flexible" extension, the 27 EU leaders explain in the conclusions, spread around two and a half in the morning, "should last only as long as necessary and, in any case, no later than 31 October 2019". The date of October 31 was chosen, French President Emmanuel Macron explained, because "we must be sure that when the next European Commission takes office, we will have dealt with the issue. The new Commission will take office on November 1, 2019". If the withdrawal agreement is ratified "by both parties before this date, then the withdrawal" from the EU "will take place on the first day of the following month", specifies the conclusions. TUSK - For European Council President Donald Tusk, this extension gives the United Kingdom "over six months" of time to decide what to do, which is "exclusively in the hands of" London, which will be able to "ratify the withdrawal agreement" , in which case the extension will terminate ". British Prime Minister Theresa May pointed out that this clause was a request of "fundamental" importance that he had made to the leaders, given that "if we can approve the withdrawal agreement in the first three weeks of May, then we will not have to hold the elections Europeans, to go out on June 1st ". ARTICLE 50 - London, continued Tusk, will be able to "change strategy on Brexit" over the next six months and three weeks, reviewing its "red lines", or "have the opportunity to withdraw article 50". The European Council underlines that the extension "cannot undermine the regular functioning of the EU and its institutions". The Irish premier Leo Varadkar stresses that the agreement "means that we will not have a Brexit without agreement in October". And that "we can focus on other things" in the EU. "We are giving the British a long time to decide," he remarks. THE COMPROMISE - The duration of the extension, the result of a compromise between the positions of France and other countries that were pressing for a shorter postponement and those of others, including Italy and Germany, which were pushing for a long delay, is "a little "It's shorter than I expected, but it's still enough for the UK to find the best solution. Please don't waste this time," Tusk continued. And in any case, "it is better to have a piece of something than the whole of nothing".

The Brexit is postponed to 30 March 2020 10 April 2019 Editorial[=www.laprimapagina.it]  The Brexit will be returned, once again. On this occasion the times will be much longer, even if flexible. The 27 European leaders are meeting today in Brussels to discuss the date of Great Britain's exit from the EU. They could propose a postponement of the exit of Great Britain from the EU to March 30, 2020. It is the hypothesis that circulates on the international media that cites European sources close to the dossier. Theresa May asked for a postponement until June 30, evidently insufficient given the disagreement that reigns in London. Some countries would be willing to give it more time, until the end of 2019. The President of the European Council, Tusk, instead proposed the longest extension, to 30 March 2020. There is always an option of flexibility but the commitment of the United Kingdom to participate in the next European elections.

Your vision is too pessimistic, even if in some respects it can be understood, so what about Greece and what it had to endure? It is not in these conditions that good decisions are made. I do not believe that the EU will end and I still hope that the British will not leave. This story is going on in a very little "English" way and maybe even they didn't expect such not positive results.

I heard this one a few days ago on TV at the news of 8:00 pm. The English have coined a new verb "To Brexit". The meaning: when someone goes to a Party and at a certain point says : "it is late, I have to go". And remains. It should be a defective verb: To Brexit, Brexit, Brexit.(Lovera)

In our days the system are more artificial of those with a natural structure. I than tend to avoid to have many biddings with steps.

Ok, but this one is artificial for me 🙂.

I agree about splinter that i don 't like much while for i.e. 1♥-3NT is 15-17 balanced with points in the other three suits and xx as heart supp.

I've infact said 1M-3M bal. 14-18, 1M-2NT unbal.(+5-4-2-2 shape) 14-18, 1♠-4♠ instead is 6-8 five spade supp. or better my Keycard Oklahoma (*)1♠-4♣ idem with 1 Key (A/K of spade), 1♠-3♠ is 6-11 if interferred while in 1M-2m answer of partner sure 12/+ points and a second bid or a delayed raise with 12-13 points raising opener at third level. (*)=As i have already said in "1♥-p-4♥" (topic-see) i use "Oklahoma" convention to give partner information of number of Ace(s) in this way : it's estabilished by this conv. that 4♣=1 Ace, 4♦=2 Aces whilest with no ace 4 of trump and opener values if information serves and if not corrects in 4 of trump. But because i see you like insert keycard and to have two Aces could be minus frequent it can change in 4♣=1 keycard, 4♦=2 keycards and 4 of trump with 0 keycard (termed "keycard-Oklahoma").

What you say is interesting but I'm trying to put the 2NT Jacoby in my system without changing much the structure is therefore keeping 1M-3M forcing (with range 14-18 and balanced hands) in this way still partly and using 2NT for the remaining unbalanced hands. The indication of the site of Pattaya Bridge is made to widen the "turn of horizon" presenting other declarative eventualities and for the examples of hands. The answers to the 2NT Jacoby are therefore: 3x is shortness in unbalanced minimum hand, 4M minimum hand without slam vision, 3M undefined shortness in good maximum hand and 3NT idem w / o shortness trying to avoid, by balancing all this, to complicate a system that I tend to keep it as natural as possible.

It you get the Pattaya Bridge.com in Convention and click on Jacoby 2NT and then in " Raising Partner's major with a big hand " you can find 11 hands termed with letters from A to L.The Hands D,E,G,J,L are the hands bidded with the answer 2NT (and where you can splinter or use Keycard Swiss there) whilest the other ones those raised with 3♥/♠ .

Is it only indicate here briefly the strong raise.

I already use a system with a strong raise (1M-3M) and want ultheriorly define it changing the 2NT answer at a major suit opener as indicate in my post #2.

What I did (and then I discovered to have been thought of also by A. Gumperz: see this answer in Limited bidding ....:"Hendrik SharplesI've been using 3C as stiff / void 11 + -14- or 17+, 3D stiff 14+ - 17, and 3H as minimum, figuring we need room to sort out the shortness, and rarely need delicate tools 4 out of the major show 6 to AKQ or at least one out of control. We can't use 2NT as LR plus with this structure Have you had any experience with using a higher step for the minimum balanced? May 11, 2012  Andrew Gumperz I have not. When it is clearly the limit. I specifically want to separate the balanced and unbalanced mins with my first response for that reason. I agree with you that you are less balanced, delicate tools have less value - you are going to require either a stiff or a mountain from responder. I also like the idea of ​​4M as a picture bid - a trump heavy opener May 11, 2012") is to separate the hands between balanced and unbalanced. In this way: both for the one and the other distribution the response range is 14-18 1M-3M forcing only for the three balanced ones while for the unbalanced (1M-2NT)ones also including the 5-4-2-2 the answer is used 2NT Jacoby and the four basic answers.

I ask that others BBFs intervene to expand the talking about the "Jacoby 2NT" remaining from what I indicated in my first posts.

Don't let me alone to talk, i want to have your thinkings about this topic.

Having provided, for my part, various information sources and this topic being dealt with on Bridgewinners also by our BBFs, as you can see, I believe that here too the discourse can open up for the purpose also of a fruitful informative and sharing discourse even if for different ways management of this, considering that this is also a good convention currently used.

I've inserted directly two url in post #1; in Pattaya Bridge Club, in Convention, you click on "Jacoby 2NT" and when you are into, at the bottom of that page, see also "Raising Partner's Major with a big hand". Just as indicated (with the editing) now there is also the Bridgewinner content as third url.

It's also interesting to read this about:http://www.districts...%202006-06.aspx

The point of view for the use of 2NT as Jacoby, however, is different as this statement is used by me in conjunction with the strong support of 14-18 points in an unbalanced hand (including also the 5-4-2-2) while with the hands balanced (4-3-3-3, 4-4-3-2, 5-3-3-2) should be bidded directly to jump to level three (1M-3M).The answers to 2NT are: 3 aside of the trump suit as shortness (0/1 cards), 3NT balanced13-15 points even in just three colors, 4 in trump minimal hand is excluding the slam, 3 in the suit of trump as good balanced hand.The respondent is alert for the slam if he has a control in the suit of the shortness or if the opener answer 3M and begins the sequence of cue bids with maximum hand if he/she does not have covered all the suits otherwise it proceeds with RKB. The off-scale declaration is reserved for the Exclusion meaning jump at the fourth level and this declaration also together with the cues but in this case the Exclusion is with a jump to interrupt the sequence of cue bids.

In fact the use of this jump bidding in response to an opening in a major suit denotes little support in suit bidded by opener with force distributed in the other three suits in a balanced hand and with a different meaning was my belief that it could alter the system I used. But now I am reconsidering this aspect: in this case, with the same meaning, we can delay the response proceeding via 2x-2NT 12-14 points (delaying a direct 2NT) and reteining 3NT instead as a direct jump on 1M with 15-17 points.