Hilver

Pass, You still have a LHO and a partner, and otherwise you will defend 2♣ Jan

Well, accordig to your agreements You have 7 HCP. So don't overbid and double. Jan

Revison (modified) by John Montgomery Jan

The actual hand of the 3♥-bidder: ♠ A J 9 5 3 ♥ K 9 7 ♦ 6 ♣ A K 3 2 Jan

What is in your opinion about 3♥ in this bidding sequence: 1♠ - (2♦) - 2♠ - (3♦) 3♥ (1♠ = 5+-card ♠; 2♠ = 6-9 HCP, 3+-card ♠) 3♥ is: 1. 4-card ♥ (competitive) 2. 5-card ♥ (competitive) 3. trial bid (short suit trial / long suit trial / help suit trial) = invite to 4♠ 4. something else? Thx Jan

Openers hand: ♠ A x x ♥ A K 10 9 ♦ A 10 x ♣ A K Q

2NT would have meant 22+ HP, balanced; not more then 2 spades.

Playing a Big Club (Precision style)You hold: ♠K Q 7 5 3 ♥9 7 4 ♦J 9 2 ♣10 4 Your partner opens 1♣, Your RHO bids 1♦, You bid 1♠ (= 5/6-card ♠, 5-8 HCP). LHO passess, and partner rebids 2♦(= GF). RHO passess and You bid 2♠. LHO passes again and now partner bids 3♦(= denying any 5+-suit). So the bidding: 1♣ - (1♦) - 1♠ - (pass) 2♦ - (pass) - 2♠ - (pass) 3♦ - (pass) - ? What do You respond now? Thx Jan

♣You hold sitting West: ♠ A K 10 ♥ A 7 ♦ K Q 10 8 6 4 ♣ A 10 You play a Precsionstyle Big Club. The bidding West North East South 1♣* 4♥ 5♥ pass ? 1♣ = 16+ HCP, strong balanced (20+ HCP) or any 16+ unbalanced hand. Your bid please and most of all why? Made a mistake in using card symbols in the poll. The options are: 5NT 6♦ 6NT 7♦ 7NT Thx Jan

As already mentioned, show your suit)s' first. So, start with 2♥. Maybe you get an opportunity to bid clubs as well.

I agree. yep As you guys wish but the fact that opener denies 16-19 balanced makes action safer. If you pass, opener may not bid 3NT on his 20-count with ♥-Qxx or Jxx. ♥K is in the wrong suit but it increases the chance of no wastage opposite. You might assume that double is GF, that responder can't pass 4♣/♦ but that is unstated. Guess I'll raise anyway. Double is limit plus not GF.

Your partnership plays a Big Club system. Opening 1♣ implies: a. a strong balanced 21+ HCP, or b. any 16+ HCP unbalanced one or two suiter, or c. 16+ HCP 4-4-4-1. Sitting East in an IMP-match, all white, the auction starts: West North East South 1♣ 3♥ ? 3♥ = preemptive A. Sitting East you hold: ♠ 9 8 6 5 2 ♥ K ♦ 10 7 6 4 ♣ Q 7 5 What is your bid? And why? B. Now you hold: ♠ J 9 7 5 ♥ K 8 ♦ K J 8 3 ♣ Q 7 5 Again your bid, please? And most of all why? Thx Jan

Sorry, remove a small club. Thanks for your replies Jan

Playing classic Precision, how would you open the hand below? 1♣ or would you just bid 1♥? MP's all white ♠ --- ♥ 10 9 8 4 2 ♦ A Q 10 ♣ A K Q 7 6 3 1. What are your arguments against opening 1♣? 2. What are your arguments in favour of opening 1♥? Thx Jan

MP's West/all red You play a Big Club system with a strong NT (16-18) and the opening bid of 1♦ promises 10-15 HCP, 2+-card ♦ and denying a 5-card in the majors. 1♦ also denies 6-card ♣. Sitting South You hold: ♠ A 4 ♥ K 8 4 ♦ A 7 5 ♣ K 8 7 5 2 The auction: West----North----East----South pass----pass-----pass----1♦* pass----pass-----1♠----pass pass----2♦--------2♥-----? Well, what card in the biddingbox is Your choice and most of all why? Jan

Playing a Big Club (Precisionstyle) what defnce do you play against Modified CRASH as defined: Double: Promises a Heart suit with good to semi-solid values. 1♦: Promises a Spade suit with good to semi-solid values. 1♥: Promises a two-suited holding of the same color: either Spades and Clubs or Hearts and Diamonds. The two suits are unspecified but must contain at least a 4-4 distribution with values located in the suits. 1♠: Promises a two-suited holding of the same rank: either both Major suits or both Minor suits. The two suits are unspecified but must contain at least a 4-4 distribution with values located in the suits. 1NT: Promises a two-suited holding of the same shape: either Rounded, Hearts and Clubs, or Pointed, Spades and Diamonds. The two suits are unspecified but must contain at least a 4-4 distribution with values located in the suits. My pard and I just play all our bids natural. Do you advice another approach? Jan

When I started playing Precision in 1986, I started reading C.C. Wei's The Precision Bidding System in Bridge (1969). It's an convincing book to make a start. Then I read Charles Gorens Precision System of Contract Bridge Bidding (1971). It is that Old Red Book, an easy outline to understand the basics of Precision Next I studied Match Point Precision (1975) by C.C. Wei and Ron Andersen. This book was followed by Power Precision by Alan Sontag. From 1986 onwards tot 1993 I played Precison based on the ideas of Goren and a bit of Sontag. In 2005 my current partner and I decided to play a Big Club. After an investigation of i.e. The Viking Precision Club written by Glenn Groetheim and several other relay systems such as Mosquito, we read The Revison Club by John Montgomery a very good write up of a Precisionlike biddingsystem. You can download this book for free at http://www.geocities.com/daniel_neill_2000/sys/. At least Foreword and Introduction of this book should be read by any serious bridgeplayer, no matter what level. My pard and used the basics of The Revision Club to develop our own version of this bidding system. Well, I wish to a lot of success in choosing a version of Precison. Just one more sentence, choose a system you feel comfortable with.

Playing a Big Club system, what are your agreements in this auction: 1♣ - (3♥) - ? What would you suggest should be the meaning of: * double * 3♠ * 3NT * 4♣/4♦? Jan Veerbeek

Just play Transfer advances. http://homepage.mac.com/bridgeguys/pdf/Smi...ferAdvances.pdf http://franksbridgesystem.com/182.html You don't lose your natural 2NT.

In my partnership we just use this simple defence. No problem so far.

Take a look at http://www.bridgehands.com/G/Good_Bad_2_Notrump.htm Jan Veerbeek

I just like to know what you regard as the best meaning of the openingbids of 4♣ or 4♦ ? Should it be a preemptive in ♣ or ♦ ? Or is it better to play it as a 7+ card ♥ /♠ headed by AKQ(J) and no HCP's in the other suits?

Here are four different situations. In which of these cases you think it´s ok to play Ghestem or Michaels cuebid to show a two-suiter? And also: in those situations where you think it´s fine to play Ghestem or Michaels, what should these bids promise? 1. In the direct seat, for example: 1S - 2S 2. In the balancing seat, for example: 1S - pass - pass - 2S 3. In the direct seat with a passed hand, for example: pass - pass - pass - 1S 2S 4. In the balancing seat with a passed hand pass - 1S - pass - pass 2S Thanks.

Take a look at http://homepage.mac.com/bridgeguys/pdf/Smi...ferAdvances.pdf My pard and I play transfer advances as described by Marc Smith. It's effective.

3♥ should be 5-card hearts and a maximum NT-opening bid. 2♣ is weak. limit or strong. So 3♥ is the agreed trump suit and 4♣ a control bid.