drewolson

Thanks for all the discussion so far, it's been very enlightening and given me and my partner a lot to digest on the hand.

Thanks for the comments so far. For the sake of discussion, assume it is passed around to E (it was on our hand, I didn't want to open as W). Without intervention, what would be your "ideal" sequence?

[hv=pc=n&s=s543hqjt843dkcj96&w=sqt862h2d8caqt754&n=sk97h765dj963ck83&e=sajhak9daqt7542c2]399|300|South deals[/hv] Partner and I picked up these hands at a club game this weekend. I was sitting W. We had a bad bidding miscommunication, but even after the game looking at the diagrams, I'm unsure how these hands should have been bid. How would you bid them?

What books (or other techniques) would you recommends for something relatively competent in SAYC to learn 2/1? I have a general understanding of the system, I've read a few PDFs and the wikipedia page, etc.