Bidding After Strong 2c

[DrDouble]

Hi,

 

After a 2♣ opening when does bidding a suit show 5 in that suit as opposed to 4. In the case of a 2♦ Neg (0-7) and otherwise pl.

 

Beginnner Here.

 

:unsure:

[nigel_k]

The first suit bid is always five or more. You can show a four card suit if you have already bid a five card suit or NT.

 

Unbalanced hands with a four card major and five card or longer minor are difficult to bid after starting with 2♣. For this reason many people open 1 of a minor even with very strong hands, e.g. x AKJx AKJxx AKx. It's better to hope 1♦ is not passed out than to get into an auction like 2♣-2♦-3♦-3♠.

[blackshoe]

2♦ negative doesn't show anything about suit lengths. Other than that I pretty much agree with Nigel.

[Codo]

If you want to show length play it like Nigel.

 

But as you just start to set the rules for the continuations after 2 ♣ in your partnership, I would recomment other methods.

 

Partner has most often the following hands for a strong 2 ♣ opening:

A very strong NT or a big onesuiter, mostly in a major.

 

In all these cases you want to hear what partner have at the lowest possible level.

 

So I think it is of much more value to have a system where you can tell partner about your strength at the 2 level, not about your length.

[peachy]

What nigelk said.

Responder should not rush in to bid his suit (unless it is phenomenally pretty like AQJxxx). He should let opener describe his hand first. I strongly recommend you do not use 2D for "negative" and use it instead as "waiting". You can always agree to have the lowest 3-level bid be the "negative" next round or you could agree that 2C-2H is a direct "negative".