Passed the game try

[Finch]

I'm now curious how other British posters understand "reverse drury".

You don't seem to have had an answer to this yet. As another British poster, I would suggest that very few British players really understand anything by either Drury or reverse Drury - quite simply, no-one plays it here. (No doubt there are one or two exceptions among those brought up on the other side of the pond, but I haven't encountered any.) It is odd how conventions that seem essential in one part of the world can seem completely unnecessary elsewhere....

There are a few people who play it, even those born and bred within the sound of Bow Bells.

 

Even dburn will be playing it soon.

 

But... when partner bids 2C as a passed hand, I don't alert and call it "Drury" because

(i) many of my opponents don't know what that means

(ii) some of those who do, will think it is asking if I have a sound opening bid or not, not showing a fit, rather than the way I play it.

 

(I just say "shows about 8+ HCP and exactly 3-card support, nothing about clubs", although that part is irrelevant)

 

I would assume the given sequence shows lots of clubs if my opponents had it. If the opponents played 1H - 3C as invitational I would assume it was weaker.