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Psyching an artificial bid


Hanoi5

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After seeing the Jacoby 2NT example above, I realized that there's a pretty common situation where we show stoppers on the 2 level: Inverted Minors. After raising a minor, a popular style is to start showing stopped suits, so partner can bid NT if they have the other suits stopped. But no one alerts this -- they do convey a meaning related to the suit bid, but not necessarily length.

I alert them.

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Inverted Minors. After raising a minor, a popular style is to start showing stopped suits, so partner can bid NT if they have the other suits stopped. But no one alerts this -- they do convey a meaning related to the suit bid, but not necessarily length.

 

I alert them.

As do I. It is not a pure example for the debate, however. The stopper-showing bids carry additional information about other suits or strength, when played by people who have thoroughly defined their follow-ups; and thus should be alerted anyway.

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