lycier Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 ♠：QJT87654 ♥：A ♦：AKQJ ♣：---How to open? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broze Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 I think my p and have an agreement that opening 5 of a major asks partner to bid 6 with the A or K of trump and 7 with both. It has never come up... EDIT: Without that, how about. 2♣ - whatever3♠ (setting trump) - whatever5♣ - exclusion RKCB. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lycier Posted January 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 Open 2♣?After open 2♣,opps maybe have great chances to be preemptive at 4♥,even at 5♣,now how do you handle to show your a long ♠ hand without any losers in the side suits? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
masse24 Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 5♠Right out of The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge Larry Cohen also wrote about this in My Favorite 52. (pgs. 9-12) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lycier Posted January 26, 2013 Author Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 5♠Right out of The Official Encyclopedia of Bridge Larry Cohen also wrote about this in My Favorite 52. (pgs. 9-12) Hi:Can you help me? I can't get that information from your link with some reasons,so please email to me.my email: sinobbo@163.com Thank you very much in advance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
S2000magic Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 5♠ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegmund Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 I read about that 5S opening in Patricia Fox Sheinwold's Husbands and Other Men I've Played With in 1993. Twenty years later I am still waiting to be dealt a hand where I can use it. In all fairness, I have seen exactly one hand in that time when I wished I could open a preemptive 5M (an extreme example of the "3 or 5 hand" you sometimes get with long hearts and short spades), and no other meanings for a 5M opening besides those two have crossed my mind. Maybe I need to agree to play 5S asks for trump honors but 5H is a preempt! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
broze Posted January 26, 2013 Report Share Posted January 26, 2013 Open 2♣?After open 2♣,opps maybe have great chances to be preemptive at 4♥,even at 5♣,now how do you handle to show your a long ♠ hand without any losers in the side suits? Well, I suggested 5♠ (did you read that part of my post?) which is clearly best but without this gadget I can't see that you're any more vulnerable to pre-emption when you open 1♠. If you do, partner will never believe you're this strong. If it does go 2♣-(4♥)-P-P-5♠ partner should still raise you to 6 with A or K and 7 with both, even if you don't specifically have that agreement. The downside is that he might raise you with the A♣ which is why opening 5♠ obviously works best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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