Weak two bids

[diana_eva]

I split redspawn's example hand and follow up discussion to a separate thread here.

[aguahombre]

I split redspawn's example hand and follow up discussion to a separate thread here.

I was thinking of a better place to put it.

[RedSpawn]

That's silly. You really want partner to sit with something like:

 

void♠

QJTxxx♥

Qxxxxx♦

x♣

 

Of course you don't. Yes, 99% of the time, partner is going to sit for it. If you preempt, you generally never bid again unless partner forces you to. But there are oddball exceptions to every "rule" in bridge.

 

Mike

 

Here is part of the problem. A weak 2 bid used to be narrowly defined so your partner will have a quick "snapshot" of your hand much like a crisp, clean strong 1NT bid describing a balanced hand with 15-17 HCP.

 

However, that picture becomes fuzzy once again when you try to attach a void suit and a 5 card minor suit as a possibility to what was once narrowly defined.

 

K&R rates this hand as perfectly average at 9.90 points (given distribution) and I will buy that.

 

That makes this hand perfectly average with nothing interesting to report yet, but I have this feeling that once partner comes alive, your hand's value with shoot through the roof. There are times you need to jam up your opponents and there are other times that you need to let nature take its course. Let nature takes it course. Let your partner in on the fun and do not preemptively rob him of the chance to describe his hand by force fitting a weak 2 bid for this 6-6-1-0 hand. This hand is so distributional that it has that 6-5+ freakish thing going on so you can start doing some nice things after you pass 1st round.

 

Let your partner do his job 1st. If partner decides to pass, have a little fun with this hand afterwards -- you definitely have the distribution to give the opponents a run for their money.

[Vampyr]

Here is part of the problem. A weak 2 bid used to be narrowly defined so your partner will have a quick "snapshot" of your hand much like a crisp, clean strong 1NT bid describing a balanced hand with 15-17 HCP.

 

However, that picture becomes fuzzy once again when you try to attach a void suit and a 5 card minor suit as a possibility to what was once narrowly defined.

 

K&R rates this hand as perfectly average at 9.90 points (given distribution) and I will buy that.

 

That makes this hand perfectly average with nothing interesting to report yet, but I have this feeling that once partner comes alive, your hand's value with shoot through the roof. There are times you need to jam up your opponents and there are other times that you need to let nature take its course. Let nature takes it course. Let your partner in on the fun and do not preemptively rob him of the chance to describe his hand by force fitting a weak 2 bid for this 6-6-1-0 hand. This hand is so distributional that it has that 6-5+ freakish thing going on so you can start doing some nice things after you pass 1st round.

 

Let your partner do his job 1st. If partner decides to pass, have a little fun with this hand afterwards -- you definitely have the distribution to give the opponents a run for their money.

 

Definitely an average hand with nothing interesting to report.

 

Passing and then acting after partner passes will be anything but fun.