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Gardener 1NT overcall: to be or not to be


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i dont know if its legal or not, but i have done it before usually misleading partner and having to bid and bid my suit till the cows come home ;)

Then it's not a controlled psyche because in the Gardiner structure responder is supposed to bid 2C to find out whether or not the NT bid was comic.

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Perhaps referring to it as a controlled psyche (as opposed to a 2-way bid with destructive features) is the wrong term. The point is, it can have 2 totally different meanings and can be disruptive to the opps before it's found out when responder to the 1NT bidder checks back with 2Clubs.
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Gardener's 1NT is also known as the "Comic 1NT". It's comic if you get away with it I suppose, and it's tragic if it costs 1100! :)

 

Roland

I thought that Comic NT was the name for the variant where it is always the weak one-suiter with no strong possiblility.

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