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Bridge Basics : basics biding question
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Recommend  Message 3 of 11 in Discussion 
From: MSN NicknamePriorKnowledge  in response to Message 1Sent: 5/5/2003 7:03 PM
I remind other respondants that this is the Bridge Basics board.
 
Any bid over 2N rebid is a GF. Some play complex conventions or NMF here.
 
Since you have BOTH majors and can easily lose a 4-4 major fit, I would rebid 1H rather than 2N. Although Lorne treats this sequence as forcing, all agree that it is almost forcing. Trust partner not to pass with any hand that would produce game opposite this hand.
 
Save the game-forcing, jump-shift 2H rebid for more powerful distributional hands with 5c/4h.
 
The hand is also too weak for a GF JS. If partner gave you a courtesy response with something like xxx/xxx/KQxxx/xx, game has little chance.


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     re: basics biding question   JoAnneM  11/9/2003 2:26 AM