1. Raise to 2S. Dont forget to raise partner when you have something. By raising now, you will get to obstruct opener a little. Worse if you pass, you seldom get a second chance.
2.Bid 3S! By uising the jump raise as weak, you can make your opps work harder. This hand has the prper ingredients. It has 4 trumps (mandatory for a junmp raise) good shape,and not many points.
3.A little good for a raise to 2S. Cue-bid 2Ds (UCB) Cue bidding then showing support implies 11 to a crummie 13 pts. This hand has poor shape, but the high cards are a little better than minimum. It is important to have this understanding. If you an raise with a 7 pt hand AND an 11 pt hand, your partner will be a basket case trying to know what to do. Use the UCB to help define your raises.
4. Just raise to 2S This is close to max.you might later compete to 3S but would prefer to play in 2S
5.PASS The problem is location of values and shape.Everything about this hand is wrong.change the hand to KQ7, 9874,1053,1094 one HCP fewer and keeping the terrible shape,and youi should raise to 2S. \The number of points is not the problem, the quality of them is.
6. Raise to 2S.this is a good hand for a raise. It has good points and shape. The only flaw is the 3 wee Spades but is only a mild flaw given the rest of the hand.
7. This hand shows 1 final treatment. You have a good hand that is willing to try for game. The difference between this hand and the bal. 11 count you had earlier, is that you have super trumps and great shape as well. The way to show a great hand like this is to jump cue-bid. Bid 3Ds. On this hand you happen to have a singlton. You might have shortness elsewhere.The idea behind the jump cue-bid isto show the nature of your hand, not the spcific details. NOTE you can use this over a neg. dbl. or over a pass, or for that mattere if RHO bids 1NT too.
There were 3 hands out of the above examples thqat raised to 2S. After Easts 3S bid, do you go on with any of them?
What does Easts 3S mean? How do YOU play it? Is it competative? Or is it a Game Try? You must know what 3S means in order to know what to do! If it is invit. you should bid game on 4 and 6 and probebly on 1 as well
HOWEVER if your partnership plays 3S as copetaive you MUST pass
For the record, the majority of good players have adopted the competative method
The obvious question is if 3S is competative, how does E make a game try? If there is room for E to bid something below 3 of trump suit, he bids that. On this hand E must bid 3Ds or 3Hs to ask W if he is max.
If the opps have competed to 3 of a suit just below your side's suit, the game try is double.
2.Bid 3S! By uising the jump raise as weak, you can make your opps work harder. This hand has the prper ingredients. It has 4 trumps (mandatory for a junmp raise) good shape,and not many points.
3.A little good for a raise to 2S. Cue-bid 2Ds (UCB) Cue bidding then showing support implies 11 to a crummie 13 pts. This hand has poor shape, but the high cards are a little better than minimum. It is important to have this understanding. If you an raise with a 7 pt hand AND an 11 pt hand, your partner will be a basket case trying to know what to do. Use the UCB to help define your raises.
4. Just raise to 2S This is close to max.you might later compete to 3S but would prefer to play in 2S
5.PASS The problem is location of values and shape.Everything about this hand is wrong.change the hand to KQ7, 9874,1053,1094 one HCP fewer and keeping the terrible shape,and youi should raise to 2S. \The number of points is not the problem, the quality of them is.
6. Raise to 2S.this is a good hand for a raise. It has good points and shape. The only flaw is the 3 wee Spades but is only a mild flaw given the rest of the hand.
7. This hand shows 1 final treatment. You have a good hand that is willing to try for game. The difference between this hand and the bal. 11 count you had earlier, is that you have super trumps and great shape as well. The way to show a great hand like this is to jump cue-bid. Bid 3Ds. On this hand you happen to have a singlton. You might have shortness elsewhere.The idea behind the jump cue-bid isto show the nature of your hand, not the spcific details. NOTE you can use this over a neg. dbl. or over a pass, or for that mattere if RHO bids 1NT too.
There were 3 hands out of the above examples thqat raised to 2S. After Easts 3S bid, do you go on with any of them?
What does Easts 3S mean? How do YOU play it? Is it competative? Or is it a Game Try? You must know what 3S means in order to know what to do! If it is invit. you should bid game on 4 and 6 and probebly on 1 as well
HOWEVER if your partnership plays 3S as copetaive you MUST pass
For the record, the majority of good players have adopted the competative method
The obvious question is if 3S is competative, how does E make a game try? If there is room for E to bid something below 3 of trump suit, he bids that. On this hand E must bid 3Ds or 3Hs to ask W if he is max.
If the opps have competed to 3 of a suit just below your side's suit, the game try is double.