Even More Competitive Bidding 5 - 571

This Week in Bridge Practice Hands

More Competitive Bidding - Spear

When the auction begins 1m – 1NT (both bids by the opponents), it is rare that we want to compete in a minor suit.  Usually in these auctions the opponents have the minors, since Responder has denied a 4-card Major.  (Even if we have a 5+card minor suit, it could still be best to pass and defend 1NT.)  In these auctions, it is effective to play a system geared towards the Major suits where we are most likely to have a fit.  Spear is an artificial system that uses all the bids at the 2-level to show different Major suit hands.  This gives us more options for how to compete in the bidding. Let’s see how it works. 

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This set accompanies TWiB 571.