[mike777]

http://advocate.home.insightbb.com/

The above link goes to my old old old home town District web page by Karen Walker. She does a terrific job.

[Double !]

Speaking about Karen Walker:
she wrote a series of articles for the acbl bulletin a while back about bidding 5-6 hands with limited opening high card count values (no mention of zars or ltc's, etc to my recollection). If memory serves me well, she presented the idea of playing a jump-reverse into the major as a method for showing such hands (versus splinters, min-splinters, etc). I am curious if anyone out there is playing this style?


She also has an entry in her web site about bidding weak 4-6 hands (4M-6m) after P's 1NT rebid. (e.g: 1D-1M-1N-3C = weak 4-6, to play in 3C. How many of you play this? Does anyone play the sequence 1NT-2C-2grapes-3m to play (a weak 4-6)? If yes, how do you show GI and GF 4-6 hands?

[PriorKnowledge]

the first one 1D 1M 1N 3C = weak 4-6 to play is standard when playing New Minor Forcing

1N 2C 2D 3C = weak 4M6c is part of extended Garbage Stayman. Many experts play this, but it is not standard.

[Double !]

I play both, but it then creates the need for discussion of how to show GI or GF 4-6 when playing 4-suit transfers with pre-acceptance. I have my own ideas, but they run opposite of "traditional wisdom" (is that an oxymoron?) or commonly accepted "expert" bidding.

I have yet to try the 5-6 jump-reverse that K.W. wrote about. Would be curious to hear from people who have or do play it.

[PriorKnowledge]

The 5-6 jump reverse does not come up as much as the mini-splinter. I can bid the 5-6 simply by reversing and bidding again, but have no other way to show the mini-splinter.

So why have 2 ways to show one unlikely hand and no ways to show a more common hand?

[Fluffy]

Double !, on Jun 7 2005, 07:30 PM, said:

She also has an entry in her web site about bidding weak 4-6 hands (4M-6m) after P's 1NT rebid. (e.g: 1D-1M-1N-3C = weak 4-6, to play in 3C. How many of you play this? Does anyone play the sequence 1NT-2C-2grapes-3m to play (a weak 4-6)? If yes, how do you show GI and GF 4-6 hands?

Hi the 1 I most liek is french Roudi:

after 1m
1M-1NT
2♦ is to play direcly at the 2 level
2NT is transfer to 3♣, to play 3♣ os show a limit 4-6 in ♦.
2♣ is a limit+ relay, partner responses are 4 steps showing support and strenght:

2♦ /2♥ /2♠ /2NT
min/min/max/max
2cM/3cM/3cM/2cM

Another way to handle is with XYZ:

after 1m
1M-1NT
2♣ is trransfer to 2♦ showing either a limit hand or passing and playing 2♦.
2♦ is a GF hand
3♣ is to play


You don't have problems with strong ones, because strong ones always start bidding the longest suit: the minor.

[Fluffy]

About 5-6 I open 100% of the time the higer one, the only convention I play about it is that:

1♠-1NT
4♥ =6♠+5♥

while

1♠-1NT
4♦ =5♠+6♥

[Double !]

agree that xyz makes life easier.

the issue of the weak 5-6 is more important to me: it indirectly caused me to get 0 points for my created reverse on BPO-00D, I think (qTxx,AK,AKQTxx,x. I maintained then and maintain now that the hand is too good for a 4C or 4D rebid. The idea of 3M as splinter is fine if that's the common interpretation. I might have suggested that bid instead of a reverse of 2H, in response to the hand BPO-OO2 D.
C'est la vie. (That's NYC street talk meaning that I want an appeals committee lololololol).

Muchas gracias, Sr. Fluffy