Bridge is for Everyone - Learn to Play #15 - Longer Suits
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 ก.ค. 2024
- Learn to play or improve your Bridge game with a modern approach to bidding and play. This is Episode 15: Longer Suits. Three different situations which show how to bid after you open one of a 6-card or longer suit and do not find a fit with partner.
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0:00 Intro
0:19 Deal #401
4:22 Deal #309
8:30 Deal #330
12:35 Outro - แนวปฏิบัติและการใช้ชีวิต
This is a brilliant high quality learning series ~ thank you so much!
Excellent series .
Jad, do we only re-bid our opening suit if we have 6 or more cards in that suit? What if we have a hand of only lets say 5 cards suit? Such as 5/5/2/1 or 5/4/3/1 ?
Hi Bogdan. The only 5 card suit you can rebid without support from Partner is Clubs. You should find a fit with Partner's suit, have a second suit to bid or be able to bid NT.
Hi, Jab Thankyou for your wonderful lessons. I have learned a lot. Can you please explain to me: Because your initial bid of 1C, may be made with as few as 2 Club at 11:53 I thought that we have to have 6 clubs to rebid. Thank you again.
Hi Nelson. This is a great question. Here is the way I look at this situation. With major suits, you open with 5 and need only one extra card to rebid the suit. With the minor suit Diamonds, you open with 4 and need an extra two to rebid it. So, with these three suits, you need 6 to rebid the suit. But with Clubs you may only have two when you open. Two extra would be four, but you can never rebid a 4 card suit. So, you need at least 5 to rebid Clubs. The main result of this system is that if you bid NT instead of rebidding Clubs, your partner knows that you had at most 4 Clubs and will only bid clubs if they also have 4. I hope this helps.
Thank you very much for your quick reply. I enjoy so much going through your lessons. thanks again.Jab@@jadbridge
@@sophiekong you are always welcome.
12:08 May I know what happens if I bid a 1NT here as no fit is found? Is 2C the better bid?
Hi. If you bid 1NT you will probably have a huge problem in Hearts. The club bid is better because it tells your partner that your club suit is real and you have 5+.
Good day M Delokk, I have a question about partner's response of a new suit which is forcing. Is it the same in a competitive bidding if the opposition bid at the same level or one level up? What about if partner bid the new suit at the 2 level, still forcing? Thank you!! I am so happy I can turn to you with my numerous questions!!!
Hi JD. I have a few points for you. First, Responder’s new suit is only forcing if they have not already passed. Second, the purpose of Responder’s force is to ensure they get another bid. So, if your right hand opponent bids, you can pass because Responder will get another bid. This is very powerful if you have nothing more to tell Responder. Third, only Responder’s new suit id forcing, Opener’s new suit isn’t. Fourth, Responder’s new suit is forcing at any level below 3NT. I am always happy to answer questions.
@@jadbridge Hello M Delokk! Thank you for your clarifications on the forcing bid.I understand the first, second and fourth points but I am confused about the third. I thought that if responder never passed and our team is the only one bidding, as long as each bid was a new suit it was forcing. I remember in one of your videos it went 1C, 1D, !H and finally 1S and if I remember correctly it was forcing the whole time. Did I get that wrong? Also, if I want to sign off because I described my hand already and have nothing more to say and I am forced to bid do I have to choose between going NT at the cheapest level or raise partner's suit? Again, thank you very much for helping me out!!
Hi JD. In the sequence you give, the 1H bid by opener is not forcing. Responder could pass with a minimum hand and a heart fit. This is possible because Partner can assess that game is out of reach.
Hi JD. Re part two of your comment. If you need to bid and have nothing more to say, bid the strain you think will be best, but don’t make a bid that deceives your partner. This can take a little thought, but if you look at it from Partner’s point of view you will be good.
@@jadbridge This is great advice!! If I put myself in partner's place it makes it easier to know what to do. With over 600 billions different possible hands, there is always a new situation to face. This is what I love about this game!!!
not sure why you add length points before finding a fit
Hi Guy. Thanks for your question. In general we add long points to our high card points to give a more accurate estimate of the value of the hand. Long suits are useful in general because the extra card or cards can often be used to take a very cheap trick, even if it is not in the trump suit. In the near future I will be covering this in one of the “how to play” lessons, probably episode 36.
What is the J process?
Thanks for the question Brett. The J process is the system for choosing which suit to bid from two or more possible suits. In summary, with equal longest biddable suits, choose the highest ranking for suits of 5 or more cards, but choose the cheapest bid with only 4 cards.