The Complete Book on Balancing in Contract Bridge by Mike Lawrence

Author:Mike Lawrence
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780939460885
Publisher: Baron Barclay

Opener passes, your partner makes a minimum bid, and RHO bids something.

When the bidding becomes competitive, you have slightly different guidelines when it comes to raising your partner.

NO ONE VUL ♠ A 5 4

W N E S ♥ Q J 10 7

1♣ P P Dbl ♦ A 8 6 3

P 1♥ 2♣ ? ♣ 4 2

Bid 2♥. You would not raise if RHO had passed. But he didn’t. He made a belated raise to 2♣. You raise here to show good trumps and a bit more than some of the real minimum hands you could have. Your partner can have a decent hand with 9 or 10 points and not feel like bidding a poor suit again. Your four-card support gives you reason to be aggressive.

This means that if the auction becomes competitive, you can be freer in raising your partner. The cost of their buying the contract is high when you could have made something or could have pushed them up one level.

NO ONE VUL ♠ A J 8 7

W N E S ♥ 10 9 5

1♣ P P Dbl ♦ A J 8 2

1♥ 1♠ 2♥ ? ♣ 9 3

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