After looking at 1000 unique strong two suiters, I have decided to go with New MisIry, despite the downside of losing a natural 2NT opening bid.
This leaves the question of what a 3&heart; opening bid and 3@spade opening bid means. I am not sure what is best. 3♥ as spade preempt and 3♠ as any solid suit is the easiest for me to implement, so that is what I am doing for now. But ideas would be welcome. Soon the MisIry link on inquiry2over1 will be deleted and replaced with a rewritten New MisIry one which will be the way this will be played in my system.
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
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Easily solved. Have your multi include weak 2 in a major, balanced 20-21, or 4441 type hand 20+. After 2D-2H, then 2S is weak 2 in spades, 2NT is bal 20-21 (with normal continuations) and 3C-3S is suit below the singleton.
After 2D - 2S (willing to play in 3H), then 3C is transfer to 3H, and all other bids are suit below the singleton (3S is singleton club and 3NT is singleton diamond).
After 2D-2NT (you should be so lucky), 3C-3S are normal responses when you have weak 2, 3NT is bal 20-21, and 4 level are suit below singleton. Easy enough to handle and is commonly enough played. Then 2C rebid 2NT can be your stronger NT. I wouldn't worry so much about the strong 3-suiters as they are fairly rare.
-Echo
Well, this solves one problem, while introducing three new ones.
The first is it removes my Acol two in a minor from my opening 2D. This has a ripple down effect on a number of other auctions. 1) The 1m-1M-3M, 2) The 2C-2D-3m (which I play as GF as it is too good for acol 2D opening), 3) the ability to put on the brakes in 3C with "strong" three suiter including clubs, and in some cases (with singleton spade), the inability to play in 3D as well.
As far as the strong 3 suiter being rare, that is fairly true. The advantage of the system I play is that I choose to open "strong" three suiters iwth a lot less hcp than most who even play specialized three suit bids.
The lose of the ability to open 2NT is not horrible, in practice, because if partner responds, and you have 20-21 hcp, you have enough to be in game. The only problem is that 1) the jump to 3NT can't be the long running suit hand (probably ok, since we have acol 2D available anyway), and 2) it is clear you wrong-side a fair number of 4 of a major contracts. Of course, the 3NT contracts take care of themselves. A side benefit, the dread 2NT-p-p-p hands are gone. You can almost always make 1C or 1D if partner passes you out in that strain.
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