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  • Lee

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    May 7, 2022 at 5:37 am in reply to: Hand of the Day 5/6/2022. Hand 5 Vul NS

    Congratulations and very well done you. I assume you are bidding in Acol where the points for a 1NT opening are 12-14? Maybe your bid paid off for this hand but in general your partner needs to have a true and accurate picture of your hand and your bid could be interpreted as misleading. With a headless spade suit, a singleton KH, a 3 card club suit to the QC and a six card diamond suit. The opening bid 1NT is not the most suitable bid in Acol or The Standard American Bidding System. If this was your system your partner would need to alert it as a a non-standard bid because you are not allowed to have secret (from the other players) bids.

  • Lee

    Administrator
    May 7, 2022 at 5:23 am in reply to: Hand of the Day 5/6/2022. Hand 5 Vul NS

    Thank you so much for commenting – I will check it out and get back to you

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The Acol Bidding System

*If you live in the UK, Ireland, Australia or New Zealand Acol is the most widespread system Acol has the following characteristics:
  • It is a natural system: most opening bids, responses and rebids are made with at least 4 cards in the suit bid, and most no trump bids are made with balanced hands.
  • It is a four-card major system: only four-card suits are required to open 1♠ or 1♥, unlike Standard American and many other systems where five-card suits are typically required.
  • It makes extensive use of limit bids: limit bids describe the hand so closely, in terms of high card points (HCP) and shape, that the one who makes the limit bid is expected to pass on the next round, unless partner makes a forcing bid.
  • Understanding and correct use of limit bids and forcing bids is fundamental to applying the system: all no trump bids below the level of 4NT are limit bids, as are all suit bids that merely repeat a suit already bid by the partnership; changes of suit may be forcing or not depending on the approach bids.
  • The level of the 1NT opening bid influences other bids: the normal choice is between a “weak no trump” (12–14 HCP) and a “strong no trump” (15–17 HCP).
  • All 1 of a suit opening bids then promise at least 4 cards in the bid suit
  • Notrump follow-up conventions include Stayman, Jacoby transfers Blackwood and Gerber Convention.
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