All In One – Lesson 6

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21. 2♥. You have all the ingredients necessary for a reverse (opening a lower ranking suit and rebidding a higher ranking suit at the two-level). This rebid describes strength of 17-21 points and an unbalanced hand with more clubs than hearts.

22. 2♥. A low-level cue bid (bidding the opponent’s bid suit at the two or three-level) by a previously passed hand always shows support for partner’s bid suit. It also sends that message that your hand has gone up in value by hearing partner’s bid. Your hand is not worth an opening bid, but worth 13 points now that partner has bid spades.

23. 3♠. With 11 to 12 points as responder you should make an invitational bid by bidding a suit at the three-level previously bid by either member of the partnership.

24. 2♥. A new suit is not forcing in response to an overcall. That hardly matters since you do not have a five- card suit anyway. But if partner holds a reasonable hand with a four card spade suit then game could be in the cards. With a good hand and a partner that has overcalled the only way to force the bidding and get additional information is with a low-level cue bid. The message attached to the cue bid is always “I have a good hand for the previous bidding and I am not sure where we belong. Please give additional information about your hand.” Additional information might be a second suit (just bid it) or a stopper in the opponent’s suit (bid notrump). Here you can use it to find a spade game or a no trump game. If partner rebids diamonds you should just pass.