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Five-suit bridge is a late 1930s variation of contract bridge played with a deck of 65 playing cards divided into five suits. History
Bridge partnerships who use five-card majors need some kind of short club [4] opening bid. The most common practice is for 1 ♣ to promise at least a three-card club suit, indicating that opener has: at least 13 points and interest in winning the contract, no five-card major (else opener would have bid it, unless also holding a six-card or ...
A hand-strength requirement of at least 12-13 points to open 1-of-a-suit. Five-card majors: opening a major suit promises at least a five-card holding in that suit. Weak two bids: Two diamond, heart or spade openers are made with a sound six-card suit in a hand without enough overall strength to open 1 of the suit.
In natural systems, most bids (especially in the early phase of the bidding) denote length in the suit bid. In artificial systems, the bids are more highly codified, so that for example a bid of 1 ♣ may not be related to a holding in the club suit. Natural system(s) are the "lingua franca" of bridge players, with regional variations. Thus, a ...
For a 4-4-3-2 pattern, one needs to specify which suit contains the three-card and which suit contains the doubleton in order to identify the length in each of the four suits. There are four possibilities to first identify the three-card suit and three possibilities to next identify the doubleton.
Kaplan preferred to open 1 ♠ with 5-5 in the black suits and a minimum hand. Minor suit openings are strong or unbalanced, or both, because the weak no trump handles all weak, balanced hands. A 1NT rebid by opener shows a strong no trump (15–17 HCP) and a 2NT rebid shows 18–20 HCP. Opener's reverses are forcing.
Play the classic trick-taking card game. Lead with your strongest suit and work with your partner to get 2 points per hand.
In contract bridge, Bergen raises are conventional treatments of responses to a major suit opening in a five-card major system. [1] Developed by Marty Bergen and first published in April 1982, [2] Bergen raises are based on the Law of total tricks, a hand evaluation concept which states that with a combined nine trumps in the partnership one should compete to at least the three-level ...