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Hand evaluation methods assess various features of a hand, including: its high card strength, shape or suit distribution, controls, fit with partner, quality of suits and quality of the whole hand. The methods range from basic to complex, requiring partners to have the same understandings and agreements about their application in their bidding ...
Bridge base basic, also known as BBO basic, is a bidding system for the game of bridge based on the Standard American Yellow Card (SAYC). It is simplified, suitable for beginners, and widely used in internet bridge, particularly on Bridge Base Online . [ 1 ]
For example, on the sequence 1 ♣-1 ♠ (with or without opponent's interfering);1NT-2 ♣;2 ♦,2 ♥ will show an invitational hand with minimum five spades and four hearts, 2 ♠ an invitational hand with minimum five spades (in which case one does not have four hearts) or possibly six spades with or without four hearts. 2NT will show a balanced invitational hand, 3 ♣ typically an ...
The general idea behind this system is to get the information about the shape of the hand (balanced or unbalanced) across to partner in the first bid. The opening bids in boring club can be summarised as follows: 1 ♣: Balanced (12-18 hcp), no five card major; 1 ♦: 4+ ♦, unbalanced (10-21 hcp) 1 ♥: 5+ ♥ (10-21 hcp) 1 ♠: 5+ ♠ (10-21 ...
a balanced or unbalanced hands in the range of 19-21 high card points (HCP) and six controls, or; an unbalanced hand just short of a 2 ♣ opening. The most common responses to the dynamic one notrump opening are: 2 ♣ – negative (0-5 HCP) 2 ♦ – 6+ HCP, game force. Higher-level responses indicate control count.
In the game of contract bridge, it denotes a hand of thirteen cards which contains no singleton or void and at most one doubleton. Three hand patterns are classified as truly balanced: 4-3-3-3, 4-4-3-2 and 5-3-3-2. The hand patterns 5-4-2-2 (an example of a two-suiter) and 6-3-2-2 (a single-suiter) are generally referred to as semi-balanced.
Playing four-card majors some partnerships would bid a major at the four level with five or more card support and an unbalanced hand on the assumption that if the overcaller is 5-5 and responder is unbalanced, opener is unlikely to have a balanced hand and therefore is most likely to have opened a five-card suit
The unusual notrump applies the principle that when the natural meaning of a bid is not generally very useful, it is profitable to agree that it means something somewhat opposite. That is, while natural notrump bids show a strong hand with balanced distribution, the unusual notrump shows a weak hand with very unbalanced distribution.