jillybean, on 2014-August-31, 11:58, said:
I forgot double can show this type of hand and it seems like we need to look at the wisdom of playing NFB and JS.
Thanks!
I experimented with NFB many years ago and came to the realization that they are great for partscore competition but disastrous for accurate slam bidding and questionable for accurate game bidding. Thus if, like me, your focus is on imp competition, they seem like the 'wrong' system.
However, if your view differs, or if you focus mostly on mps, then you need, as you note, to think about how different parts of your methods mesh.
There is nothing wrong with lots of system, but it is essential to understand that every gadget carries a cost: you lose the previous meaning of the call, so you need to find another way of describing that now lost hand, and here using NFB perhaps suggests that you need 3
♣ as natural, strong. On this hand, the odds that LHO can or will pre-empt in hearts is almost non-existent, but what if he jumped in spades? And of course on other hands, the need to double on a power one suiter can lead to really bad auctions later.
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