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what to bid ... my reg use of Controles on open 2C hand

#1 User is offline   niboj72 

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  Posted 2019-December-29, 22:15

my pt and i use contrôles after 2C opening Hd .

hère 2D. =0-2 Controls
2Nt. = 3 Controls. (unpass M ; reserved for opiner later if...
3C. = 4Controls
3D = 5Controls
3H = 6 controls. ace= 2 controls
any k = one control

w that 2 boards. my first response will be 3H @. Alert. = 6. controls

MY PY WL KNOW I HV 2 ACES 2 K
HE WL directly bid 7NT
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Posted 2019-December-30, 01:29

Control responses are very old fashioned and have fallen out of favour in the past few decades. These are these traditional responses:


2= 0 or 1
2 = 2
2/2NT = 3, differentiated by 3K or an A and a K
3 = 4 or more. I guess you could keep going up as you do, but

The trouble with controls is that they get in opener’s way. Getting to 7NT in 3 bids is fun, but it’s not really necessary. There is plenty of room between 2 and 7NT.
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Posted 2019-December-31, 22:36

2=0 or 1 control
2=2 controls
2=3 controls
2NT=4 controls
3=5 or more controls.
3/3=essentially a weak 2 bid in the next higher suit, GF.

But as Vampyr says, they've fallen out of favor these days.
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Posted 2019-December-31, 23:45

View Postniboj72, on 2019-December-29, 22:15, said:

2Nt. = 3 Controls. (unpass M ; reserved for opiner later if...
Your sentence isn't proper English but it looks like your reserving 2/2 for future use by opener.
Opener can no more bid 2 after 2NT then after 2.
So you're using up bidding space for no reason if I had read your post correctly.
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Posted 2020-January-01, 07:53

Recently, on BridgeWinners, David Burn suggests that 2 - 3 could show a weak balanced hand.
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