It's a shame there's not a way to fit the old Blue Club style 1NT opener into Precision, where 1NT was either the genuine 1NT
or the 'other' range with a 5 card
suit (in the case of Blue Club, that was always 12-14, as the genuine NT was 15-17 bal).
The problem is that it would totally bugger the system of transfers (and the 2-way 2
) so there's no possible case to be made for it.
The occasional Burn's Law violation , sometimes
spectacular violations against opponents who know what they're doing, are the price to be paid for playing Precision or similar systems.
I still claim at least a joint share of the ultimate, unbeatable record for a Burn's Law violation for playing 2
, undoubled (because opps knew I would likely escape) and at adverse, with not one diamond in
either hand, and getting a good score for ending up with zero tricks in 2
-8 (-800) when opponents had 6
cold their way for +920. The culprit was an Amsbury sequence
(1
)-2
-all pass
1
Precision (including, as it turned out, a six card
suit)
2
showed a weak jump in
OR a 3-suiter short
OR a major 2-suiter.
My LHO had the other seven
, and passed, hoping for a takeout double from her partner.
My partner looked at her
void and decided I had to have the WJO in
, so she passed
Opener looked at his 6-card
suit, assumed that his partner had a weak hand rather than a trap pass, and at the vulnerability decided to play for 100s, as his double would have been for takeout and would also have let me escape if I didn't hold the WJO in
.