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Bidding Challenges / Re: Positive responder with 55+
« Last post by lute57 on June 28, 2019, 10:43:54 PM »Hi Dick,
Good to see you playing OCP and discussing tweaks with partner.
IMO, you perfectly bid the sequence according to OCP doctrine. In regards to partner showing first, I think everyone would do the same. With 8+ HCP and 5-card & 6-card , the only time I would show the 5-card Major first is when the Minor is significantly weaker. I believe that is Oliver's doctrine, too.
Anyway, Brian created a nice gadget for showing two-suited Responder hands with 8+ HCP. 1 -2 [alert] showing 8+HCP and promising two-suits. Of course, to incorporate this in your system, you need to modify your 4441 8-11 HCP Responder responses. I believe Brian suggested making 1 -2 showing 4441 8-11 HCP and showing a singleton in one of the Major-suits. Similar to 1 -2NT [generic singleton in the Minors]. You would also have to adjust your subsequent Eta responses to allow the additional first step "oops! you Eta Asked in my singleton suit."
Brian can elaborate better (and correct me as needed). I think Oliver has no problem with OCP partnerships playing in this matter; but I seriously doubt if it will ever become part of OCP standard. Although it is a tweak I use, and I believe Brian continues to endorse it, adding it as standard OCP just adds another level of complexity to a standard system that is already quite complex [and we are talking the Simple System ].
John
Good to see you playing OCP and discussing tweaks with partner.
IMO, you perfectly bid the sequence according to OCP doctrine. In regards to partner showing first, I think everyone would do the same. With 8+ HCP and 5-card & 6-card , the only time I would show the 5-card Major first is when the Minor is significantly weaker. I believe that is Oliver's doctrine, too.
Anyway, Brian created a nice gadget for showing two-suited Responder hands with 8+ HCP. 1 -2 [alert] showing 8+HCP and promising two-suits. Of course, to incorporate this in your system, you need to modify your 4441 8-11 HCP Responder responses. I believe Brian suggested making 1 -2 showing 4441 8-11 HCP and showing a singleton in one of the Major-suits. Similar to 1 -2NT [generic singleton in the Minors]. You would also have to adjust your subsequent Eta responses to allow the additional first step "oops! you Eta Asked in my singleton suit."
Brian can elaborate better (and correct me as needed). I think Oliver has no problem with OCP partnerships playing in this matter; but I seriously doubt if it will ever become part of OCP standard. Although it is a tweak I use, and I believe Brian continues to endorse it, adding it as standard OCP just adds another level of complexity to a standard system that is already quite complex [and we are talking the Simple System ].
John