Continuing our journey navigating major suit raises, this time the opener begins bidding 1 Heart or 1 Spade promising at least a 5 card suit.  On a good day Responder will support the suit and perhaps even make an invitation 3 level raise with 10-12 distributional suit.  On other days, Responder will not have 3+card support and rummage up another bid.  Still, not all is lost and Opener may rebid the major suit with a 6 card suit.   But that’s just the start – tune in to our video for 43 minutes of enlightening and entertaining instruction at BridgeHands!

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In this lesson we will learn to appreciate the value of dummy side suit shortage points, useful for declarer to make extra tricks by ruffing losers in the dummy.  And when those pesky opponents immediately pull trump and deplete the dummy’s trump, we’ll go to the proverbial “Plan B,” giving it the good old college try and take our luck at promoting the dummy’s side suit.

Even if you understand the basics, be sure to check out our topics on how counting can influence which way to take a finesse, suit quality, losing trick count, cover cards and more.
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