I used to play a few quick hands of bridge every day at lunch at my office with a few friends, and I wasn't the best player in the group. I was also taught by "mom". One time I laid my hand down for dummy, one of the better players took a look, and, regarding my bidding, said "you lied". It was all in good fun, and they didn't kick me out, but playing with and against better players than myself really improved my game.
THIS is how bridge videos need to be filmed. Classroom environment, physical whiteboard only. I might come back to this if I ever find a similar series for cardplay, which I'd rather learn first before trying to get a hold of bidding. Not a fan of the humor being used, but generally most teachers on the Tube are script readers with no concept of what actual teaching implies, so I'll tolerate the bad humor on this if I have to.
If you are in a position to open a minor, and you have the same number of clubs as you have diamonds, it makes sense that you should open with a diamond for the same reason you open with a spade when you have 5 cards in each major; opening with the higher ranking suit gives the opponents less bidding room. So why, in the case of 3 clubs and 3 diamonds (and no 5 card major) would you open the lower ranking suit?
As you know there are very few bids available to a player to describe a wide range of hands. the cost of opening a major with 5 cards (and not 4) is that you are left with the inconvenient (43)33 hand you described. Different partnerships have different agreements for these hands. For example some partnerships will open the 3 card minor that they like more. Partnerships that do not have an agreement that overrides the ‘standard’ should bid 1c. By doing that, except for the hand where you have 4432, bidding 1d will always promise 4 diamonds.
Great lesson.
I used to play a few quick hands of bridge every day at lunch at my office with a few friends, and I wasn't the best player in the group. I was also taught by "mom". One time I laid my hand down for dummy, one of the better players took a look, and, regarding my bidding, said "you lied". It was all in good fun, and they didn't kick me out, but playing with and against better players than myself really improved my game.
THIS is how bridge videos need to be filmed. Classroom environment, physical whiteboard only. I might come back to this if I ever find a similar series for cardplay, which I'd rather learn first before trying to get a hold of bidding.
Not a fan of the humor being used, but generally most teachers on the Tube are script readers with no concept of what actual teaching implies, so I'll tolerate the bad humor on this if I have to.
If you are in a position to open a minor, and you have the same number of clubs as you have diamonds, it makes sense that you should open with a diamond for the same reason you open with a spade when you have 5 cards in each major; opening with the higher ranking suit gives the opponents less bidding room. So why, in the case of 3 clubs and 3 diamonds (and no 5 card major) would you open the lower ranking suit?
As you know there are very few bids available to a player to describe a wide range of hands. the cost of opening a major with 5 cards (and not 4) is that you are left with the inconvenient (43)33 hand you described. Different partnerships have different agreements for these hands. For example some partnerships will open the 3 card minor that they like more. Partnerships that do not have an agreement that overrides the ‘standard’ should bid 1c. By doing that, except for the hand where you have 4432, bidding 1d will always promise 4 diamonds.
Where can I learn bridge?
Ghastly laughter