The Unassuming Cue Bid
Lunchtime Bridge Tutorial
12th April 2010
Venue: Museum of Bath at Work
Please reserve a place by email
The cost is £5 including handouts and tea/coffee
Please bring a sandwich lunch if you wish to play in the afternoon duplicate session when many of the hands will be slamish. Hand records with commentary will be available via the web site.
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Supporting Partner after an Overcall
When your partner makes an overcall and you have the good fortune to have a fit, i.e. three or more cards in their suit, how do you proceed? Say the bidding goes
1♥ 1♠ pass ? What does 3♠ mean?
Does it mean I have a fit and the strength to invite game?
Or does it mean I am preempting with a fit and a weak and shapely hand?
In standard bidding you have only one choice. The unassuming cue bid gives you a choice!
2♥ says I have a fit and points
3♠ says This is a pre-empt
This tutorial will introduce you to using the opponents suit as a Cue Bid, to show strength, thereby releasing your normal fit showing bids. This often lets you disrupt the opponents bidding despite having a very weak hand.
The additional advantage of learning this bid is that it opens the door to a whole family of bids that expands your opportunities for preempting. And as all bridge players know, pre-empt's are good fun, as well as winning bridge.
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January 25, 2010
