This Week in Bridge Practice Hands
Fundamental Notrump Bids - Upgrade to Jacoby 2NT
The modern expert 2NT response to a 1-Major opening shows a limit raise or better (LR+), instead of game forcing values. This has many different inventors, advocates, and variants. In Europe, it is known as Limit Sternberg while in America, Larry Cohen popularized a similar approach. The idea of using 1M – 2NT as LR+ accomplishes a couple of goals. First, this opens up 1M – 3M to always be a weak call (a valuable tool for making life difficult on the opponents). Second, 1M – 2NT as LR+ approach gives away less information about the Opener’s hand (and soon to be declarer’s hand). Let’s see how this works.
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This set accompanies TWiB 630.