Responder's Bidding Tools - Reverse Flannery

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Responder's Bidding Tools - Reverse Flannery

Another approach for using 2♥ and 2♠ responses to 1-minor suit opening bids is to use these bids to show a variety of problematic hands that have length in both Major suits.  This method, called Reverse Flannery, is particularly effective after a 1♦ opening bid.  It originally comes from Precision where 1♦ is the only “natural” 1-minor opening bid.  Let’s look at how this works and see what types of hands these agreements can help us bid better.

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This set accompanies TWiB 590.