some bidding techniques benjaminised (or benji) acol (part ii)
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Some Bidding Techniques
Benjaminised (or Benji) Acol(Part II)
Benji Acol Becoming very popular Pre-emptive at the 2 level instead of
3 Note:
Must be agreed beforehand with partner Need a new way of bidding strong Twos No change to other parts of your system
1 Level and 3 Level openings remain as they were
Benji Acol
Invented by Albert Benjamin In a nutshell:
2 is an ‘Acol Two’ in any suit 2 is 23+ points or Game Force (Acol 2) 2 is 6-10 points and 6 Hearts 2 is 6-10 points and 6 Spades
We will discuss the weak 2 openings in this session 2 2
We dealt with the strong openings last time 2 2 And balanced hand bidding
Weak Twos
Now that your 2 & 2 openings are weak
We need to consider two aspects: HCP Strength Suit Strength
High Card Point Strength
At most 10 With 11 and a six card suit you have a
opening 1 level bid At least 6
Stretch down to 5 if all points in the long suit
With a T & 9
Strength of Suit
It is important to have some strength Don’t open a weak 2 if your suit is
horrible This would be a mis-description More detail:->
Strength of Suit
You should have:
TWO of the top FOUR honours or
THREE of the top SIX cards:->
Strength of Suit
Excellent
A-K-9-8-7-6K-Q-J-7-6-5A-J-T-5-4-3Q-J-T-5-4-3
Only Just
K-J-7-6-5-4A-T-9-4-3-2Q-J-8-7-6-5J-T-9-7-6-5
Bad
Q-7-6-5-4-3J-T-7-4-3-2A-T-7-6-5-4K-T-8-7-6-5
Responding to Weak Twos
The most common response is PASS With 16+ HCP or <7 LTC there are 3
types of response Change of suit 2NT Simple raise
Change of Suit Response
VERY unusual Very strong hand that doesn’t want
to play in the bid suit Forcing for one round 5+ cards
Very similar to change of suit after an opening 3
Simple Raise Response
Weak & pre-emptive NOT invitational Designed to make life difficult for the
opponents
2NT Response
The main strong option A conventional response (Ogust) Asks for more description of the
opening hand Please be more precise about
HCP strength Strength of your suit
Opener’s re-bids
After Pass - Pass After simple raise – Pass – more on
this later After change of suit –
Treat this the same as a change of suit after a 3 or 4 level pre-empt
After 2NT :--
Opener’s re-bids after 2NT
OR – 3NT shows exactly A-K-Q-x-x-x in the major bid
Suit Quality HCP BidWeak Weak 3
Strong Weak 3
Weak Strong 3
Strong Strong 3
Opener’s re-bids after 2NTSuit Quality
HCP Bid
Weak Weak 3Strong Weak 3Weak Strong 3Strong Strong 3
I like to think of the & bid as easy to rememberFor & – bid higher with more HCP
Responder re-bids after 2NT is answered
With a weak 3 opening from partner continuations are often a guess
With a weak 2 you now know a lot more
And can have an educated auction BUT In this context – what is a strong
suit?
When is a suit strong? The suit is STRONG IF and ONLY IF it has TWO of the top THREE honours
K-Q-6-5-4-3 counts as strong A-J-T-9-8-7 counts as weak (With the 3 top honours between you
you’ll take 6 tricks)
When are the HCP strong? 6 – 7 is weak 9 – 10 is strong 8 is a judgement
Example
You open 2 and partner responds 2NT – now what?
KQT765
Q75
J6
76
JT9543
AK7
865
4
3 3
Example
KQJT97
876
76
64
A2
A32
A9832
AT3
32 2NT
3NT
Example
KT9873
J76
K6
64
J2
AK2
AQJ32
Q83
2 2NT
3 3
Example
KQT983
J76
K6
64
J2
AK2
AQJ32
Q83
2 2NT
3 4
Example
AK7642
543
92
63
853
2
KQ6543
J82
2 3
T
QJ976
JT87
AT7
QJ9
AKT8
A
KQ954Pass
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