Friday, February 19, 2016

Responding to 1 Diamond with 6-9 Points

With 13 HCP you should open the bidding. If you have 5 cards in a major suit you want to open 1 of that major. If you do not have a 5 card major but do have 13 HCP you still need to open the bidding. Since you don't have a 5 card major open the bidding 1 of your longest minor. This might only have 3 cards in it.

Therefore to open the bidding 1 you need 13 HCP and 3. That's it.

When partner opens 1 we no longer need 13 points to make a bid. Since partner opened the bidding they have the opening hand. We just need 6 HCP to respond. With 6 HCP we need to respond. To bid a new suit we just need 4 cards in that suit. To support partner's suit we should have 5 cards in the suit. (Partner only need 3 cards in the suit to open remember. So to get an 8 card fit we should have 5.)

If partner opens 1 and you have a fit but you also have a 4 card major, bit the major suit. You want to try to find a fit there. If you do not have a fit in the major you can always bid later on.

The only bids that limit your hand are 1NT and 2. Both these bids limit your hand to 6 to 10 points and partner can pass both those bids.

If you respond with a new suit at the 1 level you might only have 6 points, but you could have 13 points -- or even 20 points. Partner MUST bid again with any of these bids. But we can let partner worry about that.

If you respond with a new suit at the 2 level you must have at least 10 HCP. Therefore sometimes you might have a hand with ♣ that you can't tell partner about. You might get stuck bidding 1NT with an unbalanced hand or you might have to bid a shorter major suit rather than a longer ♣ suit. Such is life.

Therefore if your partner opens the bidding 1 here is a table that that states your only possible responses if you have 6 to 9 points:
Bid Points Number in suit
1 6 or more points and at least 4 in the suit
1♠ 6 or more points and at least 4 in the suit
1NT 6 to 10 points and no 4 card major suit or 5 card suit
2 6 to 10 points and at least 5 cards in the suit with no 4 card major suit


With two 5 card suits bid the higher ranking one first. With two 4 card majors bid them up the line so first.

With that in mind what do you respond when your partner opens 1?

Hand 1

♠K9542
A2
T63
♣JT2



Hand 2

♠JT
Q5
654
♣KT8652



Hand 3

♠QT8
JT86
3
♣KT654



Hand 4

♠93
AT
T6542
♣Q984



Hand 5

♠43
42
AQ432
♣Q743



Hand 6

♠J83
K95
JT3
♣J965



Hand 7

♠T54
AJ754
T3
♣A32



Hand 8

♠52
K76
QJ732
♣943



Hand 9

♠K642
52
A75
♣QT42



Hand 10

♠K4
K72
T982
♣QJT6



Hand 11

♠4
KJ9832
J7
♣Q932



Hand 12

♠952
K7
T6
♣QJT532



Hand 13

♠K98
97
AQ985
♣765



Hand 14

♠KJ2
T9432
T5
♣Q52



Hand 15

♠KT8
JT2
Q43
♣J542



Hand 16

♠Q742
86
Q853
♣Q63



Hand 17

♠Q92
75
94
♣AJT765



Hand 18

♠QJT4
Q5
J763
♣QJT



Hand 19

♠T76
954
AKT42
♣T9



Hand 20

♠T9532
KQ4
74
♣K94



Hand 21

♠QT5
AQT8
T953
♣76



Hand 22

♠Q865
K7
AT7
♣9642



Hand 23

♠Q743
AQ7
9864
♣87



Hand 24

♠6432
K754
JT
♣AJ3



Hand 25

♠T5
QT754
A32
♣QJT



Hand 26

♠Q63
Q94
K65
♣J732



Hand 27

♠QT2
K864
63
♣QJT2



Hand 28

♠J82
83
AQT965
♣T4



Hand 29

♠K95
72
K97652
♣52



Hand 30

♠J9
J9
865
♣AJ9642



Hand 31

♠J93
KQT7
K652
♣83



Hand 32

♠K754
3
543
♣KT542



Hand 33

♠K7432
87
KJT
♣Q75



Hand 34

♠QT98
J75
63
♣A653



Hand 35

♠KT5
A7
965432
♣83



Hand 36

♠732
J53
876
♣AJ82



Hand 37

♠K95
Q3
Q9432
♣J73



Hand 38

♠97
JT642
AQ865
♣9



Hand 39

♠J842
QT974
K6
♣85



Hand 40

♠KJ4
KQ63
8652
♣93



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