Standard treatment of responses with a 5-5 major-suited hand varies. The most common approach is to use 3♥ and 3♠ bids to show a 5-5 hand with invitational and game-forcing values.
This assumes that you do not have a conventional meaning for 3♥ and 3♠ responses. In …
With 5-5 and 0-7 HCP, we'd like to act, find an 8-card minor fit, and play at the 3-level instead of passing 1NT. This is especially true when your minimal hand lacks probable entries to set up either minor …
Transfer and Penalty bidding after opponents open a weak NT.
We value keeping the overcaller as captain of the auction in competive auctions. The transfer request allows that option.
This system is similar to the one we use when competing against strong NT openings. The difference is that we want …
We discussed that the weakness in 2/1 bidding is the forcing NT. We abandoned the Forcing NT in favor of retaining the natural 6-9, no support meaning. However, a large percentage of your opponents will still be playing forcing NT (or semi-forcing).
Disturb Opponent's Forcing NT (DONT) is a …
A transfer advances is a competive bridge convention. It is also referred to as a Rubens Advance.
When you partner makes a suit overcall and your RHO passes, you are faced with the problem of how to show weak, invitational and game-going hands. A simple raise is insufficient, double raises …