Overview of Colorado 2 Club Opening

Written by Keith Schwols in ModernSPC on Tue 15 July 2025. Tags: ModernSPC, Colorado2Club,

Opening 2♣ shows a balanced hand with 18-19 HCP.

Why do we adopt this bid?

We have a couple of reasons

1) Did you ever open this strong of a hand with 1 of a minor, intended to jump rebid at 2NT, and your partner passed you? Annoying right? The …

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Overview of Opening 1 Club and Transfer Responses

Written by Keith Schwols in ModernMinors on Tue 15 July 2025. Tags: ModernMinors, TacoClub,

We have restrictions when opening 1NT, 1 of a Major and 1♦ promises an unbalanced hand. That means the remaining opening hands will be opened 1♣.

Those cases would be:

• 12-14 HCP, balanced
• 12-21 HCP, unbalanced, with a biddable club suit
• 15-21 HCP, semi-balanced, with a twice biddable club suit …

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Countering interference to our Colorado 2♣ opening

Written by Keith Schwols in ModernSPC on Tue 03 June 2025. Tags: Competitive, ModernSPC, Colorado2Club,

Opponents have interfered over our 2♣ opening bid, how should we proceed?

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The 2 heart two-way No-Trump invitation

Written by Keith Schwols in ModernMinors on Tue 03 June 2025. Tags: ModernMinors, UnbalancedDiamond,

A useful little gadget to make better invitations in no-trump after the opening unbalanced 1♦

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The 2NT response to the unbalanced 1♦ opening bid

Written by Keith Schwols in ModernMinors on Tue 03 June 2025. Tags: ModernMinors, UnbalancedDiamond,

We use the Two Heart Two Way NT invite to invite to No-Trump, but what if you have 13-15 HCP and are interested in No-Trump?

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