Bidding Modern American Bridge

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Adopting Colorado 2clubs updates how you can play Extensile 2 clubs over 1 of a major

Written by Keith Schwols in ModernSPC on Sun 31 August 2025. Tags: SPC, Colorado2Club, Extensile2Club, ModernAmericanMajors,

When your partnership adopts the Colorado2Club conventions you have a great bid to show those awkward 18-19 HCP hands.

In the Extensile 2clubs convention, we have a bid sequences after 1 of a major - 2♣ to show a balanced 18-19 HCP. We no longer need this bid because we would …

Rule of 17 responding to weak twos

Written by Keith Schwols in ModernSPC on Thu 01 May 2025. Tags: SPC, Competitive,

The "Rule of 17" is a bidding guideline used when your partner opens with a weak two bid.

Opening Strong Hands and Competitive Bidding Conventions

Written by Keith Schwols in ModernSPC on Mon 01 January 2024. Tags: SPC, TRASH, TRAP, TransferAdvances,

We have covered opening 1 of a major bids (5+ card suit) with our new bidding conventions nonForcingNT, Extensile2♣, GameForce2♦ and Two Face 2♥, Compressed Bergen and others.

For minor suit opening bids we have covered the requirements for Taco Club and Unbalanced Diamond.

This section covers bidding Strong, Preemptive …