some bidding techniques benjaminised (or benji) acol (part ii)
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Some Bidding Techniques
Benjaminised (or Benji) Acol(Part II)
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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
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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
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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
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Weak Twos
Now that your 2 & 2 openings are weak
We need to consider two aspects: HCP Strength Suit Strength
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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
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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:->
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Strength of Suit
You should have:
TWO of the top FOUR honours or
THREE of the top SIX cards:->
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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
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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
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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
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Simple Raise Response
Weak & pre-emptive NOT invitational Designed to make life difficult for the
opponents
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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
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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 :--
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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
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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
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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?
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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)
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When are the HCP strong? 6 – 7 is weak 9 – 10 is strong 8 is a judgement
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Example
You open 2 and partner responds 2NT – now what?
KQT765
Q75
J6
76
JT9543
AK7
865
4
3 3
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Example
KQJT97
876
76
64
A2
A32
A9832
AT3
32 2NT
3NT
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Example
KT9873
J76
K6
64
J2
AK2
AQJ32
Q83
2 2NT
3 3
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Example
KQT983
J76
K6
64
J2
AK2
AQJ32
Q83
2 2NT
3 4
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Example
AK7642
543
92
63
853
2
KQ6543
J82
2 3
T
QJ976
JT87
AT7
QJ9
AKT8
A
KQ954Pass