A Realization

I'll leave it to McKenzie to post any interesting hands from yesterday's two sessions of sectional bridge, but I did want to mention one thing. We were again playing our new big club system, which was not without hiccups, but overall I like it very much. After the first session, many other players were complaining that the hands were "so tricky," with "lots of problems."

I didn't feel that way at all. I credit the system -- maybe McKenzie had some close calls, but on almost every single board, I knew what my bid would be and we found the right spot. I was never displeased with our 2/1 card, but I love how descriptive we can be with our Precision bidding, without giving away any information at all from the big hand.

My favorite auction yesterday was this:

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1C - 1D - 1H - 1S - 1N - 3N

Every call until 3N was alerted, and when the defender was getting ready to choose her lead, she kept asking questions about the alerts. "So that says nothing about clubs? Nothing about diamonds?" Finally, I just told her "You don't know anything about either of our hands, except that he's 20-21 balanced and I'm <7." She seemed mad, like with all that bidding, surely there's some information to be had.

We had several very nice auctions to spots that we probably could have found with our old 2/1 system, too, but with the advantage that declarer rarely gave away any information on his hand. I'm looking forward to developing this system further. I'm officially a convert.