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The immediate cue-bid


A significant decision concerns the immediate cue-bid.


The all-purpose powerhouse bid of former times is long gone.  May it rest in peace.


Over one of a suit you might employ the bid as part of some two-suited take-out system.  In the present context, though, this hand-type will in due course be catered for with the Leaping Michael’s convention and the unusual 4NT.


Note also that there will never be any point in bidding the opponents’ suit to show a holding in that suit - certainly you have no intention of playing in a trump contract with a six-card holding out against you - and if your bid is supposed to show a good stop in the suit then just make your bid in no trumps.


Better is to use the cue-bid in some other way.


Recommended is that you should use the bid differently according to whether:-


your opponents opened in a major


or


your opponents opened in a minor.

Advancer’s next bid

This page last revised 19th Sept 2017

Post-beginner and above

Context - overcaller - opponents opened with a single-suited weak two - a basic selection.