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Anyone still using forcing 1H-3H nowadays? Is this old-fashioned?

Poll: Anyone still using forcing 1H-3H nowadays? (22 member(s) have cast votes)

How do you play 1H-3H?

  1. Game forcing (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  2. Invitational (9 votes [40.91%])

    Percentage of vote: 40.91%

  3. Preemptive (13 votes [59.09%])

    Percentage of vote: 59.09%

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#21 User is offline   DavidKok 

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Posted 2021-September-14, 14:06

That's quite the insult, that my system is appropriate for low level play but not against good opponents. I think both methods have merit, and I'd love to see your analysis of several hundred hands.
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Posted 2021-October-11, 09:44

I don't know of anyone who plays 1M-3M as a GF, and that includes a few folks in the 90+ age category.
Without any discussion, playing with a pickup partner, I would assume it's invitational.
But certainly treating it as preemptive or constructive has gained in popularity considerably.

Recently, I've switched to 1M-2NT = an invite or better w/ 4-card support. Our response structure works better than traditional Jacoby 2NT, even with the wider amount of responder hands to handle. So, I haven't looked back.
We have other uses for 1M-3m, so we don't use Bergen. For us, 1M-3M is either preemptive or constructive based on vulnerability.
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Posted 2021-October-11, 22:06

View Postperko90, on 2021-October-11, 09:44, said:

I don't know of anyone who plays 1M-3M as a GF, and that includes a few folks in the 90+ age category.
Without any discussion, playing with a pickup partner, I would assume it's invitational.
But certainly treating it as preemptive or constructive has gained in popularity considerably.

Recently, I've switched to 1M-2NT = an invite or better w/ 4-card support. Our response structure works better than traditional Jacoby 2NT, even with the wider amount of responder hands to handle. So, I haven't looked back.
We have other uses for 1M-3m, so we don't use Bergen. For us, 1M-3M is either preemptive or constructive based on vulnerability.


The reason to use 3M as forcing is to recapture 2N as natural.
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Posted 2021-October-12, 06:52

View PostWinstonm, on 2021-October-11, 22:06, said:

The reason to use 3M as forcing is to recapture 2N as natural.

All of the expert pairs I know of that play 1M - 2NT as natural play 1M - 3m and/or 1 - 2 as a forcing raise.
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Posted 2021-October-12, 09:56

View PostGilithin, on 2021-October-12, 06:52, said:

All of the expert pairs I know of that play 1M - 2NT as natural play 1M - 3m and/or 1 - 2 as a forcing raise.


Yes, there are other ways to get there. 3M is one of them. It solves a difficult problem of a hand with a fit good enough to force to game but uninterested in slam ventures, especially a hand without a decent 5-card side suit. Take QJx, QJx, xx, KQJx or QJx, KQ, QJx, Jxxxx and partner opens 1H or 1S.

Basically, if you want to increase the accuracy of the 2/1 bid, then there are two options with these hand types: bid 1NT 100% forcing then bid game over the response, or bid 3S forcing (a picture bid that describes a bad game raise).

The advantage is that when you do make a 2/1 and then support, you have the knowledge that there is a genuine 5-card of longer side suit and a decent hand.
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Posted 2021-October-12, 12:41

View PostWinstonm, on 2021-October-12, 09:56, said:

Yes, there are other ways to get there. 3M is one of them. It solves a difficult problem of a hand with a fit good enough to force to game but uninterested in slam ventures, especially a hand without a decent 5-card side suit. Take QJx, QJx, xx, KQJx or QJx, KQ, QJx, Jxxxx and partner opens 1H or 1S.

Basically, if you want to increase the accuracy of the 2/1 bid, then there are two options with these hand types: bid 1NT 100% forcing then bid game over the response, or bid 3S forcing (a picture bid that describes a bad game raise).

The advantage is that when you do make a 2/1 and then support, you have the knowledge that there is a genuine 5-card of longer side suit and a decent hand.

Maybe I open lighter than you but I am not convinced a balanced 12 count with 6 quacks is worth a game force. Put it this way, if you were playing Bergen and it went 1M - 3m (limit) -- (pause)3M - 4M, which is the approved auction for the hand type you describe, I would not be sympathetic as TD when you told me you were always going to game regardless of the BIT.

I will not argue you about the benefits of making the 2/1 auctions purer though. Fred Gitelman was a big supporter of that concept when he posted here and I am sure he knows a lot more about 2/1 GF systems than I do.
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Posted 2022-August-09, 08:54

I use 1M-3M as a strong hand 14-18 points but only for the three balanced (=4-3-3-3, 4-4-3-2, 5-3-3-2) and also for the 5-4 -2-2 and 6-3-2-2 in response to opener. Instead for the other distributions that are unbalanced I prefer 2NT Jacoby with the same distributional points. This, however, if there is no interference, otherwise it becomes preventive (as is used now). When I was playing I clearly warned my partner of the moment of this change and I found that they were happy to play "old fashioned" reaching good scores. I think that this restricted choice only for balanced ones can be considered as a (third) middle ground in addition to better defining the type of strong hand answering to opener (which requires cue bids).


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Posted 2022-August-10, 10:50

View Postjohnu, on 2021-August-20, 18:05, said:

I don't have a good handle on the percentage playing 1M-3M as preemptive, but I have to disagree with plain suit jumps (aka Bergen raises) being played by most good pairs (in the US). Maybe in the UK?


Extremely common in the UK.
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Posted 2022-August-10, 10:52

View Posthrothgar, on 2021-August-21, 16:36, said:

Its ever so cute that people still believe that there's any significant number of people who play rubber bridge at home.

My grandmother played rubber bridge at home.
She's been dead for 25 years.


I and some of my friends play rubber bridge at home. Sometimes Chicago.

Yes, I did learn at the kitchen table with my grandparents when I was a child.

And we played 1M-3M as GF. But that was over four decades ago.
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Posted 2022-August-12, 18:04

Perhaps it should rethink the 1M-3M bidding as a preventive, using it only when is interfered with (as indicated by me in # 27) because how the (forgotten) 1M-2M one is utilized which instead I can also use by repeating it at level 3 (let's not forget that 1 is also termed to as a little barrage)?


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