Lebensohl Pattaya Bridge Club, Thailand（泰国Lebensohl芭堤雅桥牌俱乐部）.pdfVIP

Lebensohl The Lebensohl convention uses 2NT as an artificial bid. Responder normally replies with a puppet bid of 3and the Lebensohl bidder then describes his hand further. Originally the convention was just used in the situation where partner’s 1NT opening has been overcalled; there are now two or more other situations where it’s use is also popular: - such as when partner has doubled a weak two bid for take-out and when partner has reversed. I shall cover the original convention first and then show that the other situations are very similar. We assume that partner has opened a strong (15- 17) NT throughout. It is exactly the same if you play a weak NT (just 3 points different). North East South With no interference, you would transfer with both of these hands. After opener completes the transfer, we bid 3NT with 1NT 2  ? Hand A but pass the transfer response with hand B. No problem. But what if there was a 2 overcall? With Hand A Hand A Hand B we wish to bid 3, forcing, to offer partner the choice of 3NT or 4 . With Hand B we simply want to play in 3. J3 73 How can we manage both? By means of the Lebensohl KQ964 KJ9643 convention. AJ3 73 With hand A we bid 3, game forcing and showing a 5 card 985 985 suit. With Hand B we first bid 2NT (Lebensohl). Partner is forced to bid 3in reply and then we bid 3to play. North East South When the overcall is in a lower ranking suit than responder’s, 1NT 2  ? there is another bid available. Hand C Hand D Hand E