19:37:58 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: Tonight's LINDA LESSON is here! 🙂 You can download to your computer from this chat. 19:38:09 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: Bookmark this link to this FREE LESSON: https://acbl-org.zoom.us/j/2364960804?pwd=a3QrbW9EMmhLdWE5ZkM5QXArVzQvUT09 It will remain the same link each week. 19:38:17 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: You can check out tonight's results on Live for Clubs - https://my.acbl.org/club-results/909994 19:38:25 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: This is the archive where you can find all the videos and all the Community Game lessons: https://www.acbl.org/community-game-zoom-lessons/ 19:41:59 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: Tonight's LINDA LESSON is here! 🙂 You can download to your computer from this chat. 19:42:56 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: Unusual 2NT is an overcall that shows the two lowest UNBID suits. At least 5/5 - or 6/5 - or 6/6. Can be weak or strong! 19:44:09 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: When you cuebid the opponent's minor suit, it shows BOTH MAJORS, the same sort of length and point count as the Unusual 2NT. 19:45:20 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: CUEBID and Unusual 2NT - do with these hands: WEAK - 6-11 or STRONG - 16+ If you have "just an opening hand," 12-15, you overcall the higher-ranked suit, and the plan to rebid the lower. 19:46:58 From Kyle Moran To Everyone: So no cue bid if you have medium hand with 5/5 in majors bid the spades? 19:50:33 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: At UNFAVORABLE VULNERABILITY, you need to be more disciplined throughout bridge. When you're "red" (VUL) and they're WHITE (Non-VUL), your suits and points should be better. If you are at favorable vulnerability, where they are red and you are white, you can shade the suit quality and the points a little ;) This doesn't just apply to this cuebid or to Unusual 2NT, it applies when you are preempting or overcalling or …. etc etc etc 😉 19:52:59 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: The "master hand" is usually the one that has more pieces in trumps. 19:53:58 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: In a suit contract, declarer needs first to count LOSERS, and compare how many losers you have to how many you can afford to lose. If you have more than you can afford, the PLAN comes in to decide how to eliminate them! 19:55:24 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: Playing a HIGH CARD on that trick asks for the higher of the other two side suits. It's a suit preference signal. 19:55:43 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: Defenders need to talk to one another through their CARDING. 20:00:12 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: This is the lesson PDF, if you wish to download it. You played these hands tonight! :) 20:03:34 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: Pay attention to the vulnerability -- all the time! 20:04:22 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: When you double a distributional hand for penalty... you'd better have TRUMP TRICKS :) 20:05:40 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: Play "attitude" on partner's tricks. 20:07:30 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: CROSS-RUFF the rest of the hand :) 20:08:21 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: Points are irrelevant when we have freak distribution. Shape, glorious shape!! 20:11:45 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: Suit Preference ruffing … the spot of the card that you send partner to ruff tells partner what suit to return after they trump the card. Defenders talking through their cards! 20:13:27 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: If you have 10 pieces in two suits, this leaves only 3 possible minor suit losers! 20:15:53 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: ONLY COUNT SHORTNESS when you've found a SUIT FIT with partner! 20:21:29 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: When to Cover an honor with honor and when to split honors will be covered 11/14 and 11/16 🙂 Put it on your calendar! 20:25:57 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: When South doubles the cuebid, it shows North the willingness to double one or both of the two suits. And we have the majority of the points, too, partner -- I have at least 10 points. 20:29:16 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: REMEMBER that these two-suited bids are made EITHER WEAK or STRONG. You don't know partner has until their rebid! 20:30:40 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: This is the archive where you can find all the videos and all the Community Game lessons: https://www.acbl.org/community-game-zoom-lessons/ 20:30:51 From Lynn Chapin To Everyone: You can check out the results on Live for Clubs - https://my.acbl.org/club-results/909994