Bridge - Conventions Bridge - Cue bid

Bridge - Conventions Bridge - Cue bid.

Cue bid (or cue-bid is colloquially also q-bid) in the bridge auction it:

  • reporting your opponent's color, depending on the findings, he may ask for arrest, show them or promise to fit in your partner's color, a special case of such a cue-bid is the Michels cue-bid.
  • a forcing cheat that shows interest in a bonus game (my slam, with a slam) and promises first or second class detention – ace or king (honorable cue bid) the singletona the renons (short cue-bid, A variation of the short cue-bid is Splinter). We call a cue-bid economic, if it is bid below the tip in the agreed color.
Cue bite In class
as the renons (if you know, that we won't play for BA).
Cue bid II klasy
king or singleton (if you know, that we won't play for BA).
Honorary cue-bid
ace or king.
Short cue-bid
renons lub singleton. Attention!!! – if one of the partners bid a clearly short cue-bid, his partner no longer cues-bids the king of that color. Such a cue-bid will definitely talk about an ace.
—>Cue-bid Controlled

a cue-bid that looks like a regular cue-bid lower than the partner's possible cue-bid. It allows you to quickly find out, whether the partner has a stop in a key color for us. It is most often used in a situation, when we have the right strength and hold in all other colors and only this one stop is missing for the bonus game.

—>Auction after X on a Cue-bid:

a)indefinite or honorable

  • counter : indicates a stop in a countered color
  • continuation of cue-bid exchange : points to the lack of concern about the subplayability of the detention indicated by the partner (a lady is enough)
  • not : conveys the concern about the subplayability of the stop
    • counter : stop unplayable (singleton, as, marriage)
    • back to the agreed color : playable stop
    • another cue-bid : a non-playable stop in a counted color and a non-auction stop in the color of an auctioned color

b)short term

  • back to the agreed color : value duplication (as without a counter)
  • not : better than the minimum hand
  • counter : full shutdown
  • cue-bid : positive reception, usually a grouping of values ​​in the color of the auction

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