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WBF Convention Booklet

Details of Multi Twos and the Full Booklet

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WBF Systems Policy

According to the WBF Systems Policy, the following is not a "Brown Sticker Convention":

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Multi Twos according to the WBF Conventions Booklet

Multi 2D

An opening 2D shows one of three types

  1. Weak two in a major suit
  2. A strong balanced hand of a defined range
  3. Strong three-suited hand

Responses to 2D. The first response assumes that Opener has a weak two in a major.

Opener's rebids.

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The Full WBF Conventions Booklet

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Comments on Multi Twos

by Grattan Endicott, WBFLC Secretary

My research has led me to the following conclusions with regard to Multi:

  1. We normally think of it as Multi 2D but the Systems Policy allows that alternatively it may be Multi 2 Clubs.

  2. A Multi is not Brown Sticker if it shows a hand which may be weak in either major and has no other weak possibilities; it may have 'several' strong meanings. No restriction is stated as to these.

  3. There are, however, specified requirements as to disclosure. The easiest way to cover this question is to set out for you the relevant text. [WARNING - read this in conjunction with the WBF Systems Policy since if any conflict exists between them the Systems Policy prevails.] I quote:

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Note on Cue-bid Overcalls and Brown Stickers

by Grattan Endicott, WBFLC Secretary

Editor's note:

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I believe this is a false reading of the Systems Policy. The Systems Policy refers to 'overcalls' and , in my view (but I think also in the view of John Wignall since he has made no comment about an earlier exchange I had on the point, not on blml), these are distinguished from 'Cue Bids in Opponent's Suit'. Unless John comes to the surface quickly and says something else I think we may act upon the understanding that an 'overcall' is not in the denomination specified by opponent. I base my view on the Bridge Player's Dictionary; if you look at 'Overcall' you will find that it refers to 'other measures available' and quotes 'Cue Bid in Opponents Suit' as one of them.

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