In Modern American bidding we follow the best practices of Standard American and 2/1 bidding.
We open hands with 12-21 HCP and 5 or more cards in a major with 1 of that major.
It is in the responses to opening 1 of a major that Modern American shines …
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In Modern American bidding, we define the minor suit openings to be
more restricted than Standard American or 2/1 bidding systems.
Opening 1♣ shows 1 of 2 types of hands:
- A balanced hand with 12-14 HCP (and no 5 card major). It may as few as 2 clubs in …
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We have covered opening 1 of a major bids (5+ card suit) with our new
bidding conventions nonForcingNT, Extensile2♣, GameForce2♦ and
Two Face 2♥, Compressed Bergen and others.
For minor suit opening bids we have covered the requirements for ToucanClub
and Macaw (Unbalanced) Diamond.
This section covers bidding Strong, Preemptive …
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Rockstar is a transfer based modern 2/1 bidding system.
Unique elements:
- Colorado 2♣, the 1 1/2 NT opener. Balanced hand with 18-19 HCP
- MH 2, the strong bid. Hands with 23+ points or 9+ quick tricks
- Toucan 1♣ - 1♣ is 12-14 balanced hand or opening hand with 5 …
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Welcome to the Rockstar Bridge website. The focus of this site is to document and write about
a new system of bidding in Bridge. Standard American and 2/1 are good systems, but both have
issues. Standard American is a very solid, basic system, but doesn't have good systems to …
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