Balanced & Semi-Balanced Hands

Balanced Hand are hands with no voids or singletons and at most one doubleton. Balanced hands without any 5-card majors are relatively easy to describe. Examples Axx Kx QJx KQxx KJx Ax AJx KQxxx KQxx xxx Axx AQJ Bidding Balanced Hands 1m-1M--1N 12-14 HCP 1N 15-17 HCP 1m-1M--2N 18-19 HCP 2N 20-21 HCP  (some play this as 20-22 HCP) 2-2--2N 22-24 HCP 2-2--3N 24-26 HCP Semi-Balanced Hands are hands with two doubletons. These hands often cause a difficult rebid problem. Two common distributions that cause this problem are 2=4-5-2 and 6-3-2-2. It is often good to avoid this rebid problem by opening the hand with notrump. Examples Kx    Kx K10xx 10xx AKJxx  Kx Qx AKJxxx Open both these hands 1N!