Five-card majors

Five-card majors is a contract bridge bidding treatment common to many modern bidding systems. Its basic tenet is that an opening bid of one-of-a-major in first and second position guarantees at least five cards in that major. This method has become standard in North American tournament play, but European methods vary.[1][2]

  1. ^ Manley et al (2011), page 348.
  2. ^ Petkov (2005), page 31.