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- From: tnh@sw.stratus.com (Tim Hill)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: bidding question
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- Date: 16 Nov 92 20:20:20 GMT
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- In article <1e6gnlINNnh7@sol.deakin.OZ.AU>, doug@cm.deakin.OZ.AU (Douglas Newlands) writes:
- > I was playing okbridge yesterday when this hand came to afflict me.
- > We were playing 2/1 and this dropped me right into an unfamiliar area and I
- > didn't know how to bid it, so any suggestions which explain clearly what to do
- > and why are welcome.
- >
- > QJ2 KT73 W E
- > AKJ5 T6 1D 1S
- > A985 J 2N 3C
- > AT KQ9874 3S 3N
- >
- > I don't think there are any problems with the first 3 bids but I was unsure
- > how to introduce the clubs.
-
- How 'bout introducing clubs at the 6 level? I agree with Dennis Kibler:
- West's 2N rebid gives East sufficient reason to conclude that 6C will be
- a good contract (provided West has three aces). With my regular partners,
- 4C would be Gerber, so I vote for 1D-1S,2N-4C,4N-6C,P.
-
- (BTW, my preferred agreement is that 4C is Gerber if and only if it directly
- follows a natural 1N or 2N bid, or if responder to a 1N opening starts with
- Stayman or Jacoby and then jumps to 4C. RKC responses are used if Stayman
- or Jacoby suggested a trump suit.)
-
- > I just took a sure plus eventually but how should
- > I continue here. Bid more clubs? How does partner know my clubs are longer?
-
- Partner knows you may have been prevented by the 2/1 agreement from bidding
- your suits in natural order, and if you rebid clubs after he shows three
- spades, then he should work out that you have just four spades and at least
- five (probably six) clubs.
-
- But the premise of this question is that you need to describe your hand to
- partner. Partner's already described his hand to you. You're the captain.
- Take charge.
-
- > Why should 4C not be a cue since we might have agreed spades?
-
- With four spades and 18+ points, opener would have raised straight to four
- spades, or splintered, or forced with 2H or 3C and then raised spades. This
- sequence shows three spades. The search for a trump suit is not over.
-
- > Since partner has opened 1D, is this a place where I can bid 2C and rebid 3C
- > non-forcing and give away the spade suit?
-
- In 2/1 according to Hardy, 1D-2C-2X-3C is game forcing and 1D-3C shows about
- 10-12. In any case, whichever of those sequences is not forcing should not be
- used with a four-card major. Don't give away the spade suit.
-
- I'd respond 2C with the East hand only if 1D-2C-2D-2S were not game forcing.
-
-
- Tim
-