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Clubs or Spades?

#1 User is offline   kgr 

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Posted 2005-November-13, 04:57

Scoring: IMP

Bidding starting with LHO goes:
(1D)-1H-(1NT)-?
What is your bidding plan?
This is what your partner will think about your bids:
2C: Change of suit. You haved good clubs and are not broke, but it is not forcing
2D: mixed raise. Either support for H and a limt hand, or a hand too strong to bid something else.
2S: Change of suit. You haved good clubs and are not broke, but it is not forcing
...or do you want to bid something else.
BTW: you did not really discuss what a jump bid means here. Probably your partner will take a 3C bid as a good club suit and support for H
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Posted 2005-November-13, 05:42

None of the above: 2NT
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Posted 2005-November-13, 06:15

Gerben42, on Nov 13 2005, 01:42 PM, said:

None of the above: 2NT

Not sure your partner (me) would understand that.
It should logically show 5-5 S/C?
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Posted 2005-November-13, 08:36

How light do you overcall? If you are agressive partner has 8+ HCP at the one level. If that is the case a NF 2♣ seems right to me. I expect I will get to bid ♠ if I want to on the next round as the HCP seem evenly divided (17-23 at worse). Even if you overcall more soundly 2♣ still seems right to me.

Aside: I know at least one expert that plays 2NT here as a cue bid showing 4+ card ♥ support. The 2♦ cue bid is reserved for 3 card ♥ support.

In this competitive auction it is unclear to me what 2NT means. I do not have an agreement on this in my most regular partnership.
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Posted 2005-November-13, 10:44

2C, intending to bid 2S

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Posted 2005-November-13, 14:41

2C. The bidding will not die. You can bid the appropriate number of spades next. With this hand type I think it is very often right just to bid out your shape, expecially when you have clubs and spades.
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Posted 2005-November-15, 13:43

This kand did lead to a negative swing. My partner did choose to bid 2S becuase he thought that ♠ are more important then ♣. 2♠-1. I had J-Kxxxx-Axx-Jxx
At the other table the opps did bid the 4♣X and did make +1.
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Posted 2005-November-15, 13:51

Easy 2C bid, it is very unlikely that I don't get a chance to show spades next.
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Posted 2005-November-15, 14:10

2C seems clear, as its a good place to play (should that happen) pard will know what to lead against NT and you will keep your S entry intact etc. If pard has more, whether he passes or not, if you choose to bid S (reasonable) then he will know where to place the contract.
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Posted 2005-November-15, 18:20

2C, without hesitation. The bid will not die here, and you'll be able to bid yr spades
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Posted 2005-November-16, 20:54

This hand will poorly play in ♠ if partner doesn't have 4. And 1♥ tends to deny that holding. I would bid 2 or 3♣
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