[jillybean]

Dealer: West Vul: All Scoring: IMP

♠ KJ863 ♥ ♦ 962 ♣ KT743

West North East South

 1♦    1♥    Pass  1♠
 2♦    3♥    Pass  Pass
 Pass  


Do you pass originaly & if not what to you bid now?

[jtfanclub]

Auction looks good to me. If partner wanted to force you to bid, he'd say 3♦.

I don't know what standard is, but I play 3♥ as a hand with the shape to bid 3♥ directly over 1♦ (ie. 7 hearts) but too much strength (11-15). Given that, I don't know why I'd want to bid again.

[plaur]

I would pass first round. 7 hcp and void in partners suit. I dont want to encourage partner and no need to rescue yet.

[pbleighton]

"I would pass first round. 7 hcp and void in partners suit. I dont want to encourage partner and no need to rescue yet."

No way I pass the first time. Scared bridge is losing bridge, IMO.

Pass the second time around is clear.

Peter

[jillybean]

Scoring: IMP

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West North East South

 1♦    1♥    Pass  1♠
 2♦    3♥    Pass  Pass
 Pass  



Here's the full hand, I think opener should have rebid 2♥, oh well

[pbleighton]

I agree with you, 2H would have been enough. Add the heart queen and you have a 3H bid.

Peter

[whereagles]

I would pass 3♥, though after having seen pard's "style", 4♣ stands a mile.

[HeartA]

jillybean2, on Feb 24 2007, 01:26 PM, said:

Here's the full hand, I think opener should have rebid 2♥, oh well 

Opener? who is opener?

North could bid 3D, 3S, or even 2S. Certainly not 3H, not 2H either.

I would have passed 3H as South.

[jillybean]

HeartA, on Feb 24 2007, 01:55 PM, said:

jillybean2, on Feb 24 2007, 01:26 PM, said:

Here's the full hand, I think opener should have rebid 2♥, oh well 

Opener? who is opener?

North could bid 3D, 3S, or even 2S. Certainly not 3H, not 2H either.

I would have passed 3H as South.

Opps have an opening bid and Ive not supported ♥'s.
2♥, 2♠ I could live with but do you really want to bid 3♦ and force me to bid again?

[kgr]

- I would pass iso bidding 1S. I don't want to encourage partner with a void in his suit.
- I would DBL (take out) over 2D with the North hand. If partner would bid 3C after the DBL then I correct to 3H, showing Spade support , 6-card H and a good hand (this is about a maximim 1H overcall for me).
!! Warning: Just consider this as non-expert ideas. Probably you are rather getting to expert level by posting - and thinking over - these hands !!

[helene_t]

Without intervention, 3♥ shows a hand just short of a force, i.e. he wants you to bid game with 8 HCPs or such. I don't think it changes due to the intervention.

North must rebid either 2♥ or 2♠. I prefer 2♥ which is more likely to be playable, although 2♠ gives North the chance of describing both features if opps compete with 3♦.

South has a clear pass of any non-forcing bid, including 3♥.

[the hog]

Of course I would bid 1S! Your partner has 3 card S support and the AQ to boot. The 3H bid is very poor, 2S is a standout. Certainly pass 3H.

[brianshark]

I would never pass 1♥. You have 6+ pts, game is still a reasonably possibility if you have a fit elsewhere, or at the very least, try and investigate for a better partscore. Easy 1♠.

And an easy 2♥ bid by partner. 3♥ is crazy. Pass after any 3♥ bid. Anything else is forcing to game.

[Apollo81]

p should not have bid 3♥

[mikeh]

jb, the fault lies entirely with the 3♥ bid. You did not raise ♥s, and you did bid ♠s. I know there are some who bid 1♠ on 4 card suits, but I think the standard approach is that your 1♠ showed 5 cards. Thus partner knows the major suit in which a fit exists, and it was his/her duty to raise ♠s, not to try to grab dummy by a gross distortion.