[Fasteddy]

Scoring: MP

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Say you have a hand such as the above. After opening 1♦ and hearing 1♠ from pard, perhaps 2♠ is best. Any other call highly overstates your values, and there's a good chance the opps will let you bid again even if pard passes 2♠.

However, is 2♠ still right if RHO makes a 2♥ overcall? Unless pard is at least 5-5 in the majors, the opps have at least a 9-card heart fit. It's easy to construct hands where there's a double game -- or even slam -- swing, and surely you'll always bid at least 4♠ if 4♥ comes back to you.

After all that preamble, I'm suggesting that after 1♦ - P - 1♠ - 2♥, opener's jump to 4♠ should always show a hand of this type. With, say, 19 HCP and 4252 distribution, he needs to bid 3♥ at his second turn.

Agree?

[han]

Yes, I think that this is a good agreement and it is standard in some circles.

[Fluffy]

With strong hand and good diamonds bid 4♦, with most 4-6 bid 4♠. Intervention doesn't make a big difference.

[gnasher]

Fasteddy, on Mar 2 2008, 10:33 PM, said:

After all that preamble, I'm suggesting that after 1♦ - P - 1♠ - 2♥, opener's jump to 4♠ should always show a hand of this type. With, say, 19 HCP and 4252 distribution, he needs to bid 3♥ at his second turn.

In the circles where I play that would be regarded as standard.

[jdonn]

A lot of people play this way, quite likely the majority. But I really don't like it since I think it puts too much pressure on the cuebid, which could be several different hand types. I prefer to just bid whatever I would have on the hands with spade support. A hand with as much shape as your example is not common, and in any case I'll always get another chance.