[Aberlour10]

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Playing with random partner, without any agreements...

North opened 1nt...South 2s...North 3c..West 3s...South... ?.....

or how should the "standard" bidding start and follow?

Thanks for comments

Robert

[TylerE]

Play with a regular partner and establish at least a modicum of agreements?

[hrothgar]

From what I can tell, South is playing 2♠ as Minor Suit Stayman.

North might be playing 4 way transfers, though I'm not sure why he responded 3♣ with Hxx in support of partner's club suit.

Then, of course, we have the excelleht question why West decided to bid 3♠ during the second round of the auction rather than bididng 2♠ to begin with

This is an excellent illustration why you aren't going to achieve decent auctions playing with a random partner without any agreements...

This is especially true where freaks are concerned. The question whether the expression freaks refers to 6-6 hands with a pair of bullets or the players at the table is left as an exercise for the user

[FrancesHinden]

hrothgar, on Apr 28 2008, 05:19 PM, said:

Then, of course, we have the excelleht question why West decided to bid 3♠ during the second round of the auction rather than bididng 2♠ to begin with

...out of turn...

[vuroth]

FrancesHinden, on Apr 28 2008, 11:41 AM, said:

hrothgar, on Apr 28 2008, 05:19 PM, said:

Then, of course, we have the excelleht question why West decided to bid 3♠ during the second round of the auction rather than bididng 2♠ to begin with

...out of turn...

I seem to recall from a recent discussion that SAYC doesn't really have a good way to explore minor suit slam after 1NT. Whether or not you're playing SAYC, things would be tough with a sane partner that you understood.

If I trusted partner and was buying the beer after the hand, I might try 4♠.

I think I'd bid 5 of whatever minor I was having luck with that day.

0.02, and none of this is expert opinion for sure.

V