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enough for 4D control?

#1 User is offline   kgr 

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Posted 2009-February-25, 11:29

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1♥-4♣!-(DBL)
Pass-??
 
4♣=4+card ♥, singleton ♣ (no void), 12-14 HCP
Pass by partner denies 2nd control in ♣ (..Not sure if 2nd control is useful after splinter)
 
Do you bid 4♦ or 4♥ now. Is your 5th ♦ enough extra to bid 4♦?
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Posted 2009-February-25, 11:39

If 4♦ would be a cue bid, I don't think you need extras to bid it - you should do it whenever you have diamond control. The right way to differentiate between a minimum and a maximum is:
- If opener isn't interested, he signs off over the double of 4♣.
- If opener is interested only opposite a maximum, he passes 4♣. If responder now bids 4♦, opener bids 4♥. With a maximum, responder is expected to bid again.
- If opener is interested opposite any splinter, he passes 4♣, then bids past 4♥.
That allows opener to find out about both responder's strength and his diamond control.
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Posted 2009-February-25, 12:00

I would bid 4♦. Why not? Maybe partner passed just to see if I had diamond control.
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Posted 2009-February-25, 12:04

Partner's pass should deny first round control.

Now I bid 4♦, I don't see why this has to show a maximum, since a maximum will bid past 4♥ anyway.
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Posted 2009-February-25, 12:19

In most situations if partner has shown interest (as by passing here leaving me room) I play that cue-bids below game show only the control and no extra values. This makes 4♦ automatic.
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Posted 2009-February-26, 09:13

If you have shown a range as precise as 12-14 you don't need extras to cue.
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Posted 2009-February-26, 10:32

Thanks all for the answers. On this hand it didn't matter much. I did bid ans partner continued with RKC and 2 aces were missing. (one Ace and Heart K).
Hoping that I can create some more detailed rules, I opened an other post.
- Also because of the support for 4♦ here. I thought it should/was best to show extra's.
- There was a remark that partners pass is showing extras because he can bid 4H with a minimum hand. Bidding 4H does probably not say enything about controls in ♣, but simply says that you are minimum. Can it have D-control?
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Posted 2009-February-26, 10:51

kgr, on Feb 26 2009, 11:32 AM, said:

- There was a remark that partners pass is showing extras because he can bid 4H with a minimum hand. Bidding 4H does probably not say enything about controls in ♣, but simply says that you are minimum. Can it have D-control?

Of course it can. 4♥ is a sign-off that simply just denies slam interest because of lack of power.
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Posted 2009-February-26, 10:54

I would consider 5431 to be extras when the diamond suit is that good.
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Posted 2009-February-27, 04:30

[quote name='kgr' date='Feb 25 2009, 07:29 PM']
Scoring: MP

♠ Ax
♥ AJxxx
♦ KJx
♣ xxx

and bidding was:
1[he]-4[cl]-(DBL)
P-4[he]
4NT-5[cl]
5[he]
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