[benlessard]

1D-----(1H)--------X--------(P)
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Kxx
Q
Axxxx
KJxx

What is your bid ? and what is your follow up if opps compete further.

edited This is MP all white.

[mtvesuvius]

2♣ wtp

[655321]

2♣ obviously.

I suppose the reason this was posted in A/E forum instead of B/I is that you want to bid 1♠. I don't like a 1♠ bid at all - why distort a simple auction by bidding a 3 card suit when you have a natural bid available? If there is further competition I don't mind a later 2♠, assuming partner promised exactly 4 card spades.

[CSGibson]

2 ♣, don't consider this a problem. If I feel a need to compete further, I probably X, but I will probably let partner make more aggressive moves on this.

[Phil]

2♣. I would consider further competition to 2♠ an overbid, unless pard made an action double at some point.

[hanp]

2C. I would certainly balance with 2S if 2H comes back to me.

[cherdanno]

In one variant of my preferred agreements 1♠ shows exactly 3 spades - in that case I see no reason not to bid it.

[Codo]

In one variation of my preferred agreements X denyed 4 spades.

Playing standard, this is an easy 2 club bid, followed from a spade bid next.

Luckily rho did not bid 2 Heart, else I had a much worse problem.

[whereagles]

Some styles play 1♠ here as a min and 3 cards - precisely what we have.

Not playing that way, 2♣ I guess.


Codo: if RHO did bid 2♥ we have a much simpler problem: double

[gnasher]

I play that 1♠ here shows exactly three. Bidding 1♠ with four just allows LHO back in cheaply, and gains almost nothing from a constructive point of view.

[skjaeran]

1♠, showing three of them.