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Bid on? Trouble ahead ?

#1 User is offline   geofspa 

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Posted 2009-June-25, 14:09

Scoring: IMP

- 2♣ p 2♦
p 3♣ p 3♠
p 3NT p ?


I see trouble ahead - when I post here you know something interesting happened at the table.

So the 2♣ followed by 3♣ by my partner means that we can not stop short of game pretty standard so far. I follow showing my long spades and partner bids 3NT. This is not forcing as we are at the game level and it shows at least a partial stopper in both hearts and diamonds.

Should I bid 4♠ - my feeling is that my hand is useless unless spades are trumps but your input is appreciated.

I will follow up with further table play later in this post - that is if anyone post any responses.
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Posted 2009-June-25, 14:36

I would bid 4♠. Partner has no way of knowing that you have 7 spades, and it is unlikely that he has a void in spades.

Your hand is virtually worthless in a notrump contract. It would be very unlucky (but by no means impossible) if it turned out that 4♠ didn't make but 3NT does.

Partner could have 9 running tricks and be short in spades, but, more often, he has a semi-balanced hand with long clubs.

By the way, nothing prevents partner from correcting back to 4NT if he really has no spades and 9 or 10 tricks in hand. It would be REALLY unlucky to find that he has exactly 9 tricks.
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Posted 2009-June-25, 15:20

4S.

If I look into my hand, I see spades 7 and I will tell partner,
that I am really interested in playing them.

I think I would have bid 2S instead of 2D, but it is close, and
I can live with the choose 2D bid.

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Posted 2009-June-25, 18:22

ArtK78, on Jun 25 2009, 03:36 PM, said:

I would bid 4♠. Partner has no way of knowing that you have 7 spades, and it is unlikely that he has a void in spades.

Your hand is virtually worthless in a notrump contract. It would be very unlucky (but by no means impossible) if it turned out that 4♠ didn't make but 3NT does.

Partner could have 9 running tricks and be short in spades, but, more often, he has a semi-balanced hand with long clubs.

By the way, nothing prevents partner from correcting back to 4NT if he really has no spades and 9 or 10 tricks in hand. It would be REALLY unlucky to find that he has exactly 9 tricks.

I agree with your fine explanation and also bid 4♠
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Posted 2009-June-25, 18:23

I would rebid my 7 card major.
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