[cnszsun]

Scoring: IMP

??-ps-1♠-ps
??-ps-3♠-ps
??

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What's your plan?

[RichMor]

pass,
2♦,
pass - GLP

[kenrexford]

Kind of weird to know that 1♠...3♠ will be partner's auction regardless of what I open. I suppose 2♦ as an opening is barred (for good reason).

I'd also pass first seat. So, 1♠ as a third-seat opening makes sense.

I'd then want to know what my bids mean now before deciding how to bid. I'd like my preferred methods, namely that 3♦ shows a diamond-heart 5-5 (or greater, tending 5-6 rather than 6-5 because of the 2♥ option) two-suiter, not quite enough to open (with my relaxed standards), in which case I have described my hand perfectly. If that's not available, is 2♦ natural or drury or something else? If 2♦ is drury, and no 3♦ two-suited option, then 2♥ makes sense. 2♥ might make sense even if 2♦ is available.

Heck -- I'll go 2♥, with the assumption that the 3♦ option is out.

So, partner jumps to 3♠ now...

Gotta be forcing after 2♥. Keep with the plan -- 4♦. If partner takes this as a cue in support of spades, thankfully I have the Ace. Hopefully his spades are really good and his declaring even better. Even more hopefully he will bid 4♥ as a Last Train bid.

BTW -- 4♥ as a "last train" call, asking "bid toward slam if you have extras, sign off if not, but pass if 4♦ was natural" is a GREAT idea.

[mikeh]

pass in first seat is clear.

Ken is correct to point out that making partner bid 1♠ then 3♠ whether we opened or passed is weird....heck, it's worse than that! if we pass, he shows the equivalent of about 16 hcp with a good suit (and maybe more if we responded 2red...see below), while if we had opened (why? what?), it would be non-forcing... about 10-12... and the 12 would be ugly.

Anyway, I would pass and then bid 1N.

I prefer to play 1N as semi-forcing, and that would make me slightly more comfortable, especially since I then can play BART if he bids 2♣. I couldn't usually bid 2♦ since that would be a form of drury. I would bid 1N anyway if not semi-forcing.

But... if 2♦ were available, I wouldn't bid it anyway...altho doing so could hit a home run on occasion. Anyway, having bid 1N, I would pass.

Question for the 2red bidders.....isn't 3♠ forcing now? It is surely the only force available, other than a splinter in support of your suit.

[Fluffy]

pass-1NT-pass. Passing 1 spade would had been a better idea

[mike777]

cnszsun, on Jul 23 2009, 08:32 AM, said:

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What's your plan?

pass
1nt(see BART now over 1nt)
pass( I dont think 3s should be 100% forcing here)