[Coelacanth]

Playing matchpoints, you pick up

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I don't remember the vulnerability, so please comment if you think it matters.

Your RHO opens 1♥.

You are playing with a partner with whom you've only played a few times, the last time being many years ago. So you don't have a lot of complicated agreements, but when you filled out your card before the game you agreed that your overcall style was reasonably sound and a 1NT overcall is 15-18. Don't know if any of that matters.

Your call?

There's a story, which is why this is in this section.

[Fluffy]

This hand is too strong and too suit oriented for 1NT IMO, ♣A is not big, but ♥KJx is huge. I double planing on bidding game over 1♠, 2NT over 2♣

[phil_20686]

1N.

[mfa1010]

Double.

[hotShot]

If I dbl, my partner will expect a 4 card ♠ suit and a 2nd place to play. Usually my partner will bid his ♣ suit.

If I bid 1NT, my partner will know I stop ♥ and have values with a sort of balanced hand.

So I prefer 1N.

[Coelacanth]

Thanks, everyone.

I just wanted to make sure that I wasn't the only one to think 1NT was reasonable on these cards.

In discussion with my partner after the hand, she agreed with my choice and said a 1♠ overcall would have been OK too. (This after explicitly stating as we discussed style before the round "I won't overcall a 4-card suit..")

I also agree with Fluffy that doubling, planning to bid 2NT over partner's expected 2♣ would have been reasonable.

Now for the story...

I bid 1NT. LHO bid 2♣, partner passed, and RHO bid 2♦. I passed as did LHO and my partner bid 2NT ending the auction.

LHO led the ♣K. Partner put down the dummy with a smattering of quacks in the majors, ♦Kx, and ♣Jxxx. When my RHO followed with the ♣10, it became evident to my LHO (holding ♣KQ-seventh) that I had the singleton ♣A. She called the director. What she expected him to do, I have no idea.

I made 3 quietly for a reasonable score.

[mtvesuvius]

Coelacanth, on 2010-November-08, 12:23, said:

She called the director.

LOL

I agree with the Fluffyness. Double.

[655321]

Double, not 1NT.

[Siegmund]

X>1NT for me too. (Probably only raising a 1S advance to 3S though.) 1NT isn't bad - I've done it with a singleton honor many times - but only when there isn't any other obvious way to show the hand.

We've not seen your partner's hand, but I can't think of a hand where I approve of the delayed-natural-2NT bid.

[Coelacanth]

Siegmund, on 2010-November-08, 15:41, said:

We've not seen your partner's hand, but I can't think of a hand where I approve of the delayed-natural-2NT bid.

It was something like

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Obviously we make more tricks in spades; +150 was an average-minus. I think only 2 pairs bid a game; others were picking up +200 on defense. Somebody picked up +1400 on defense

[P_Marlowe]

I wont pass, I think 1NT is a fine call.