Partner bids 3NT Do you pass?
#1
Posted 2010-December-06, 10:28
♠xx
♥KQJT8xx
♦Qxx
♣x
Bidding goes:
1NT* 2♣* Pa 2♦*
Pa 2♥ Pa 3NT
Pa ???
Where 1NT shows 12-14, 2♣ is a one-suited hand, and 2♦ asks about which suit. Do you pass 3NT or take it out to 4♥?
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#2
Posted 2010-December-06, 10:33
#3
Posted 2010-December-06, 10:45
Hanoi5, on 2010-December-06, 10:28, said:
♠xx
♥KQJT8xx
♦Qxx
♣x
Bidding goes:
1NT* 2♣* Pa 2♦*
Pa 2♥ Pa 3NT
Pa ???
Where 1NT shows 12-14, 2♣ is a one-suited hand, 2♦ and asks about which suit. Do you pass 3NT or take it out to 4♥?
This auction should be a pass or correct auction that promises at the very minimum the ♥32 or maybe the singleton ♥A. In any event 4♥ IMO rates to be a better contract
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#4
Posted 2010-December-06, 10:53
I think it is very close, because the diamond Queen may be an entry, but I'd be worried that in 3N he will need to drive out the heart A and have the diamond as an entry. Put another way, this hand is not what he is probably expecting. I am not criticizing the overcall, but I suspect that if we were to create an example or two of what we are likely to hold for 2♥ red v white, most hands would have more hcp, and more stuff outside the suit. That would certainly be true in my partnerships (tho it would also be true that we'd be bidding here....2♦ transfer to 2♥, usually).
I suspect that at equal or favourable, this hand would be bidding 3♥ rather than 2.
Obviously, it is easy to create a lot of hands on which 3N is better...I just think they are going to be fewer in number than the ones on which 4♥ is better.
#5
Posted 2010-December-06, 11:00
On balance, 4♥ has to be better, but I am prepared to apologize if that is wrong. (killer instinct/on)
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#6
Posted 2010-December-06, 11:01
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#7
Posted 2010-December-06, 12:07
That means partner is doing something that doesn't make sense. Don't let him declare a hand
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#8
Posted 2010-December-06, 13:36
We haven't told partner what he have. We could have quite a different hand and there isn't any obvious way for him to offer a choice of games with a hand such as AKxx x Jxx AQJxx. Certainly he hasn't guaranteed Ax of hearts and we will struggle in 3NT any time he doesn't have it.
So I would pull to 4♥.
#9
Posted 2010-December-06, 13:44
#10
Posted 2010-December-06, 21:14
Have I already denied this hand by not 3H?
Can't chance 3NT disaster when 4H is not.
#11
Posted 2010-December-07, 04:47
#12
Posted 2010-December-07, 10:31