[inquiry]

There is a convention called levy 2Diamonds (see "what pro's play) where a jump to 2D over 1C shows limit type hand with diamonds and a club fit. Playing levy 2D, this auction is 100% forcing. I think of this 2D as a fit jump kind of thing. I eventually gave up levy 2D to play criss-cross.

Ben

[sceptic]

I am curious of the advantage of criss cross over levy? or your reason for change Ben?

[junyi_zhu]

I play this 3C as gameforcing. With invitational hands, responder can either bid 2NT or 3D. If it's gameforcing, opener's rebid is clear, 3H as a cuebid to show heart value. and later pull partner's possible 3NT to 4C. With this long soft clubs, you belong to either 5C or 6C. sometimes, 6C can be cold when 3NT goes down:
Sxxx HAx DAKQx CKxxx.

[peefco]

goodwintr, on Aug 29 2004, 01:55 PM, said:

Nobody (so far) has suggested a hand for partner (who responded 1D to your 1C, then bid 3C over your raise to 2D). So I'll propose one: S - Kxx  H - xxx  D - Kxx  C - 9xxx. He responded to 1C in case you had a moose (and also because he didn't want to give the opponents a free run). He didn't raise clubs because no club raise seemed appropriate. He didn't bid 1NT because he didn't want to wrong-side that contract, and because he thought he was a little weak for that bid. (Maybe he is one of those people who believe 1C-1NT shows 8-10.) So he bid a squirrelly 1D, thinking the bidding wouldn't get out of hand. (1C-1D-2D is something of a rarity, after all.) Now he is just taking a preference back to clubs, where he knows you have real length. (He assumes you would have opened 1D with 4-4 in the minors, or that you would have rebid 1NT instead of 2D.)

So, pass 3C, unless you want to bid 4C or 5C as a sacrifice.

T.L.Goodwin

This hand doesnt look serious to me. If we have 17HCP, 4!S and 5!H why opps with 23HCP 9!S and 8!H didnt bid anything ????????????????
3!C is forcing bid and 3!H seams to be the best rebid.

[Flame]

If i have to take a guess at this point, 5c is best (better then 5d , 3nt and partsocores) also slams seems out of the question, since 3c is inv but nf.
So either i bid it, or i can try to reach it slowly with 3h which will still leave room for 3nt by partner, but i doubt this will help, i wont know if 3nt is any better then, so i choose 5c now.