simple question cue or nat?
#2
Posted 2011-December-09, 06:16
I assume it is strong, artificial.
Then Responder's Pass! = not a bust ( RDBL = bust )
So, 3C = natural, 5+ cards, but no 2 of 3 top honors ( otherwise would have bid 3C over the X ).
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#3
Posted 2011-December-09, 06:43
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#4
Posted 2011-December-09, 09:53
#5
Posted 2011-December-09, 19:19
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#6
Posted 2011-December-09, 20:54
Yu18772, on 2011-December-09, 19:19, said:
pass by the responder limited her to 40 minus whatever the 2C bidder held (but at least enough for game). 3C is a club suit; Lord knows what the original double of 2C showed, but we don't seem to care yet.
we will have our auction, and inquire if curious.
#7
Posted 2011-December-09, 22:24
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#8
Posted 2011-December-19, 10:16
#9
Posted 2011-December-19, 10:24
FrancesHinden, on 2011-December-19, 10:16, said:
Isn't redouble a conventional second negative? It is for us. Pass showed at least a little something ---enough for game opposite a 2C opening. The 3C bid, now will not be quite the same as a 3C immediate response, but it still seems natural.
#10
Posted 2011-December-19, 10:40
1. cuebid in support of hearts. Sets trump early, and allows for maximal slam exploration
2. natural, tho very hard indeed to think of a hand on which we want to suggest clubs as trump, given how unlikely it is that doubler would/could psyche clubs
3. an unbiddable hand...no long suit, no fit and no club stop: say Jxxx x KQxx xxxx.
I doubt that partner would ever take it as (3) without discussion.
I like the meta-rule that, in an undiscussed auction, if a bid can be natural, it is natural.
So I take it as natural, but it would be my third choice if I ever discussed the sequence with partner. My choices would be 'unbiddable' as first, cue as second and natural as third.
I would raise with hearts, and bid notrump with clubs and throw up with the unbiddable hand, absent agreements.
#11
Posted 2011-December-21, 07:47
I've never heard of playing redouble as a second negative, although clearly from this forum it's popular in some parts of the world.
Mikeh may think it's unlikely that they would psyche a club suit here, but LHO might have thought he was playing double as conventional.