[nickf]

Scoring: IMP

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so i'm playing a teams match and pick up the west cards - our system accomodates sick pre-empts so i could open 3 spades to show this hand but i wussed and passed - north passed and pard opened 1 club - south passed

hmmm - i do like to pass with stuff like this - but i bid 1 spade - who knows ?

like always pard rebid 2nt to show a good 18 to 20 or so balanced - i cant play 3 spades so the choices are pass, 3nt and 4 spades - i bid 4 spades - who knows ?

north led the 5 of hearts - i won and played the queen of spades - south won the ace as north played the jack - south exited a spade

it occured to me that south was lured by the need to stop the heart ruffs - i won the spade and played the 9 of diamonds which went - 9 4 2 J - south played another spade

i won as north discarded her second heart

i could play for that diamond break or i could give the club suit a whirl - who knows ?

[whereagles]

At that stage, if you play a club and LHO goes up with an honor (which he should do with HTx), you can't go back to hand to play a second club. So I guess you're stuck with the diamond suit. Or play for some squeeze in the minors, but that's even more guessing than diams..

[flytoox]

whereagles, on Jan 18 2005, 03:02 PM, said:

At that stage, if you play a club and LHO goes up with an honor (which he should do with HTx), you can't go back to hand to play a second club. So I guess you're stuck with the diamond suit. Or play for some squeeze in the minors, but that's even more guessing than diams..

This is the point! NO choice really, have to stick with what you have done. At least you are consistent with urself:)

[MarceldB]

nickf, on Jan 18 2005, 04:00 PM, said:

like always pard rebid 2nt to show a good 18 to 20 or so balanced - i cant play 3 spades so the choices are pass, 3nt and 4 spades - i bid 4 spades - who knows ?

Checkback (3♣) will solve that problem and you can bid now 3♠ directly as n.f. and such a hand

[Fluffy]

There is no thing such as NF 3 level bids after 2NT since 2NT is already GF.

If you liked the ♣ you should had tried before giving opponents another option on jamming your chances, you made a risky plan playing a ♦ (opponents could play the minor suit not working and you would be down, note that your hand is kinda clear to them since you didn't open), so stick with your initial guess and play a ♦.