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No good response to 4th suit forcing What's your default answer?

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Posted 2005-April-23, 01:14

PriorKnowledge, on Apr 20 2005, 01:02 PM, said:

Playing 2/1, I would rebid 3N. Although the 3C bid may be manufactored, opener treats it as natural in a GF auction.

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I second your view. Not playing 2/1, the 3D call has much more going for it. But, if we are in a game force, then partner could have bid 3D to look for a club stop with 2-3-5-3 distribution. Opposite 2-3-4-4 distribution, I probably want to be in 3NT regardless.

Sometimes I think that the whole concept of bidding a 4th suit forcing without the traditional holding in the suit has been escalating out of control in recent years. For some people it has gone from an occasionally necessary evil to a preferred method. On this hand a lot of correspondents say they have to bid diamonds they don't really have to allow for the possibility that partner has bid clubs she doesn't really have. Maybe we ought to define fourth suit bids in these kind of auctions as artificial relay calls and have done with it.
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