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#1 User is offline   ekim123 

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Posted 2018-September-20, 13:55

we are playing 2/1 and my partner opens and our opponents remain silent during auction. Partner opens 1 spade and I respond 1 NT, partner jumps to 3 clubs. What is my best rebid and what does partner do after my rebid? My hand is Qx xxx AJ9xxx Kx. Expert responses please.
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Posted 2018-September-20, 14:28

3C is GF, hence pass is out.
Bidding your 6 carder now, seems like the most natural thing,
what partner will do, is hard to say, given his hand is missing.
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Posted 2018-September-20, 15:50

The bad hand default here would be 3 . You have a good hand so there's no reason not to bid your suit with a 3 bid. It also has the advantage of here using up the least bidding space to give partner a better chance to describe their hand.
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Posted 2018-September-20, 16:18

Welcome to the forum.

I think you have to accept that 2/1 bidding, especially after a nebulous 1NT response, isn't a perfect science. Here you could have a poor six count, or a useful eleven count. Bidding your six carder seems to be the most natural thing to do, but you'd be bidding your six carder with x xxx KQJTxx xxx.

As Uwe (P_Marlowe) says, if you treat 3 as game forcing, the opener bidder should have nearer a 18-19+ count than a 16-17 for a high reverse. There's also the other consideration that with 5-5 black-suited many players will open 1 these days as opposed to 1.

Bidding 3NT without a stopper on a wing and a prayer is a definite no-no in my opinion. 3 keeps the bidding low and allows partner to describe his hand further.
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Posted 2018-September-20, 16:25

View Postrmnka447, on 2018-September-20, 15:50, said:

The bad hand default here would be 3 . You have a good hand so there's no reason not to bid your suit with a 3 bid. It also has the advantage of here using up the least bidding space to give partner a better chance to describe their hand.

3 seems automatic to me.
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Posted 2018-September-20, 20:30

The problem is more interesting if the minors are swapped, for both partner's and yours.
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Posted 2018-September-21, 15:54

View Postneilkaz, on 2018-September-20, 16:25, said:

3 seems automatic to me.

Obligatory I would say, you have no right or reason to bid differently. Partner will probably rebid 3S (still forcing) or 3NT, but that's his problem.
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Posted 2018-September-21, 20:30

View Postpescetom, on 2018-September-21, 15:54, said:

Obligatory I would say, you have no right or reason to bid differently. Partner will probably rebid 3S (still forcing) or 3NT, but that's his problem.


If opener finds a 3 NT second rebid, you probably have a hand that won't disappoint because of having honors in both of partner's bid suits.

3 also let's opener look for a partial stopper in your hand with a 3 rebid. If that happens, you bid 3 denying the partial stopper and letting opener decide what to do next. But if you hold something like Jxx, then 3 NT should be bid.

If partner rebids 3 presumably showing 6-4, you raise to 4 .

If partner rebids 4 presumably showing at least 5-5, you still bid 4 . Had your hand been Qx xx AJ9xxx Kxx, then raising to 5 instead of 4 comes into view.
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