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Tricky Takeout

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Posted 2019-January-19, 08:05

View PostCyberyeti, on 2019-January-17, 18:12, said:

3♠ tends to be staymanic particularly if you do play leb leading to a VERY tricky 4♥.


Interesting how sometimes something comes up that identifies "holes" in your system. I've played Lebensohl 2 NT for years as primarily a way to distinguish between bust response to the double and decent values. The situation is a little different than Lebensohl in response to competition over partner's 1 NT. Partner is describing a hand "short" in the opponents suit and presumably without real light values.

But there's no reason, you shouldn't include some other pieces of Lebensohl as well. I'm not sure all of Lebensohl applies though. Clearly bidding NT with or without the relay is useful. Given OP hand and the auction as given, I'd be inclined to bid 3 NT to show values without a stopper and likely no 4 card ♥ suit.

BTW, I'd also bid 2 NT with the South hand to start.
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