[inquiry]

Scoring: IMP

BPO-003D

South WEST North EAST
  1♣   (1♦)   1♠   (pass)
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Your bid as South. submitted by cherdano

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[hrothgar]

BPO-003D: 2D

I have a VERY hard hand to describe. I don't have any picture bids to show my hand. (Really not reasonable to dedicate many bids to show a hand that wants to reverse into a suit where LHO overcalled). Bidding NT seems flawed. I more worried about suppressing my Spade support than the stiff King.

2D does NOT show a Diamond reverse, however, it has the unmistakable benefit of being the cheapest forcing bid available to me. 2D should probably tend to deny 4+ card Spade support since most of those hands have other ways to advance.

[joker_gib]

2NT

Oh I have stiff ♥K, did not see it :-)

Alain

[P_Marlowe]

2S.

A slight underbid, but if partner passes, we wont
miss game to often.

Marlowe

[mr1303]

I bid 2D at the time, but now prefer 2NT. As Alain said, I'm putting down a diamond in my heart suit by mistake...

[Blofeld]

I liked the 2♦ bid.

[ochinko]

I believe 2NT describes my hand in the best possible way: 18-19 HCP and a diamond stopper. It does not necessarily mean that we'll land in a NT contract. LHO doesn't seem to have five cards in hearts. If he decides to lead under his Ace there even Qxx from partner would create two stoppers. On a spade game LHO would never underlead from his HA.

If partner doesn't have a heart stopper, then 4Sp are not less fragile than 3NT because partner will have to ruff with the high spades from the table.

I'm not sure if this corresponds with the BBO Adv. System but I'll treat 3C from partner as a puppet Stayman now, and bid 3Sp.

Petko

--Added--
If we stop at 3NT, it would be rightsided both because the stronger hand will play it, but also because opps' stronger hand will be on the lead. If I bid 2D and partner goes to 2NT, our NT game will be in jeopardy.

[badderzboy]

oh dear 4♥ splinter !

[han]

I voted 2NT, only other bid I considered was 2D.

[kgr]

I voted 4♠
(I play that 2♠ shows a 5-card...I know that this is probably not the best treatment).
I would now vote 2♦

[pclayton]

2♦ - only since my hand is rather suit oriented. I'll probably never play NT on this, because if pard has 4 hearts, he has at least 5 spades.

We may want to clarify in this poll that 1♠ only promises 4. I think there are some out there that make a neg x with a hand without a 5 card major, but I don't believe thats standard.

[mike777]

2D

cuebid or x always good way to solve difficult hands. For once I do not want to dbl my partner's response.

[HeartA]

Blofeld, on Jun 14 2005, 08:52 AM, said:

I liked the 2♦ bid.

me 2

[Double !]

2 diamonds is my choice, it says to partner, "tell me more", and permits P to rebid 5-card spade suit, introduce hearts (suggesting 5 spades), etc., etc. Just seems like the most flexible bid. Anything, I say ANYTHING else is taking a view on the hand, a no/no.

[Winstonm]

I'm thinking "practical" here. That's my key word in impossible situations. Hence: 2N.

WinstonM

[luke warm]

i voted for 2♦

[Rebound]

I chose 2♠, but I believe it is an underbid and am very interested to see what the panel suggests as an alternative

[Fluffy]

Jlall, on Jun 14 2005, 02:08 PM, said:

heh i anticipated a tight race between 2D and 2N with maybe some 3S bidders in the mix. Should be interesting to see.

I beleived in a unanimous 2NT rebid, but I am normally awful at anticipating what people will do. I eed to buy a better crystal ball.

[Walddk]

Fluffy, on Jun 15 2005, 02:51 PM, said:

I beleived in a unanimous 2NT rebid, but I am normally awful at anticipating what people will do. I eed to buy a better crystal ball.

You are absolutely right. There will not be a unanimous decision among the panelists either.

Roland