bravejason

Partner bids a suit and you have a singleton spot card in that suit. You then find a trump fit in another suit. Once the trump fit is found, do you count the singleton in partner's suit as an asset when re-evaluating your hand? How is the evaluation of the singleton different than if your partner had never bid that suit? Does it matter if partner opens the suit versus names the suit as a rebid? I treat the singleton spot card the same no matter what (i.e., +2 points after a trump fit is found) because I figure that I can ruff the cards either way, but was wondering if there was a better approach. If instead of a singleton spot card, suppose it was a singleton honor? Does anything change for the distribution evaluation? Do you make any adjustments to the high card points in the re-evaluation as compared to your initial evaluation? I initially treat the singleton honor like any other singleton honor and reduce its hard card point value by some amount depending on which honor it is. Once partner bids the suit, I count the full value of the high card points. On the distribution side, I treat it just like a spot card. Again, just wondering if there was a better approach.

LHO deals and opens 1 club. Partner overalls with 1 spade. RHO passes. Holding 4 spades and opening points, what do I bid to describe my hand? I ask because on BBO in solitaire bridge, all jumps in spades in this auction show 5+ spades. A cue bid shows a few as 10 points, which I interpret to mean that a cue bid is a limit raise. Bids of NT showed 2 or fewer spades. So I was at a loss to find a bid that showed opening points plus support. All I could think of to do was bid 4 spades. In general, how do you show opening points plus support in a competitive auction?

Is there a standard technique for dealing with weak side suits with both declarer and dummy have the same such suit, particularly when the suits are not short? Here's an example deal: Dealer: S-9832 H-AK983 D-KJ C-K4 Dummy: S-J754 H-QT74 D-A7 C-A93 Is there any standard approach to try to avoid losing three spades?

I've read that you need 13+ points to respond with a Jacoby 2 NT. The question is can those points include points that are only counted when supporting partner's suit or do they need to be points as would be counted when deciding to open the bidding? If I have a hand that is worth only 10 to 11 points if I was the dealer, but 13+ in support of partner's major suit, would it be OK to respond with a Jacoby 2 NT after partner bids 1 of a major?

Ah. I bet this is the reason why.

I was playing solitaire bridge and I was dealt this hand: South: S-KQJT8, H-AKQ3, D-A74, C-8 East Robot opened with a pass and the bidding went: E , S , W , N , E , S , W , N , E , S , W P , 2C, P , 2N, P , 3S, P , 7S, P , P , P A club was led by the West Robot and the North Robot tabled this dummy: North: S-642, H-T95, D-KQJ, C-AKQ6 Everything is wonderful except for the fact that the opponents have the Ace of Trumps. Why would the North Robot jump directly to 7 spades?

What is the general approach for bidding when RHO deals and opens one of a suit and you have 4 or 5 cards in RHO's suit, a minimal opening hand (12-15 points), and either none of your other suits are biddable or your biddable suit(s) is lower ranking than RHO's suit? Also, does the approach change based on how much strength you have in RHO's suit. For example, would you do something different holding AJxxx versus holding xxxx? I was playing rubber bridge with family and ran into the situation where dealer opened with 1 diamond and my partner, who was dealer's LHO, held AQJxx of diamonds. Partner, who is new to the game, didn't know what to do and after some discussion (it's a highly informal game), bid 2 diamonds on the advice of my father. Father's logic was that since my partner held good diamonds, partner isn't afraid of dealer's diamonds and that it is possible dealer has only small diamonds. Admittedly, if dealer held only small diamonds, there would likely be 5 of them. Father's idea is that it would be easy to draw trumps since partner held most of the high trumps. My argument was that we don't want to be in diamonds since we know our best case trump split is 4-0, assuming partner and I have 9 trumps. Moreover, if dealer has only small diamonds, then not only do we have to contend with an adverse trump split, we also have to contend with dealer's high cards in the side suits.