beauchamp0

Sign of a good poll: 3 options, each within a vote or 2 of 33%.

3NT is an awful bid. With that dummy, you would easily make 6♣.

After 1 of a minor by partner and a 1NT overcall by RHO, I respond as if partner had opened 1NT. Thus, I would rebid 2♣ Stayman with the example hand.

Interesting situation came up tonight. North had ♠ A98 ♥ 8743 ♦ A964 ♣ J5 and the bidding went South West North East 1♠ P 2♠ P 3♥ P ? where 2♠ was constructive and 3♥ a short suit game-try. North finally bid 4♥ but South dropped the ball and simply bid 4♠, because of a lack of primary controls. Sitting West, once the hand was over I congratulated North on his bid, but he answered that he simply did not know what to do, feeling he had too much for any other bid! I told him that he had inadvertently invented a congratulation bid: "Partner, I'm maximum for my previous bidding, have no wasted values in ♥, and 2 key cards." I stopped playing in 1992 and started again 8 months ago, so I imagine that since then someone has suggested that treatment, but I don't remember seeing it in print or hearing about it between 1974 and 1993. :D