luis Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 Cuebids are usually hard to understand for beginners or int players but there're some positions where cuebidding is easier and it's a good way to get a first understanding of what a cuebid means and when to use it. This hand was played in BBO recently: Nobody vul. You have: TxAKxTxxxQTxx Bidding: Pd RHO You LHO p p 1s2h p ? Being already a passed hand you have a very nice maximum for a passed hand, excellent 9 counter with AK in your pd's suit so a 2s cuebid carry the meaning to pd: "I have a super-maximum for a passed hand." When you are already a passed hand and your pd bids if you have one of the best hands you may have for your pd being a passed hand a cuebid is usually the right bid to send him the message. I bid 2s alerted as "I like your t-shirt" :-) Opener now rebid 3d which actually helped pd to determine that I might have AK of hearts and the cQ for my cuebid he checked with 4NT and over a 5d bid by RHO I bid 6h since no matter what pd was asking for I must have it. Pd's hand: AK9xQxxxxxAKJ Making 6 on a diamond lead. 4NT was a very nice bid by 2over1 who was my pd at the table. He was just checking for AK of hearts since it was almost evident that I should have the cQ after opener showed spades and then bid 3d. No pair got to this nice slam and many languisehd at 2h making 6. I decided to present this hand to show a very nice bid by 2over1 and that cuebids sometimes are easy to understand and provide very useful information to your pd. Hope it helps.Luis. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted October 17, 2003 Report Share Posted October 17, 2003 I was kibitizing this table yesterday, and I will add two points.. First, only one other player cue-bid with luis's hand, most raised hearts to 3 level directly. And luis and steve were the only pair out of 16 to bid this excellent slam. The passed hand cue-bid always has to be maximum passed hand, and a fit. Very nice indeed. Ben Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the hog Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 The cue bid is a nice bid, but one thing would greatly concern me about bidding 6 on this hand. Opener has shown a 5-5 at least for this bidding. This suggests that trumps are not breaking and it is likely you have a trump and a D to lose.I would feel much more comfortable bidding 6 with a 6th Heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted October 18, 2003 Report Share Posted October 18, 2003 the slam made <this> time.. not to take away from luis' or steve's bidding (which was very good), but as responder i'd probably bid 3H also.. the main reason is, partner didn't double before showing the hearts.. true, plenty of slams make with fewer points than 'accepted', but usually there's an awesome fit with a stiff or void somewhere in responder's hand Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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