Response to partner's 3NT overcall

[cherdano]

After posting the above reply, I read further and was surprised to see that more people found 3♠ be worth discussing. Am I alone in thinking the question is between 3♠ and 4♠?

I certainly can't pass at favourable with QJT-7th and 7411 shape including a singleton

in the other major.

[whereagles]

Am I alone in thinking the question is between 3♠ and 4♠?

Definitely not... lol.

[mike777]

After posting the above reply, I read further and was surprised to see that more people found 3♠ be worth discussing. Am I alone in thinking the question is between 3♠ and 4♠?

I certainly can't pass at favourable with QJT-7th and 7411 shape including a singleton

in the other major.

Yes, I would bid 4s before 3s, I thought there was more discussion left in this hand. :). And yes that sounds like a lesson but maybe not.

[Finch]

I would have thought 3S was a fairly normal action on the hand opposite a passed partner.

 

Even looking at the full hand it's hard to say if 3S is a 'success' or not, as 4H is off on a club lead - but you will get the singleton spade lead whether or not you pre-empt.

 

(At one table East tried a 1H overcall over 1D which got pretty much what it deserved: -800 in 4Sx)