Gerben42 Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 What is your agreement (if any) about this bid? If no agreement, what would you think it would be with your regular partner / with a pickup partner? (1♣) 1♦ (1♥) 2♥ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P_Marlowe Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 What is your agreement (if any) about this bid? If no agreement, what would you think it would be with your regular partner / with a pickup partner? (1♣) 1♦ (1♥) 2♥ Yes, we do, for us this would show a strong hand with spades.Playing with an unknown partner face to faceI would shoot him, playing online ..., I wouldtry to find a bid, which minimizes the damage. With kind regardsMarlowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 For me it is natural, analogous to (1m) P (1♥) 2♥ And for the same reason: the 1♥ bid could be on xxxx in the suit, and I may well hold a decent 6 card suit. I play a lot of transfers, but not after the opps change of suit after our overcall, and, in any event, I fail to see why this should be a transfer: you can already bid 1 or 2♠ (unless you have taken 1♠ away for a reason that escapes me... I don't see how a transfer use, to either 1N or 2♣, rates to be good enough to overcome the loss of a natural ♥ bid) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Robert Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 Hi Everyone With two cue bids available, I play the lower cuebid shows a limit+ raise with 3 card support and the higher cuebid shows a 4+ support limit+ raise. Did I first see this idea used while reading Ambra? Regards, Robert Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cascade Posted September 15, 2006 Report Share Posted September 15, 2006 For me this would be natural for exactly the same reasons that Mike states. If the opponent's 1♥ bid guaranteed a five-card suit then 2♥ would not be natural but we don't have a specific agreement. I wouldn't make this bid in a pick-up partnership. If my partner made the bid I would not be sure what he meant. I suppose I would be most likely to play him for some sort of cue-bid. Curiously my almost pick-up partner tried this with me this week in a similar auction. She followed it up with 3♥. I correctly deduced that she needed a heart stopper for 3NT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrexford Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 Natural. Same reasons. However, this reminds me of a similar problem I once faced with a first-time partner. See:http://web2.acbl.org/nabcbulletins/2005spring/db5.pdfat Page 6. For the record, our team was WAY outclassed, and WAY behind. So, my heart suit quality was a tad less than expected... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SoTired Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 After (1C) 1D (1H), IHMO2H = natural2C/3C = 3-card/4-card LR+ (when q-bid at both 2- and 3-level below 3-of-our-suit) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted September 16, 2006 Report Share Posted September 16, 2006 No agreement = by default, natural = my agreement ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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