xx1943 Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 After you and WEST passed, your partner opens 2NT (20-22 HCP; balanced or semibalanced), East passes and it is your bid [hv=d=s&v=e&s=s93h752daj7642c97]133|100|Scoring: IMPpass pass 2NT pass????[/hv]Now what? Imho the normal reaction is 3NT. No slam in sight and semibalanced hand with a nice 6-carder. 25-26 HCP between the 2 hands. 3NT should be made more often than 5 ♦ in the long run. What about other bids?3♣ is puppet, you'll get no information about minors.3♦ is xfer to hearts3♠? How do you treat this feature? With which hands you aplly it and what or openers answers?4♦ is Xfer to hearts, isn't it? But what is the difference betwen 3 or 4 ♦?? This was the full hand. 3Nt is down after ♥-lead and 5♦ is made.Just bad luck or bad bidding?[hv=d=s&v=e&n=skqj5ha8dkq8cajt6&w=st8764hktdt95cq32&e=sa2hqj9643d3ck854&s=s93h752daj7642c97]399|300|Scoring: IMP[/hv]Btw. What do you think the answering structure after 2NT. Is this hand another argument for playing a strong-club-system? Looking forward to hear your opinions. Al Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 I guess it's rather bad luck... Even when playing a strong ♣ system, you don't know if ♥ will split that badly. It's pretty automatic to play 3NT, since you guess 6 ♦ tricks + some values partner has will get your total up to 9 tricks pretty easy. Going for a ♦ contract without a good reason seems masterminding... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EricK Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 I think bidding 3NT is better than looking for 5♦. Swap the EW hands, for instance, and I doubt they'd have found the ♥ lead! If, however, 3♣ asks for a 5 card major, you might try that and then bid 3NT if partner doesn't have 5♥. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrexford Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Many things would be an argument for a strong club system, to put on the "for" side of the column. Other things go on the "against" side, of course. This is also assuming, of course, that strong 1♣ folks will end up in some contract other than 3NT... For that matter, 5♦ is not any easy contract either, on a heart lead. If you pull trumps, you cannot set up a pitch in time. If you duck, planning to ruff, you have some transportation problems. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jlall Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 3N is very normal. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 I wouldn't get too worked up about this one. A strong club would get you to 5♦, but even thats not clear. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Obvious 3NT response. You just had the usual 1% bad luck when it mattered B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
keylime Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Something else to consider is if opening a strong club how tricky it'll be to get into the right strain of contract after 1C (2H) X (3H). I think it's easy to result when something that is admittedly anti-percentage happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilkaz Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Very clear 3NT response for me. Even if you have some method to progress towards 5♦ and you bid it, can you be sure that it is better than 3NT and if you don't get to 5♦ and stop in 3NT after a bid, you've given more info to the opps for defence/lead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halo Posted December 19, 2006 Report Share Posted December 19, 2006 Relieved to see I joined a 100% vote. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dake50 Posted December 20, 2006 Report Share Posted December 20, 2006 Response scheme has to show 6-suit somehow. Potential for 3 length tricks cannot be missed. Here 9hcp =3 long tricks + 5hcp = near slam. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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