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Bid 2 or 3 D?


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What do you bid?  

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  1. 1. What do you bid?

    • 2D
      19
    • 3D
      13
    • 3C
      1


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"Bridge is about tricks, not about points."

 

True, but strain matters.

 

What does pd do when you rebid 3D and he has K10xx-Axxxx-x-Qxx or some such hand?

 

This is a great hand if you play in diamonds, not nearly so good in NT.

 

Make the diamond suit a major, and it's worth a jump rebid. You can insist on 4M over pd's 3NT. 5m is much dicier.

 

Or make the DJ the DQ, and the SA the SK, and it's worth 3D - you have a running suit.

 

Peter

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Indeed. 3 is correct, even playing a good-bad 2NT.

If you play good-bad 2NT, 3D would be forcing to game,

and which game do you want to play, opposite a min. neg.

dbl, with no club stopper?

... but I would say, that the hand is worth 2NT folowed by

3D.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

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1. If you play good-bad 2NT, 3D would be forcing to game,

and which game do you want to play, opposite a min. neg.

dbl, with no club stopper?

 

2. ... but I would say, that the hand is worth 2NT folowed by

3D.

2. If you count only HCPs yes, it's worth only 2NT+3. But this hand has enough extras to warrant a 3 bid.

 

1. That depends on how you play the good-bad 2NT. Some (including me) play that the free 3 bid shows 15-17, but is NF.

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"Bridge is about tricks, not about points."

 

True, but strain matters.

 

What does pd do when you rebid 3D and he has K10xx-Axxxx-x-Qxx or some such hand?

 

This is a great hand if you play in diamonds, not nearly so good in NT.

 

Make the diamond suit a major, and it's worth a jump rebid. You can insist on 4M over pd's 3NT. 5m is much dicier.

 

Or make the DJ the DQ, and the SA the SK, and it's worth 3D - you have a running suit.

 

Peter

If I had the Q of D and/or the Ace of Spade, this hand would be no big problem, nobody would think about a 2 Diamond rebid. So the question is, where is your borderline for a jump and the census was quite well diveded between the guys who prefer 2 or 3 Diamonds.

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Thanks for the answers. I did bid 2D and the bidding ended there.

We missed 3NT.

I think partner had 2 aces and DQ. Probably he should have bid more as well, but if he had less (eg not DQ but Dxxx) then 3NT would also make.

I think your pd owed you a raise.

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