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  1. 1. your bid

    • 2C
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    • 2D
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      0
    • 2S
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Dealer: South Vul: EW Scoring: IMP K K53 AKJ43 Q973

 

West North East South

 

 -     -     -     1

 Pass  1    Pass  ?

 

Your bid and why please - or maybe you would have made a different opening?

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Playing normal 2/1 GF, I rebid 2, this isn't even a problem.

 

However, this is a systemic fix for me when playing my full Inquiry2over1 stuff...This is because for some odd reason, I play the normal rebid of 2 has a non-standard meaning. It could be balanced 17+, or a strong diamond one suiter (one most jump rebid 3 with), or a true minor two suiter, strong. A jump to 3 shows a weak minor two suiter. For this reason (and in anticipation of this problem), I would have opened 1NT.

 

But here, I would be forced to rebid 2, but it is not all bad. 2 is 99.9% forcing (it denies four card spade support and a hand strong enough to open 2, etc, so I have seen a hand with lots of clubs and little value that responder choose to pass. Over 2, partner can bid 2, which can be a pretty serious false preference, or 2 which shows long suit wanting to play 2 opposite a 17-19 balanced hand, 2NT which is a transfer to 3 (with a diamond one suiter, opener bids 3 over 2NT), 3 which is a transfer to 3, and a few higher bids, but the most forward going bid is 2. Here 2 seeks more infomation, and promises more values than a 2 rebid. Over 2 I would rebid 2NT. A slight overbid, admittedly, but the fifth diamond and the good shape may make up for the fact that I am 1 hcp short for this bid.

 

So if partner held long spades and weak hand, like everyone else after 2 I get to 2. If partner held some weak ahnds, even with 4 and 2, I would get to 2 (he will be 5224 because with 6 he would have bid 2 when weak). If he has five clubs and a weak hand, he would bid 2NT over 2 planning on passing the 3 rebid.

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Why open 1NT instead of 1 since you don't have a rebid problem.

You can rebid 2

 

I don't see why you would open 1NT since you don't need to

 

 

Compare the hand above to this one:

 

Spades: K

Hearts: A x x

Diamonds: A K x x x x

Clubs: Q T x

 

 

Richard Pavlicek suggested opening this 1NT

 

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These also are problematic (from Richard Willeys post on RGB)

 

S K

H KJT4

D AQ84

C KT73

 

 

S K

H KJT3

D AQ873

C KT4

 

 

Neither of these hands has a reasonable rebid after 1D - (p) - 1S

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2 and to be honest, I can't understand why this is in Advanced and Expert class bridge (at least to this point in the problem). I think if you've opened 1, then you've prepared a 2 rebid. If you want to debate the merits of opening 1 vs opening 1NT, that is a different question (and one you've posted elsewhere). If the question is what to bid after 1 - 1 - 2 - 2/2/2NT, etc, then that is a different question as well. But for this problem, I would suspect that the expert community would be unanimous. (I write this knowing that one person chose 2, but that could have been a misclick or a monkey. Who knows?)
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