Bidding Plan

[hrothgar]

You hold

 

♠ AKQ75

♥ A75

♦ T7

♣ K64

 

RHO opens 1♣.

 

What's your bidding plan?

[inquiry]

i overcall 1♠. I do not object to a 1NT overcall instead.

[Guest Jlall]

1S. I do object to a 1N overcall :)

[kfay]

1♠ for me.

 

Then I looked at the poll and 1NT, being suggested, became attractive. But my initial thought was 1♠ so that's what I'm bidding. I couldn't be swayed.

[jdonn]

1♠, and I hate 1NT a lot, to me it's a clear error.

[cjames]

1♠, 1NT on this hand is not my style.

[pclayton]

1♠ or the double / x♠'s route. I don't have a strong preference really.

 

Personally I think this hand is better than a 16 count.

 

A 1N overcall looks kind of weird to me.

[skjaeran]

1♠ for me. Not close to x..♠. Too much potential for 1NT.

[Cascade]

1♠ a good near maximum overcall. I was about to say maximum but I have been experimenting with better and better maximums for one-level overcalls mainly with success lately.

 

1NT seems wrong to me with only one club stopper and great spades. If my suits were something like ♠KJxxx and ♣AQJ maybe with a compensating value elsewhere then I would be happier with 1NT.

[mikeh]

1♠, and I hate 1NT a lot, to me it's a clear error.

agreed: the worst kind of hand-hogging pseudo-expert call :o

[han]

1S, again looking forward to the story.

[655321]

1♠

 

I don't hate 1NT as much as most of the other posters, in fact I don't mind it at all.

1NT is often a better overcall than 1M when the hand is in range.

 

On this particular hand the factor swaying me to 1♠ is that we have no lead value at all. (If game is on,) by overcalling 1♠ we can end in 4♠ when partner has a shortage, but sometimes we may be able to play 3NT from partner's hand.

[MFA]

1♠.

But I can live with 1NT and X + spades.

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

 

1S, 1NT being the alternative.

 

I used to play, that overcalls are limited in strength,

the upper limit was somewhere around 15HCP.

It did work, but maybe thats just my memory, and I

wont feel happy, if I have to introduce spades on the

3 level.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

[cherdano]

My plan is to show my club stopper if partner makes any encouraging bid. (After I have overcalled 1♠, of course.)

[Cascade]

My plan is to show my club stopper if partner makes any encouraging bid. (After I have overcalled 1♠, of course.)

One stopper might not be enough. If I overcall spades and rebid 2NT or 3NT partner might expect something more like ♣AQx or ♣KJT. Perhaps a better route would be to overcall spades and then make a directional asking cue-bid. This might be more difficult if partner raises spades where a cue could be misunderstood as being more interested simply in some greater number of spades.

[jdeegan]

B) 1♠.

Seems like the obvious bid. No doubt, some other call works better on the actual hand (else why is it here?), but absent some (unexpected) brilliant analysis, I have to go with what I'm looking at in front of me.

[dake50]

X, then 2C over 1H, 1D. Then 2S.

Get 2H=5cH rebid =GREAT;

Get 1N/2N=C-stop rebid =GREAT;

Else = "I have spades" and 16 prime points. Partner hasn't helped this time.