Another bet to settle

[Echognome]

Both Vul, MP - Uncontested auction

 

♠52

♥J8

♦AKQJ6

♣AQ75

 

You are dealer and open 1♦. Partner responds 1♠.

 

What now?

[matmat]

2n or 2c come to mind here. i have no faith in my declarer play, so 2c

[rogerclee]

2♣ WTP

[pclayton]

2♣ is obvious unless you are prone to auto-tilt.

[the hog]

Sorry this one makes no sense to me. What's wrong with 2C?

[P_Marlowe]

2C.

 

The alternative, but a far distant alternative, would be 3C.

2NT certainly not, but I could have opened 1NT.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

[cjames]

2♣ wtp?

[Finch]

...and it's too good a hand to have opened 1NT on in the first place, as well as likely to wrongside the contract

[skjaeran]

2♣, 2♣, 2♣. Why would anything else come to mind???

[Echognome]

Thanks all. I'm with you. I said it was a 2♣ wtp? But someone I know well was adamant that this was a 2NT rebid. I'll be enjoying the free beer.

[Free]

♣♣ wtp

[jdonn]

Thanks all. I'm with you. I said it was a 2♣ wtp? But someone I know well was adamant that this was a 2NT rebid. I'll be enjoying the free beer.

Spill who, inquiring minds want to know.

[pclayton]

Thanks all.  I'm with you.  I said it was a 2♣ wtp?  But someone I know well was adamant that this was a 2NT rebid.  I'll be enjoying the free beer.

Spill who, inquiring minds want to know.

obv...

[han]

Hate to say it gnome but I think you won this one.

[neilkaz]

2♣ as I am allowed to hold a max for my bidding.

[kenrexford]

2♣ for me as well.

 

That said, a plug. One of my favorite little pet conventions is a 2♦ opening showing both minors.

 

In the context of a canape approach, this is an integral part of a solution to canape purity, IMO. In the context of a natural strong club like Precision, this also seems to enhance minor bidding and is part of a structure that seems to improve upon the ugly standard Precision/Neopolitan 2♣ and Precision 2♦ openings.

 

In the context of SA or 2/1 GF, this bid also helps with minor two-suiters. Instead of a range from a Rule-of-Twenty garbage hand to a wildly bulky just-under-GF hand, you split the range in two, such that 2♦ shows the "tweener" holding and 1♦...2♣ (or any number of 1♣...whatever auctions with longer clubs) shows a truly limited hand.

 

The benefits are profound. Partners need not courtesy correct on junk, for instance. When you open 2♦, the opponents have been preempted out of a one-level major overcall, which serves in practice to eliminate weak jump overcalls into a major. When the opponents do overcall, or double, the enhanced value expectation from the 2♦ opening, and the level increase, allows more frequent penalty doubles by Responder, and he can do so in complete disregard of a four-card holding in the other major.

 

With this actual hand, then, I would have preferred a 2♦ opening.

 

ICYC, the response structure to a 2♦ opening:

 

2♥: Art, asking. Op with min bids a major fragment (2♠ or 3♣=hearts) if he has one, or 2NT; with a max, Op bids a major frag at 3-L, or 3♦/3NT (distinguish as you wish); after any answer, 4minor is GF and asks Op to RKCB/Exclusion RKCB). 2♠ natural, NF but constructive. X penalty. 3M is GF and 6+. 2NT/3NT nat. P/3♣ pref, 3♦/4♣/4♦ preemptive. 5Minor to play. 2♦-2♥-X might better be "stolen bid;" discuss. Op can reopen over 2♥ by 2♠ with frag. 1♦...2♣ is then less than tweener.

[Finch]

I voted for 2C and I think it is clearly right.

 

However I am amazed at the vote in this poll. Play in a f2f event and I reckon about 80% of the players will rebid 2NT (and another 15% something odd like 3C or 3D).

[Winstonm]

2C.

 

The time to bid NT came and went with the 1D choice. It's either 1NT now or 1D now, and once a course of action has been decided you cannot flip-flop back and forth between the two.

[jchiu]

Which choice do I vote for if I want to bid 4♣?

[Echognome]

Which choice do I vote for if I want to bid 4♣?

I forgot to add the poll option for you:

 

I just want to buy gnome a beer.

[whereagles]

2♣ seems obvious, so where's the problem?