1 little 2 little 3 little witches

[jillybean]

Dealer: South Vul: NS Scoring: IMP ♠ 53 ♥ 6 ♦ J2 ♣ AKJ98753

 

West North East South

 

 -     -     -     ?  (1st seat) 

[sfbp]

Delete all and insert (sorry I read it as 3 passes to me).

 

3NT gambling

[effervesce]

4♣.

[blackshoe]

3NT (not gambling - we play Namyats).

[han]

4♣.

[rogerclee]

Seems like a textbook 4♣ bid at these colors. 4NT by partner should be to play.

[Guest Jlall]

Agree with 4C. Some people will open 3C on hands like this in order to keep 3N in the picture, but that is not a good idea. Just try to describe your hand.

[cjames]

4♣ seems cool, opening 1♣ and keep rebidding and hope to get x'ed at 3.level and make could be fun as well though :) But more seriously, I would have bid 4♣.

[the hog]

4C if not playing Namyats. 3NT otherwise, but not keen as the suit is not solid.

[Free]

Gambling

[655321]

Gerber for me.

 

Second choice: 1♣.

[zasanya]

Seems like a textbook 4♣ bid at these colors. 4NT by partner should be to play.

With my regular Partners' 3NT showing 8 card minor and nothing else but the colors actually bother me.

[andy_h]

fair is foul and foul is fair...can't believe I remember that lol

But 4C for me. 2nd choice is 3C.

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

 

the choices are 3C, 3NT (if agreed as gambling)

or 4C.

 

The hand is bit too strong for a 3C bid, but not much,

given that you are red vs. green in first seat.

 

If the suit is solid is a matter of partnership

agreement, but partner wont pass 3NT with a void

in clubs, so for me the suit would be solid, but discuss

with partner.

 

The hand is bit too weak for a 4C bid, given that you

are red vs. green in first seat, but not much.

 

Most likely I would go with 4C, but dont mind 3C or 3NT.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

[CSGibson]

4♣, second choice 3N. It's a close decision for me, since both have almost equal levels of preemption, but there's just too much chance of a club slam if partner has the right hand and knows that I only have 5 outside cards (or another shape feature that convinced me to bid this way), and 5 clubs will have play almost as often as 3N when that's right, barring some lucky lead.

[jtfanclub]

6 losers, red (-2), that's 3 clubs.

 

Hey, I may be simple, but...mmmm, shiny.

[ArtK78]

I have a special agreement regarding 3 of a minor openings in 1st or 2nd seat. My regular partner suggested this treatment and told me it was an idea attributed to Barry Crane.

 

3 of a minor shows AQ or AK or better in the suit, preemptive.

 

The idea is that 3 of a minor openings are not that difficult to deal with, so you might as well avoid them unless they convey specific information.

 

With this agreement, I open 3♣.

 

Without this agreement, anything could be right, but I suppose I would go with the majority and open 4♣, with all of its obvious flaws.