Hanoi5 Posted November 20, 2008 Report Share Posted November 20, 2008 Playing 2/1 what would the meaning of the following action be: 1♥ 1NT2NT ???3NT ??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
awm Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 1♥ - 1NT (forcing)2NT (natural invite, typically 17-18 or something like this) If 1NT bidder now names a suit, without agreement I would assume this is natural and forcing to game. Even "bad" hands with 5-6 hcp and a six-card suit probably want to be in 3NT on this sequence, so it is more useful to be able to make a slam try rather than offer to play in 3-suit. Note that this is forcing to game now that opener showed 17-18; it presumably was not forcing to game initially. It is popular to play transfers here though, so 3♣=♦ and so forth; this does help with the rare "I want to get out" hand while still letting you have slam tries. I would assume that: 1♥ - 1NT(F)2NT - 3m (forcing natural)3NT would be intending to play there, not a good hand for slam in the minor. Pulling this to 4m would be quite rare (I guess a real distributional freak). 1♥ - 1NT(F)2NT - 3♥ (natural)3NT would again suggest a contract, pulling to 4♥ just says "I'd rather play in the suit" If opener likes slam in the suit responder named he can cuebid of course. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachy Posted November 21, 2008 Report Share Posted November 21, 2008 For me, 1H-1NT-2NT by opener shows the "jump to 2NT" hand = balanced/semibalanced 18-19. All bids by responder are forcing; if he does not want to go to game, he will pass 2NT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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