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If this is an awful choice for you, your choice should be:

 

Change your system, so that 1 NT does not show a stopper. You do not often need one for ONE NT. Even if they can cash 6 diamonds you can still make your contract.

Develop a later bidding where partner can ask for a real stopper and what to do after preempts and doubles.

 

After you did, you have no more awful choice, you simply bid 1 NT like anybody else.

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[hv=d=e&v=n&s=skq3h1052d8532ckq3]133|100|Scoring: IMP[/hv]

 

Auction goes pass, pass, 1D, x, pass, ?

 

What do you say with my hand?

Well the choices appear to be 1, 1, 1NT. The problem with the first 2 is they underbid your hand strength because of your shape. The 1NT bid does not have a stopper but with 4 cards in the suit I would use it over the first 2.

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my partner turned out void in diamonds, and I got pulled out of 1NT into 2H.

 

The stopper rule is less important in this situation, but I'd hate for my partner to take his 15pts and bid 2NT to invite, where we lose 5 diamonds off the top.

others mentioned that an alert partner will bid, for instance, 2D instead of 2NT unless he, himself, has a diamond stopper.

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my partner turned out void in diamonds, and I got pulled out of 1NT into 2H.

 

The stopper rule is less important in this situation, but I'd hate for my partner to take his 15pts and bid 2NT to invite, where we lose 5 diamonds off the top.

(1d)=x=p=1nt

p=2h=p=?

 

 

 

I will try 4h now.

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my partner turned out void in diamonds, and I got pulled out of 1NT into 2H.

 

The stopper rule is less important in this situation, but I'd hate for my partner to take his 15pts and bid 2NT to invite, where we lose 5 diamonds off the top.

(1d)=x=p=1nt

p=2h=p=?

 

 

 

I will try 4h now.

And I think that is closer to an underbid than an overbid.

 

After bidding 4 I would feel sure that I can write the '4' (as in 420, 450, 480) already on my score card.

 

Rik

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my partner turned out void in diamonds, and I got pulled out of 1NT into 2H.

 

The stopper rule is less important in this situation, but I'd hate for my partner to take his 15pts and bid 2NT to invite, where we lose 5 diamonds off the top.

So you then bid 4H? Yes?

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my partner turned out void in diamonds, and I got pulled out of 1NT into 2H.

 

The stopper rule is less important in this situation, but I'd hate for my partner to take his 15pts and bid 2NT to invite, where we lose 5 diamonds off the top.

So you then bid 4H? Yes?

well im posting in this thread with retroactive goggles.

 

In the actual deal, since our agreement was 1NT guarenteed stop, I bid 2D and then passed after my partner bid 2H

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my partner turned out void in diamonds, and I got pulled out of 1NT into 2H.

 

The stopper rule is less important in this situation, but I'd hate for my partner to take his 15pts and bid 2NT to invite, where we lose 5 diamonds off the top.

So you then bid 4H? Yes?

well im posting in this thread with retroactive goggles.

 

In the actual deal, since our agreement was 1NT guarenteed stop, I bid 2D and then passed after my partner bid 2H

I understand, over the decades Jeff R of BW has been a huge advocate that:

 

 

1y=p=p=1nt does not promise a stopper in Y so:

 

 

as you read the forum you will see where jump shifts and strong reverses do not even 100% promise a real suit. :)

 

 

 

1y=x=p=1nt .....showing 100% a stopper goes out the window. :)

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my partner turned out void in diamonds, and I got pulled out of 1NT into 2H.

So you then bid 4H? Yes?

So if partner does have, say, Axxx Qxxxx - Axxx, should he:

 

A. Bid 1H originally instead of double

B. Pass 1NT

C. Accept -100 in 4H instead of +110 in 2H

 

I don't know the answer but it seems playable that a weak distributional doubler can pull 1NT and a hand too good to overcall can cue or jump.

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my partner turned out void in diamonds, and I got pulled out of 1NT into 2H.

So you then bid 4H? Yes?

So if partner does have, say, Axxx Qxxxx - Axxx, should he:

 

A. Bid 1H originally instead of double

B. Pass 1NT

C. Accept -100 in 4H instead of +110 in 2H

 

I don't know the answer but it seems playable that a weak distributional doubler can pull 1NT and a hand too good to overcall can cue or jump.

i bid 1h forseeing the issue if pard bids 1nt, otoh if I choose x and pard bids 1nt I pass.

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I don't know the answer but it seems playable that a weak distributional doubler can pull 1NT and a hand too good to overcall can cue or jump.

You may not know you know the answer, but you do know the answer :)

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

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I don't know the answer but it seems playable that a weak distributional doubler can pull 1NT and a hand too good to overcall can cue or jump.

You may not know you know the answer, but you do know the answer :)

 

Fred Gitelman

Bridge Base Inc.

www.bridgebase.com

In which case with the given responding hand a 3H call is obvious. Every honour card is working.

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