Raising partner

[hanp]

My earlier 4S response in this thread was a bit facetious. Surely everybody here has some forcing raise available. But if you are playing with somebody new to the game, I don't think it is so strange to just blast game. Some of the inevitable losses you get by playing a stone age system you will get back by the non-revealing auction. The chances for slam are remote, we have no keycards.

 

I saw codo and pirate22 hint that they might be willing to stop below game. Even though the honors are pretty terrible, you still have 13 HCP and 4-card support, I think that stopping below game vulnerable at IMPs is quite bad.

[Codo]

I saw codo and pirate22 hint that they might be willing to stop below game.

Han, I agree with your ideas about 4 Spade and I agree that this hand is a game force.

Stopping below game is surely wrong , I wonder how you read this into my comment.

[hanp]

It doesn't matter. Apparently I misunderstood your comment, I am relieved that you wouldn't stop below game.

[the hog]

Roland, any hand where partner thinks you really have a C suit. This is particularly valid where you are bidding tight games. let me ask you this, what is a better holding opposite the responding hand, K? or x of clubs with the corresponding values elswhere?

[helene_t]

Is 2NT forcing? Do we play some other forcing raise, say Bergen?

 

My first impulse was 2♦ which is where I want p to have strength but thinking more about it it's silly, if p has ♦AJ(x) it is not as good as he thinks and if he has four diamonds he will raise and it becomes a mess.

 

I am convinced by Han's 4♠ bid. Even opposite a good p I think it's as good as anything.

 

Whatever I do I don't expect p to alert it.

 

Yeah, J2NT is part of SAYC and it's ridiculous not to alert it, especially playing online.

[Codo]

Roland, any hand where partner thinks you really have a C suit. This is particularly valid where you are bidding tight games. let me ask you this, what is a better holding opposite the responding hand, K? or x of clubs with the corresponding values elswhere?

Ron, thanks for you known statement, but can you construct hands where it really matters opposite our hand?

I cannot and I doubt you can.

[hrothgar]

Comment 1:  Jacoby 2NT has always been part of SAYC.

I think you are wrong.

The following URL provides a copy of SAYC circa 1988

 

http://home.earthlink.net/~ironhawker/sayc.htm

 

(This is the earliest version of the booklet that I have been able to find. I seem to recall that J2NT was part of earlier versions as well)

 

Jacoby 2NT is listed under the response structure to 1M openings. The precise quote is

 

2NT = Game-forcing raise ("Jacoby 2NT"), 13+ dummy points.

          Asks opener to show a short suit to help responder

          evaluate slam prospects.

[bid_em_up]

viewing all the replies-----no one has mentioed L.T.C even if J 2n/t employed,but writer stated no J 2n/t  then 3 spades is the answer, if opener is minimum,he can pass--or if he fancies, because of distribution, he bids 4 spades no sweat,i would not want to bid 4 spades and murder him--- having said that if J 2n/t employed then i bid 2n/t   regards

Huh?

 

It appears to me that you are saying:

 

If I am not playing Jacoby 2N, then I do not consider this hand to be worth a game forcing bid and will not commit to game and instead will make a bid that partner can pass, but if I AM playing Jacoby 2N, then I will force to game.

 

Am I reading this right?

 

If I am reading it correctly, then this approach is quite silly, er, sub-par (imo).

 

The hand is either worth committing to game or it is not. If you consider it to be a game force when playing J2N, then it is a game force even when J2N is not available.

 

Manufacture another forcing bid and then bid 4♠ if you have to, but you absolutely should not make a non-forcing bid (such as 3♠) that can be passed when you evaluate this hand as belonging in game if you are playing another method.

 

If I have misread what you said, then feel free to disregard the above.

 

On the given cards, I will bid 2♥ (forcing one round in SAYC iirc, not alertable) and see how the auction progresses but will not stop short of 4♠.

 

Edit: I suppose I should've said that I will not stop short of game as it is possible there are other games available.

[nigel_k]

In what hand exactly is it a problem if he overvalues a KX of club?

Can you give me one example where we would reach 4 spade instead of 3 Spade because he overvalued this card?

Or where we reach 6 instead of 4 and this is bad?

Partner is always going to evaluate better if you bid a suit you have instead of one you don't have. When you bid 2♣ then support spades you are probably going to get too high on the first hand and stop too low on the second one.

 

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[P_Marlowe]

Comment 1:  Jacoby 2NT has always been part of SAYC.

I think you are wrong.

The following URL provides a copy of SAYC circa 1988

 

http://home.earthlink.net/~ironhawker/sayc.htm

 

(This is the earliest version of the booklet that I have been able to find. I seem to recall that J2NT was part of earlier versions as well)

 

Jacoby 2NT is listed under the response structure to 1M openings. The precise quote is

 

2NT = Game-forcing raise ("Jacoby 2NT"), 13+ dummy points.

          Asks opener to show a short suit to help responder

          evaluate slam prospects.

Ok, I will try to remember this.

 

I am pretty sure, I did not know this before, so I learned at least 1 thing today,

not sure, it is of any use, but it may serve me at least here on BBF.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe