the big hand generation frenzy

[gwnn]

Saw this one on vugraph today (Hungary national championships (I think))

 

2♥*-3♣**

3♦-4♥

 

*-hearts+minor (I think 5-5 guaranteed)

**-p/c

 

1. What does (should) responder have?

2. What did responder have?

3. If you answer, please specify which question you're answering.

[PhantomSac]

xxx KQ AKxx xxxx.

 

Answering what partner "should" have, I don't know the players so I assume what they should and do have are similar.

 

More generally, partner has a strong doubleton heart and very good diamonds, enough to make game playable opposite hearts + diamonds. On the other hand his clubs are very poor, and if partner has clubs we don't want to go beyond partscore.

 

For instance xx AJTxx Qxxxx x is a very good 4H, but xx AJTxx x Qxxxx does not want to go beyond a partscore.

[Siegmund]

If we have no special agreements about this sequence, my stab at it is similar to Justin's, except that I'd expect minor honours in diamonds and aces-and-spaces outside, and think there's room for more variety in the other suits (5th diamond or only 3 of a black suit.)

 

Conceivably they could have an agreement that this is a cuebid in support of diamonds, in which case the 2nd heart might also be missing.