Action after oppo bid 2D weak

[Phil]

I've never made a leaping Michaels call with a 4-5, but I did it once with a 4♠-6♦, over 2♥ which worked out very poorly. Pard took the Moysian preference to 4M with 3-3 in my suits so 5m would have made but 4♠ was terrible as the hand got tapped immediately.

 

I still like x.

[pirate22]

No one has a system-----------But one has to take action-No one has said PASS over 2d and await developements so x is 2/3/4 best

I rest our case

[Jlall]

2NT is just an underbid and is therefore clearly inferior to 3NT imo, I don't really understand why one would bid 2NT.

2N gives partner room for stayman/smolen/transfers so it makes it much more likely to find a spade fit.

 

On the other hand, 2N seems like a misbid with a void in a major suit and you're gonna hear texas in hearts a lot imo.

[ONEferBRID]

But then he suggested something no one has advocated - 4♣, showing 5-5 in clubs and a Major. Overstates the spades, of course, but at least it gets across that this is a 2-suited hand. Means we won't be able to play 3NT, but it's not going to be easy to get to 3NT, and will be pretty impossible to get there and know it's right.

You still have a 3NT option available using a modified Roman-Jump over a weak-2D open when you want to show a specific Major and Cl -- big 2-suiter :

 

??

3D! = stop-ask for 3NT

3H-jump! = Hts and Cl ( partner can still bid 3NT )

3S-jump! = Sp and Cl ( " )

4D!-jump = both Majors

[thebiker]

Here is the hand opposite the problem hand

 

2D ? P ??

 

♠QXX

♥987XXX

♦X

♣TXX

 

Both auctions started with a double

Both tables ended up in 4H -4 . -200 at one table, -1100 at another

 

3NT would not make once defence worked out to switch to hearts

 

Spades were 5-1 with a singleton J in the 2D hand

 

Thank you all for your suggestions/theories - A very difficult hand not just for the players at the table, but many others at their keyboards

 

the biker

 

Brian Keable

[rbforster]

3♣ - going plus :D

[gwnn]

++++ woo hoo

 

nah x should also go + btw

[P_Marlowe]

X, followed by a club bid.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

[Phil]

Seems:

 

(2♦) - x - (p) - 2♥'

 

 

then:

 

3♣ - 3♥

3♠ - 4♣

(pass?)

 

is a reasonable auction.

[jjbrr]

agree.

[gwnn]

I think partner has to pass 3♣, it looks like his hand is a great dummy.