And now......?

[Hilver]

♣You hold sitting West:

♠ A K 10

♥ A 7

♦ K Q 10 8 6 4

♣ A 10

 

You play a Precsionstyle Big Club.

 

The bidding

West    North   East   South

1♣*     4♥          5♥     pass

?

 

1♣ = 16+ HCP, strong balanced (20+ HCP) or any 16+ unbalanced hand.

 

Your bid please and most of all why?

 

Made a mistake in using card symbols in the poll. The options are:

5NT

6♦

6NT

7♦

7NT

 

Thx

 

Jan

[JLOGIC]

6H followed by 7D, hopefully this doesnt overstate my diamonds and allows us to get back to spades if partner is like 6016 or something (whereas he should pass a jump to 7D).

[mgoetze]

So, partner rates to have a heart void and our ♥A is less valuable than, say, a ♣K would be. Then again, what does partner have? A source of tricks? If so, do we have 13? Tough to find out.

 

Matchpoints/IMPs and strength of field/opposition are kind of important factors for this decision, I feel.

[hanp]

Seems clear to force to 7D but give partner the option of converting to 7S. Maybe Justin is right in that 6H does this best, I thought about 5NT first.

[JLOGIC]

Seems clear to force to 7D but give partner the option of converting to 7S. Maybe Justin is right in that 6H does this best, I thought about 5NT first.

Yes, I don't know why but 5N-6C-7D sounds much more interested for partner to correct to spades than 6H-6S/7C-7D. Like if I had 5 spades and 7 diamonds I would bid 5N. Maybe 5N just sounds like "2 places to play" where 6H then 7D sounds more like "I want to play diamonds but I tolerate spades and don't just have 9 solid diamonds" to me. Obv I don't have any actual agreements on this auction, so it just matters how you think about the situation, since you have other options like 5N then 6H then 7D available which I don't know wtf that is heh.