Balancing seat after 1NT

[Roupoil]

It's been a long time I'm lurking in these forums, maybe it's time I start posting hands (or maybe not, we'll see...) :

 

 

[hv=d=w&v=n&s=skqhkj8xxxdkxxxxc]133|100|Scoring: IMP

(1NT) - -[/hv]

 

So, West opens a strong NT and it gently comes to you, what's your plan (feel free to use and explain your methods). Do you change your bid if I tell you it's a 32-board KO match, and you were down 38 IMPs after the first set of 16 deals (this is the 6th board of the second half and nothing spectacular happened yet, though you might have gained some 5 IMPs back) ?

[robertb]

I would bid 2 diamonds, showing diamonds and hearts; if partner corrects to hearts, I'll raise to 3.

[kgr]

DBL=♣ OR ♦&♥

[hanp]

I'd bid 2H, 5+ hearts and a 4+ minor.

[Fluffy]

I have double to show any minor-major 2 suiter, but I think I'd just bid 2♥.

 

 

needing for a swing 3♥ comes to mind.

[the hog]

2H for me. Shows 5H and 4m. If partner raises I bid 4.

[aguahombre]

Could show two suits, same color with double. But would rather just show the six-card heart suit; 2♥

[InTime]

Playing Multi Landy in all positions against a strong NT.

So in this instance I will bid as follows:

2D (Single suiter major) and after partner's 2H then bid 3D explaining my hand.

Regards

[Free]

2♥ showing 5+♥ and 4+m

[gwnn]

I would:

 

double showing 5-4 in a major and a minor, either way

or bid:

2♦ showing diamonds+hearts

or

2♥ showing hearts

or

2♥ showing hearts and a minor

[Roupoil]

Ok, so for all the 2!h bidders (whatever the exact meaning, the sequence will be the same ; for the others, I don't know...), you awaken everybody at the table :

 

1NT - - 2♥

3♣ 3♥ 4♣ ?

 

Just to check, what do you do now ?

[Siegmund]

I can't imagine anyone not continuing. The real question is what are we going to do when they bid 5C.

 

If 2H was ostensibly one-suited you might bid 4D rather than 4H now to help partner evaluate our chances at the 5-level. If 2H was hearts and a minor, partner already knows what minor.

 

I would very likely wind up taking the push to 5 on my own, if I had no way to involve partner in the decision. (I might easily regret it, too.) If I am lucky, opener will be the 5C bidder and I will at least get to see if partner wants to try to hit it before I commit myself.

[Roupoil]

Indeed, the question might be to choose what to do over 5C. In fact, I can't know for sure what opener would have done after 4H in the auction I gave in my earlier post (at the table, something more brutal occured very quickly). He may be tempted to double (which will of course be respected by his partner), and may try 5C, giving us the last guess. These were the hands :

 

[hv=d=w&v=n&n=stxxxh9xxdaqxcjxx&w=sjxxhaqdjxcaqtxxx&e=saxxxhtxdtxxckxxx&s=skqhkj8xxxdkxxxxc]399|300|Scoring: IMP[/hv]

 

At our table, South bid directly to 4H over 1NT. Insane ? Well, everybody looked at him suspiciously, but passed, and the very suitable dummy and layout meant +620.

 

Other table had also a very quick but not really spectacular auction : 1C P 1S 2H end of auction for a peaceful +170 but -10 IMPS for NS. Who's to blame for not reaching anything higher ?

[Fluffy]

1♣-ps-1♠ you bid 2NT vulnerable wich shows more or less this hand.

 

 

On the NT auction you posted you don't bid 4♥ over 4♣, you obviously bid 4♦

[Free]

Ok, so for all the 2!h bidders (whatever the exact meaning, the sequence will be the same ; for the others, I don't know...), you awaken everybody at the table :

 

1NT - - 2♥

3♣ 3♥ 4♣ ?

 

Just to check, what do you do now ?

I would probably bid 4♦. Passing is ridiculous, we underbid once, now it's time to push on.

 

Also read your next post, the blame at the other table is for not showing 2 suits when you can. With at least 5-5 you can easily bid 2NT or something similar. You can Dbl followed by bidding ♥ to show longer ♥,... Bidding 2♥ is just lazy.