The Misadventures of Rex and Jay--#5743

[gwnn]

oh nvm

[kayin801]

Well I generally hate opening 2C with primary diamonds, but this is a hand that I'll make an exception on.

 

1) 1D 1 banana 3D is not forcing

2) 1D 1 banana 3C is an aberration

3) 1D 1 banana 4D shows 4 card banana support

4) 1D 1 banana 3NT shows a solid diamond suit. Besides which, this has too much slam potential for this bid.

 

Now I'm hungry.

 

(1♦ :)... 3♣ :()

[rhm]

[hv=pc=n&s=sj5432hqj32d4cqt2]133|100[/hv]

 

Note that 3NT is by far the best game.

 

Maybe opening 2♣ is the right way of handling such hands after all.

 

In my mind the bidding should go

 

2♣--2♦

3♦--3NT

 

If you open 1♦ and jump to 3♣ I do not see how you are going to pass 3NT. (You could play a grand in 3NT or more likely 3NT could be down when 6 ♦ is lay-down)

Some have exalted requirements for opening 2♣ and do not see the cost this entails, when very strong hands ("only 9 playing tricks") are opened at the one level.

I for my part do not need a 2 ♣ opening bid when I have 13 playing tricks.

The problem hands for a 2♣ opening are two suited hands (vulnerable to preempts) and strong three suited hands, where you would preempt yourself with a 2♣ opening.

One suited hands are just fine for a 2♣ opening.

 

Rainer Herrmann

[gwnn]

Finally an rhm post on bidding I fully agree with!