awm Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Playing 2/1 (basically Lawrence style), how do you take the auction 1♠-2♦-2♥-3NT? It seems standard that this shows about 15-17 hcp, with weaker or stronger hands instead bidding 2NT. But how many spades will responder have here? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manudude03 Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 For me, it's nearly always 2, but might be 1 with a 1354 shape with a poor club suit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Venom Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 The corollary question here is what should opener do over 3NT holding an intermediate (14+-17) 6-4 hand with 6 spades: bid 4S completing his/her pattern risking finding responder with 1 (or, omg, 0) spades, or just passing 3NT. This is one problem that arises from not having a natural 2NT ressponse available to help describe yet limit responder's hand. DHL/ DON aka Double ! The Devil made me do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bucky Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Since 3NT takes so much room, I want it narrowly defined in both shape and strength. 2-3-5-3 shape and 15-17 HCP for me. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dustinst22 Posted October 29, 2010 Report Share Posted October 29, 2010 Since 3NT takes so much room, I want it narrowly defined in both shape and strength. 2-3-5-3 shape and 15-17 HCP for me. Agreed. If responder has a tough distribution like 1-3-5-4, then I'd prefer 2NT. In fact I think that's what Lawrence recommends with that distribution. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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