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Is partner allowed to rebid hearts when we could be 0-3 in the majors when he is 6-5, and when we have equal length in the majors we will convert?

 

Sorry, I'm so used to my artificial follow up to 1-1NT.

 

My point is; with a distributional hand, partner is allowed to stretch for game.

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he is either 6-4 with very good spades, or any 7+-4 that is worth a force to game. In practice he would probably not offer hearts if 8-4 I think, unless his spades were pretty bad.

 

e.g. KQJT9x AQJx Ax x would be enough IMO. Or KQT9xxx AQJx A x.

 

I think that you should probably consider a slam move. My 3h bids tend to be quite heavy. But I am not sure that you should actually make one. I think i am worth a try tbh, but its not at all clear to me what i should do. should 5c be values here? or ace showing, or first and second equally? Might partner misunderstand 5h as natural? The uncertainty means I would not make one even though I might be worth one.

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Partner will usually have a 6+4 shape so AK rates to be very useful. 5 should be cuebid for without control in the minors, there seems to be no point in converting to a 4-3 fit (at best), even with a void in . Sign me up for 5. Hopefully partner didn't jump shift on a good hand with AQJ or so, then this could be bad.
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Is partner allowed to rebid hearts when we could be 0-3 in the majors when he is 6-5, and when we have equal length in the majors we will convert?

 

But getting forced in 4 when responder has a more likely 1-2 or possibly 2-3?

In general as responder I would rarely rebid 3NT with 3 cards in and almost never with 0-3.

 

Rainer Herrmann

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Partner will usually have a 6+4 shape so AK rates to be very useful. 5 should be cuebid for without control in the minors, there seems to be no point in converting to a 4-3 fit (at best), even with a void in . Sign me up for 5.

 

Yeh, this requires trust. Would try 5H with reg pard or (other)top-notch pard. I can't think of any J.S. to 3H which doesn't have some minor suit controls. He only has 13 points possible in his allegedly 6-4 major suits.

 

Edited to add the word "other" in parentheses before she kicked my butt

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