Creeksider Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 Handviewer link I'd be interested in comments on how to bid this hand, which produced a good result but presented a dilemma on each bid. For the first bid I can show strength and diamond support by bidding 2♦, but this would deny a four-card major. I the first priority was to bid the strong 4-card heart suit. I can't jump shift (only 4 hearts) but 1♥ is forcing and I figure I'll have a chance to show strength and diamond support later. When North comes back with 1♠, though, I don't have a good bid in diamonds. I don't want to go straight to five as this may miss a slam, or straight to six as this may go down, and anything less than five would not be forcing. The only bid I can find that allows me to explore further without risk of partner passing is 2♣, fourth suit forcing. I still haven't shown diamond support but at least have shown strength. When partner comes back with 3♣, however, I'm at a loss for how to proceed. Partner still doesn't know I have diamonds, but I'm not sure I can make a forcing bid in that suit. Meanwhile I know nothing about the strength of partner's hand, which could be a minimum (should make game in diamonds but could go down in slam) or strong enough for six or even seven diamonds. I couldn't think of a way to keep the bidding going for further transfer of information and finally settled on Blackwood, knowing it would be misinterpreted as clubs, but hoping I'd be able to use the response to land in the correct contract: partner almost certainly has at least 1 keycard, so a response of 5♣ would suggest we're good for 7♦, a response of 5♦ would indicate we belong in that contract and I could pass, while I could bid 6♦ over any other response. I've intentionally misused Blackwood but in a way that gets the correct result. Was there a better way to bid this hand? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguahombre Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 (edited) With a human, you could have set trumps after your FSF 2C call, by bidding 3D. Have no idea whether a bot is cool with that :) You seem to have faked it the best you could. (improvised, overcame, adapted) Edited February 8, 2011 by aguahombre Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtvesuvius Posted February 8, 2011 Report Share Posted February 8, 2011 3♦ over 3♣ is natural and GF. 2♣ should set a GF, so there isn't any need to jump around. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creeksider Posted February 9, 2011 Author Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 VVV is right, I hadn't noticed that GIB's CC checks the box indicating 4SF is forcing to game, not just for one round. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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