your call?

[mike777]

Imps. Unfav Vul.

 

 

(1d)=p=(1s)=?

 

Your hand is:

 

J5....AQ9853...7...AJT9

[P_Marlowe]

2H.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

[Quantumcat]

To come in when they have both made a bid, you need to think about the following:

1. Am I giving them a better score than they might otherwise get? (e.g. 500 against their game, or just a positive score if their contract was going to go down)

2. Am I helping my side get to game if we have one?

 

In answer to 1. you have nothing defensive whatsoever, so you are probably not saving against something that they are not making. Also your suit is decent, so you won't be losing too many trump tricks. Your second suit is also one they have not bid. If you are going down, it would be quite unlucky if it were more than their contract. If partner raises, you would be unlikely to have more than one trump loser (e.g. he might have Jxx).

 

In answer to 2. if we have a game on partner will probably know it, since he will value club cards and devalue cards in their suits. (if you have cards in one of their suits, you might WANT him to have high cards in that suit, which would mean partner may not know it if you have a game. Not the case here).

 

Even if dummy has only, say, a doubleton heart and the club queen, you have a half-decent chance of making 2♥. The king of hearts may drop doubleton. If dummy has the ten of hearts you can have a go at dropping the doubleton jack, too. And this is with them having 27 HCP between them!

 

There is therefore not one single downside to bidding 2♥!

[mike777]

ok they(2h) were minus 1100....but thanks for all the feedback..

[han]

you have nothing defensive whatsoever

 

Is that what two aces go for these days?

 

2H is automatic btw.

[ggwhiz]

If you don't bid 2♥ on these colours with that hand, you are giving the opponents a license to steal.

 

Somebody (Eddie Kantar?) said that if you don't go for 1100 once in a while, you're not playing the game.