what will you bid?how about 6S?

[yin970902]

what will you want to bid?

Pass?

Double?

6♠?

7♠?

why?

what does partner's 5♠ mean?

can I bid 6H?

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[jillybean]

Double, partner's 5♠ means "I think we can make 5♠"

[inquiry]

Double. No other alternative.

 

About 5♠'s, we bid 4♠ vulnerable versus non-vul (and presumably after a preemptive 3♦ bid). So we wanted to be in game. This should establish a forcing pass situation if they bid at the five level white over our vulnerable game.

 

If partner wanted to invite slam, he has a couple ways to do it over five diamonds. The strongest is to pass 5♦ and then bid over your double (if you double). Even then, pass by him and then bidding 5♥ is stronger than pass then bid 5♠.

 

I can see no reason to get excited by partner bidding an immediate 5♠, so I certainly will not bid 6♠. Also, I will not pass, as that is encouraging partner to bid 6♠, and not only do I not want to bid 6♠, I don't want to encourage partner to bid 6♠ by using a forcing pass over 6♦.

[gnasher]

Double, partner's 5♠ means "I think we can make 5♠"

Partner will rarely be that certain about anything. When you bid 5 over 5 you often don't know who is making what - you just do it because you have a lot of defence and not much defence, and find out afterwards whether you were making, saving, or wrong.