Cue Bid Response to TO Double

[biggerclub]

Invitational with both minors is the small loss you take if you play the major suit cue as GF. In that case you just have to suck it up and jump to 3 of a minor. Obviously the cue is better on these hands if you have it available, so that you play in the correct minor when this is the limit of the hand.

 

I feel like P should be able to work out that 3c is weak, not strong (because so many other strong bids are available -- 3H, 3N, any 4-level bid). In fact, I see nothing left for 3c but pretty much exactly what I held. Just naturally but it does require partner to think about what else I might have bid. At matchpoints, and lacking Lebensohl or other sign-off relay systems, the bid screams weakness to me. It just seems to have to mean exactly what I held -- invitational values, not 4s, no preference in minors and worried that 2N will be down if P has only a single stop.

 

When I said P is more experienced than that . . . what I meant was that she is capable of thinking about what bids mean in light of what was not bid, but might have been. Whether that sort of thinking is what you would call intermediate . . . IDK.