How many NT's?

[Hanoi5]

♠Tx

♥Q9876

♦KQT

♣AQ9

 

1♣-1♥

2NT-3♣

3♠-???

 

Partner holds 4 spades, not three hearts and a balanced 18-19 HCP's hand, how many NT's do you bid?

[PhilKing]

3NT. Anything more is a rookie error.

[masse24]

3NT

[Fluffy]

foreseeing 1 loser in each major is not so hard.

[Free]

3NT. I don't see an easy way to 12 tricks unless partner has ♥AK, in which case he'll bid 4♥ on the next round. Even in that case you'd need ♥3-3 which isn't likely enough.

[aguahombre]

Partner holds 4 spades, not three hearts and a balanced 18-19 HCP's hand, how many NT's do you bid?

Yep, a mere 3NT seems right under those conditions. With a different set of agreements where 2NT already denied four spades, and where Opener's 3S denied three hearts and denied a diamond control ---we might be looking at (say) AKX AK JXX KJXXX and would be getting excited enough to probe further (knowing her 18/19 points must be somewhere).

[Cyberyeti]

3NT. I don't see an easy way to 12 tricks unless partner has ♥AK, in which case he'll bid 4♥ on the next round. Even in that case you'd need ♥3-3 which isn't likely enough.

Partner looks to be 4234 most of the time, if so he needs something odd for you to have a chance, and that chance will usually be a 3-3 heart break or possibly 10x, AKxx, KJ, Axx, Kxxx for example.

 

3N is probably enough.

[MrAce]

This would be a tuffer situation, had pd responsed 3♦ or 3NT over 3♣ (if this is some sort of check back) showing 3235 2245 (assuming you play 5533)

 

Over 3♠ i think you do not have this issue.

[gszes]

lets look for miracle hands give partner AKxx KJ Axx KJxx theres 19 of the

finest and most perfect we can possibly imagine and 6n is still wanting.

 

needing 33 hearts or Tx or T still well short of 50% and that's being able to

pick the cards out of the deck for p to hold. Sometimes bidding is just as

simple as that looking for miracles and noting that even then we can't make

what we want. In this case settle for

 

 

 

3n.

[Cyberyeti]

lets look for miracle hands give partner AKxx KJ Axx KJxx theres 19 of the

finest and most perfect we can possibly imagine and 6n is still wanting.

 

needing 33 hearts or Tx or T still well short of 50% and that's being able to

pick the cards out of the deck for p to hold. Sometimes bidding is just as

simple as that looking for miracles and noting that even then we can't make

what we want. In this case settle for

 

 

 

3n.

 

I think the best it gets is AKxx, AJ, Axx, Kxxx, now hearts 3-3, Kx/stiff K onside, 10x/stiff 10/K10 either side will do.