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Minor Suit Bidding Problem


awm

  

21 members have voted

  1. 1. Do you agree with the 2H bid?

    • Yes
      16
    • No
      5
  2. 2. Would 4C now be forcing?

    • Yes, 3S created a game force
      10
    • No, 3S might just be competitive
      0
    • No, 3S was a game try and 4C declines
      11
  3. 3. What is your call?

    • 3NT
      2
    • 4C
      7
    • 4H
      8
    • 4NT
      0
    • 5C
      4
    • Something Else
      0


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Partner deals, all NV at IMP scoring.

 

83 A JT965 AT875

 

Playing 2/1 with an expert partner; you've had some discussion but none that is particularly relevant to this auction beyond that an immediate 3 would've been preemptive:

 

1 - 1 - 2 - 3

3 - Pass - ???

 

What's going on, and what's your call?

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Partner is showing at least a spade feature and is forcing an intelligent call. 3NT seems intelligent to me.

 

3NT doesn't seem very intelligent to me. If partner's 3S call has as little as AKxx xxx x KQxxx he'd have no real reason not to pass 3NT on that

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3NT doesn't seem very intelligent to me. If partner's 3S call has as little as AKxx xxx x KQxxx he'd have no real reason not to pass 3NT on that

This is not what I would bid 3S with, or pass. If he can count and think, he knows that I have 5 clubs and the stiff heart Ace, which is what I have. That's not a 3NT hand.

 

If ha instead had something like AKxx xxc AKx Kxx or Kxx Kxx AKx KQxx, he would pass.

 

partner knows we are not no trump oriented because we cuebid and because he is known to be looking at three hearts.

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I think 3S is very likely to be a hand like the ones Frances posted, a 4-3-1-5 or 4-3-2-4 with xxx in hearts, offering a second place to play since partner was unable to bid 3NT himself.

 

I do think 3S is forcing, too - if 2H didnt already set up a GF it came very close to it- and I will just go for a nice quiet 5C.4C would sound slammish.

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