No stop

[the hog]

This has an easy solution: change your partner to someone who has studied bridge during this century.

 

Or reinvent yourself.

[the hog]

OK, I don't have any pros. :)

 

Partner will play me for a min opener with some spade wastage, misbid, sell out and/or misdefend vs. any more bidding or 1nt ends the auction AND is the right spot.

 

A 2♦ bid is off by 1 crummy spot that pard can read as a possibility of "none of the above" and not being adverse to playing a moyse, a 2♣ bid either gets a preference back to diamonds or has some play.

 

I make 1nt at least a 3 to 1 parlay.

 

Could you please post this in English. I have no idea what you are saying except that you don't like 1NT, a bid that shows your balanced nature and defines your strength.

[gnasher]

Simply put: 1NT is a bad bid. It may be that all other actions are even worse and that 1NT is the least of evils.

If our partnership agreement is that 1NT shows any balanced hand in the 12-14 range, how can 1NT be a bad bid? You may consider it to be a bad agreement, but that's rather different from being an bad bid.

 

But you cannot tell me that you are going to be proud when you bid 1NT, LHO bids 3♠, and partner bids 3NT when they cash the first 5 tricks.

That doesn't seem a terribly likely scenario, because he didn't bid 3♠ on the first round. If it does go like that partner should double to ask for a spade stop. Doesn't everyone play that?

[karlson]

[That doesn't seem a terribly likely scenario, because he didn't bid 3♠ on the first round. If it does go like that partner should double to ask for a spade stop. Doesn't everyone play that?

 

Aside from the unlikeliness of the 3♠ bid, what kind of hand would partner bid 3n on? Seems like balanced GF hands should just double in that position almost regardless of what double means. I guess he might have some x46x shape, but this whole scenario is getting more and more unlikely.

[ggwhiz]

So cuebids spades to ask for a stopper and may have to do it at the 3 level and you????

 

I can't think of any further auction that isn't groping in the dark except float.

[Trinidad]

That doesn't seem a terribly likely scenario, because he didn't bid 3♠ on the first round. If it does go like that partner should double to ask for a spade stop.

You are right. This is the second time in this discussion that I have the auction wrong in my mind (though it is not the most complicated auction ever). I think I will go and eat a deck of cards...

 

Rik