How to handle strong minor 1-suiter

[xx1943]

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Playing 2/1.

What is your opening?[/hv]

 

 

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What is your rebid if partner responds 1♥ to your 1♣ opening?

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[kuhchung]

oh i miscounted, never mind

 

welcome to the BWHoD

[whereagles]

I would open 2♣. Don't anticipate any rebid problems (bid clubs, followed by NT) and I got 8 playing tricks.

 

 

No-brainer to me, but I'm sure there will be a lot of people disagreeing :)

[wank]

i have 8 solid tricks with potential for more and a fairly balanced hand. that's called a 2♣ opener.

[lexlogan]

I open 1♣ and rebid 3NT over any one-level response (with silent opps.) While it's easy to construct hands where 3NT goes down opposite a valid 1 ♥ response or makes opposite a valid pass, I think it is clear that 3NT is likely to make if partner has a minimum response and likely to fail if partner does not.

[Vampyr]

It's nice to have a gadget for this sort of hand.

[Cthulhu D]

I have a gadget for this sort of hand as well.

[boosterbbh]

I have a problem with bidding 3nt after a 1c opening. I might not be able to make because of the diamond suit. Besides, hearts might be the right contract. I have 8 tricks, therefore I open 2nt (and not 2c). Partner can transfer or even pass with an empty hand.

If that doesn't happen I guess I just have to take the risk

[helene_t]

As much as I hate faking a major or faking a reverse on a small doubleton, this could be the hand for it.

 

With an appropriate structure I think I would open 2♣ but playing the normal omnibus 2♣ I open 1♣ and rebid 2♦. Playing with a partner who responds strictly up the line I think I prefer a 4♣ rebid, though.

[whereagles]

I don't think rebidding 4♣ is a good idea, helene. It bypasses your most likely game.

[ahydra]

My partner and I use a 3NT rebid for this kind of hand. (Of course, this would be the hand where opps cash the first 5 diamond tricks :/) With 5 losers it's not quite strong enough for 2C by our standards.

 

ahydra

[44577]

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Playing 2/1.

What is your opening?[/hv]

 

 

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What is your rebid if partner responds 1♥ to your 1♣ opening?

[/hv]

While 1♣ opening seems better than 2♣, there are too many options for rebid. Direct 3nt and 4♥ possibilities, and the more coutious 3♣ and 3♥ are ok.

[wank]

While 1♣ opening seems better than 2♣, there are too many options for rebid. Direct 3nt and 4♥ possibilities, and the more coutious 3♣ and 3♥ are ok.

 

oh dear. 3H/3C/4H would be terrible. 3NT is better, i.e. only poor and lazy.

 

if you do a Walter the Walrus and open this at the 1-level, you unsurprisingly leave yourself without a good rebid. Still you have to make the best of a bad job, which is obviously 2 diamonds. 1C-1H-3NT is a sequence for people whose idea of a partnership is a DVD, a dark room and a box of tissues.

[WesleyC]

If I didn't have a gadget to describe this hand after 1C - 1H, I would open 2NT.

[frank fl]

2♠

To force and find out what further partner can tell me, and confident can always rebid clubs.

My answer might be different with a Robot partner.

[mike777]

1c expecting to rebid 3nt.

 

This is known as the Bridge World death hand and been discussed forever. :)

 

typical problem hand without gadgets which I don't have

 

don't like 2c here.

 

"The Bridge World magazine has

a feature called the Master Solvers'

Club. Problems similar to this one

have appeared there, and a hand

that falls in that genre is referred to

as the Bridge World Death Hand."

 

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expect a typical pard to bypass d and bid 1h with:

 

xxxx...xxxx...Axxxx....void

or

xxxx...xxxxx....Axxx....void

 

:)

[ruleof15]

I would open 1♣and hope lefty overcalled 1♦ and my partner passed so I could WQ a 3♦ bid.This hand is a perfect one to show the players who bypass a 4-card ♦ suit to bid a 4-card major. S if lefty didn't o'call then I would bid 3♣ which in my system indicates no losers and a 6+card suit.

[dave_beer]

I open 2♣ intending to rebid 2NT over a negative response. Opening 2♣ and rebidding 3♣ requires a slightly better hand.

 

Having opened 1♣ and gotten a 1♥ response I am forced to make some least of evils choice:

3

♣

: underbid as I would do this without one of the major suit aces

3NT - OK on playing strength but no semblance of

♦

stopper and

♥

support too good (this usually has shortness in

♥

)

2

♦

- would leave me worrying about who has

♦

stopped for NT purposes

2

♠

- could easily get me into trouble if partner raises and I don't have an agreement about immediate removal from

♠

showing I don't really have them.

 

Some people have a gadget for this hand. I have seen 3♦ mentioned but have no details as to follow-ups.

 

Failing that I rebid 2♠ and hope to survive. I don't like jump-shifting in non-suits which is why I chose to open 2♣.

[Flem72]

I like playing 1X-1Y/1M and 1D-1M/2C as forcing1. Helps.

[Vampyr]

oh dear. 3H/3C/4H would be terrible. 3NT is better, i.e. only poor and lazy.

 

if you do a Walter the Walrus and open this at the 1-level, you unsurprisingly leave yourself without a good rebid. Still you have to make the best of a bad job, which is obviously 2 diamonds. 1C-1H-3NT is a sequence for people whose idea of a partnership is a DVD, a dark room and a box of tissues.

 

But most don't come out and say it. I think you're very brave.

[helene_t]

But most don't come out and say it. I think you're very brave.

Ha-ha I was trying to predict your response to that post but I failed.

[iandayre]

I would choose 2NT, 1C a reasonable second choice.

 

If 1C is the opening bid I would have to manufacture a reverse to 2D over a 1H response.