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Continuations after 2C - 2D - 3D


Lord Molyb

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What is your call, and what would 4 mean here?

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Copying only so I can allow full description of 3 to show.

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What is your call, and what would 4 mean here?

3; West could be something like 3451 and I don't want to lose the potential heart fit. 4 should deny a four-card major and deny the ability to go directly to RKC(D). I think this is the auction where WestGIB will always raise 4 to 5 and will always raise 5 to 6.

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No doubt the best call is a splinter bid of 4S. Probably not available with GIB. There is nothing wrong with 4D certainly. It would be nice to see GIB rebid after that call with a few example hands. Probably though with GIB Blackwood is your best bet. I am going to forget about Hearts. If I bid 3H GIB certainly might raise with 3 and it will be tough to get back to Diamonds when it is best.
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I think 4 is pretty clear if it is defined as splinter. I don't care about heart fit so much when I'm this strong. Otherwise 4 ought to be fine.

 

GIB's continuations after 2c-2d-3m are pretty screwed up. I think it was using 3M bids artificially at one point? I *don't* think 3M should be 4 cards only. I think it's far too important to be able to find 5-3/6-3 major fits, that 3M should show 5+ cards, and it's way too hard to bid these when 3M only shows 4 (partner's going to have 4 cd support incredibly rarely, what do you do after the inevitable 3nt?), and that 5-3 fits are a lot more common than 4-4 in this situation (takes really strong hand to justify 3d on 3451 type shape, many should arguably be opened 1, and a decent chunk of these may have some stiff club honor and justify treating hand as balanced to find major fit).

 

If GIB wants to find 4-4 fits when opener has 4cd major and longer diamonds, it should use the 2c-2d-3M = 4cd M 5+(usu 6+) diamond treatment.

Over 2c-2d-3c, 3d should be ambiguously defined to look for the potential 4-4 major fits.

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This is what GIB thinks: [hv=bbo=y&lin=pn|~~M88339c0,autks,~~M6414hxk,goldiesan|st%7C%7Cmd%7C2STH67TKD25TJC36JA%2CS6789H3JD48QC24TQ%2CS5JKAHAD679KAC59K%2C%7Crh%7C%7Cah%7CBoard%204%7Csv%7Cb%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7C2C%7Can%7CStrong%20two%20club%20--%2019%2B%20HCP%3B%2023%2B%20total%20points%3B%20forcing%20to%202N%20%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7C2D%7Can%7C2D%20bid%20waiting%20--%20forcing%20to%202N%20%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7C3D%7Can%7COpener%5C%27s%20suit%20--%205%2B%20%21D%3B%2019%2B%20HCP%3B%2023%2B%20total%20points%20%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7C3H%7Can%7C4%2B%20%21H%3B%205%2B%20total%20points%3B%20forcing%20to%203N%20%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7C3S%7Can%7C5%2B%20%21D%3B%204%2B%20%21S%3B%2019%2B%20HCP%3B%2023%2B%20total%20points%3B%20forcing%20%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7C6D%7Can%7C3%2B%20%21D%3B%204%2B%20%21H%3B%209%2B%20total%20points%20%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cmb%7Cp%7Cpc%7CHJ%7Cpc%7CHA%7Cpc%7CH2%7Cpc%7CH6%7Cpc%7CDA%7Cpc%7CD3%7Cpc%7CD5%7Cpc%7CD8%7Cpc%7CC5%7Cpc%7CC8%7Cpc%7CCA%7Cpc%7CC2%7Cpc%7CDJ%7Cpc%7CD4%7Cpc%7CD9%7Cpc%7CH4%7Cpc%7CST%7Cpc%7CS6%7Cpc%7CSA%7Cpc%7CS2%7Cpc%7CS5%7Cpc%7CSQ%7Cpc%7CDT%7Cpc%7CS7%7Cpc%7CC3%7Cpc%7CCT%7Cpc%7CCK%7Cpc%7CC7%7Cpc%7CSK%7Cpc%7CS3%7Cpc%7CC6%7Cpc%7CS8%7Cpc%7CSJ%7Cpc%7CS4%7Cpc%7CCJ%7Cpc%7CS9%7Cpc%7CC9%7Cpc%7CH5%7Cpc%7CD2%7Cpc%7CC4%7Cpc%7CH7%7Cpc%7CH3%7Cpc%7CD7%7Cpc%7CH8%7Cpc%7CDK%7Cpc%7CH9%7Cpc%7CHT%7Cpc%7CDQ%7Cpc%7CD6%7Cpc%7CHQ%7Cpc%7CHK%7Cpc%7CCQ%7C]420|270[/hv]
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What was the description of 4?

 

Edit: Oh. Probably not right to make a bid that previews as "3-5 total points".

 

It didn't say 3-5 total points when I previewed it...

 

Really? Then this is a bigger problem than simply this one auction and should be investigated by the programmers. It should never be the case that a previewed explanation is different than the one posted after the previewed bid is made.

 

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