What to bid over pd transfer?

[aguahombre]

At MPs, I would bid 3♠, but at IMPs (and this is IMPs) I would make sure we get to 4♠.

 

Rik

non vul at IMP pairs, to be exact; I believe that makes it pretty much like a MP decision to do better than the field.

[WesleyC]

This hand is an extremely obvious super-accept.

 

In a pickup partnership I'd try 4C but without agreements anything other than 3S is fine.

[phoenix214]

A pretty interesting discussion:

In real life partner had -

♠:QT6432

♥:T7

♦:K8

♣:A92

Intending to try for 6S. The problem as it is. If the hand is played by the 2NT opener, then 6♠ is good, if diamond ace is one-side or if no diamond lead.

If the spade hand plays then 6♠ is basically cold. I was mostly curious if somebody would find this as a problem or not. As the cards were, diamond ace was off-side, and we had a diamond lead(Although we finished up in 4♠) we still lost lots of imps because for most tables the auction starts 1♣-1♠, and now they have right-sided their slam.

[1eyedjack]

Haha it would not have helped me. In most strong club partnerships I play 1H response to 1C as a transfer to spades.

[KurtGodel]

I think we can eliminate 3♠ immediately, partner can put down a balanced yarborough and game will have play. E.g. partner has xxxxx xxx xx xxx and game is still Q♠ coming down and A♣ onside, yes this isn't great but it's still about 25%. Shuffle a card xxxxx xxx x xxxx and suddenly game is now either Q♠ coming down or A♣ onside, which is pretty good. Giving a sixth spade et cetera are all ways to make game better than 50%

 

In terms of super accepting: I don't really want to bid diamonds as partner might think something like Qx is useful, but the holding we really want them to have is x. 3NT has the big advantage of hearing 4♣, over which we can bid 4♥ - showing our lack of diamond control, now if partner has the diamond king they can right side, and they will feel very good about a diamond stiff. Over 4♦, you can still try 4♥. I'm sure if P has ♦AK and ♠Q they will bid 5♦, if they take control with key card we are also happy.