rhm Posted April 23, 2016 Report Share Posted April 23, 2016 If you play a 1♠ rebid as an unbalanced hand, don't bid it here.Sure, but the issue is whether such an agreement is good for your own health.This is worth arguing, but as usual people tend to be dogmatic. A principle of good constructive bidding is that cheap bids can encompass a wide range of hands, while expensive bids should be specific. Guaranteeing that 1♠ shows an unbalanced hand is nice when it crops up, but will often miss a much better spade partial and as here wrong-sides notrumps.My 1NT rebid does not deny four spades, but if I bypass spades I must have a positional stopper in the other unbid suit.If my agreements forced me to bid 1NT bypassing a spade suit with no stopper in the unbid suit I would change my agreements. There is plenty of room after 1♠ for responder to find out, if he needs to, whether opener is unbalanced or not. Rainer Herrmann 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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