[pclayton]

IMPs, short matches

LHO opens 1♠, pass, pass to you

Scoring: IMP

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Your call (and follow-up) please?

[awm]

Clearly one of those hands where almost anything could be right. I'll go with my usual (non-mainstream I know) style and bid my best suit. 2♣.

[JohnnyH7]

2C for me. Xing and bidding 2N or pass over 2D doesn't appeal.

[hrothgar]

1NT for me...

[mike777]

1NT

Tough hand

x is a very close second choice planning on passing 2D.

[han]

I voted for 1NT, 2C is the only other option imo and I have no problem with that.

[inquiry]

2♣ at imps (short match).

1NT at MP (higher scoring.. yes 2C making 3 scores higher than 1NT down one, but you get the idea).

[whereagles]

Dbl + 2H playing ELC.
Dbl + 3C otherwise.

[hrothgar]

whereagles, on Mar 23 2006, 12:28 AM, said:

Dbl + 2H playing ELC.
Dbl + 3C otherwise.

Sorry... Somewhat confused by your posting:

Are you advocating starting with a double and then correcting 2♦ to 3♣?

[toothbrush]

Partner has no long suit to bid, so i presume he has a balanced hand. RHO probably has short ♠ and long ♦.
I think 2♣ is the best bid because I don't think the bidding is over yet after this bid. And later I can still bid something to tell partner I'm really strong.

[luis]

I would bid 3♣ usually 13-15 with 5+ clubs.
It seems to be quite a good description of what I have.


Luis

[luke warm]

i'd bid 1nt

[hrothgar]

luis, on Mar 23 2006, 02:30 AM, said:

I would bid 3♣ usually 13-15 with 5+ clubs.
It seems to be quite a good description of what I have.


Luis

I'm skeptical that this suit is good enough for a direct seat overcall at the 2 level.
I might, on occasion, be forced to make such a bid, but I wouldn't be happy about it.

Volutarily jumping to 3♣ with a crappy 5 card club suit and a hand that is playable in two other suits seems dubious at best. I'm certainly not going to strain to make such a bid with a number of better calls available including

1N
Double (intending to pass 2♦)
Even 2♣ is reasonable...

[Limey_p]

I voted for double then 2N.

Any thoughts for 2S? is that hearts and a minor or is it any two suiter?

[hrothgar]

Silly question for all those advocating double followed by rebidding 2NT over 2♦

A balancing NT over a major shows (roughly) 10-16 HCP

A jump to 2NT in the balancing seat shows (roughly) 19-20 HCP. As I recall, we just had a poll where 84% of folks used this to show a strong balanced hand.

Any of you NT rebids at all worried that partner is going to play you for an 17-18 count?
If not, you should be...

[Kalvan14]

Double, and then 2N over 1N or 2♦ by partner. 4♥ (or more likely 3N) are not out of the question. 2♣ in the balancing sit is a much weaker bid than in any other position. 3♣ with just 5 cards and with a hearts suit does not appeal to me.
1N shows 11-14 in a standard treatment.

Limey, in the balancing sit a direct cue-bid is a strong take-out; and 2N shows 19-21: in a standard treatment, two-suiters are not used.

Edit: I had not realised that 1N would be up to 16sh. Bit of a wide range but it makes the 1N option more attractive

[Free]

Dbl followed by 2NT. I have 15-17 semibalanced with 1.5 stop ♠ if partner has ♦s... ♣ suit is rubish!

With FREEWILL overcalls I'd bid 2♣ showing maximum 15HCP and 4+♣ and 4+♥. Very easy

[hatchett]

1NT, protective 1NT over 1♠ should have a slightly higher top end of the range, so as to avoid driving to 2NT.

[Gerben42]

I'd love to have my usual agreement here that 2♠ now shows "this hand": 4♥, a longer minor and a strong hand afraid a direct 2m-bid will be passed.

If not I"d just bid 2♣.

[pclayton]

My teammate held this hand. He doubled and passed (!?) the 2♦ response. His pard held: ♠QJ, ♥xx, ♦AQxxx, ♣T8xx. -2 in the Burns fit when diamonds were foul.

We defended a club partial, so lose 6 on a seemingly simple hand.

I think a 2♣ or 1N balance are reasonable, if heavy. Double followed by 2N is just too much I think.

I held as dealer: ♠Kxxxx, ♥QTx, ♦9x, ♣AQx and passed; another 5332 11 count with spades - see other thread where you choose between dbling and passing 3♠. In the same 6 board match LOL.

3N's interesting but it doesn't seem to fetch.

Thanks gang.