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Meaning of 5 hearts

#1 User is offline   Wackojack 

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Posted 2014-August-12, 03:41



What is the meaning of the bid of 5♥
(a) the normal meaning
(b) your preferred meaning
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Posted 2014-August-12, 03:48

bid 6 with a club stop?
"definitely that's what I like to play when I'm playing standard - I want to be able to bid diamonds because bidding good suits is important in bridge" - Meckstroth's opinion on weak 2 diamond
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Posted 2014-August-12, 04:57

What is the meaning of the bid of 5♥

My answer ：
pd,are you second control in ♣?
1- If you have second control in ♣,you can bid 6♥.
2- If no,please pass.
3- If you have first control in ♣,you can cuebid 6♣.




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Posted 2014-August-12, 08:41

agree with all other posters so far and feel it is such a nice simple and
perfectly understandable bid that there is no other preferred meaning needed.
how else to bid something like AKQJ AKxxxx void xx?
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Posted 2014-August-13, 04:51

It depends who your partner is! If playing with an expert partner then asking for a control in the opps' suit would be my expectation. If playing in the Acol Club with a pick-up it would almost certainly be a simple invite.
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Posted 2014-August-14, 23:44

There is lots of space between 2♥ and 5♥, so partner can "ask" about a ♣ control by making strong que bids. I would treat the jump to 5♥ as asking about ♥s. I would expect North's jump to 5♥ to be a hand like AKQJx Jxxxx void AQJ. Granted that does not leave many high card points for the opps to bid, but that limitation does not seem to influence the BBO opps I play against. :D If I was South and I had ♥Axxx or ♥Kxxx, I would bid 6♥. If I had ♥AKxx, I would bid 7♥!
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