eagles123, on 2013-April-16, 04:51, said:
The hands:
West:
♠ A876
♥ A3
♦T
♣AKT743
East:
♠QJT
♥962
♦AK6
♣J985
bidding went (opps passing throughout)
1
♣ 1
♦* 1
♠ 2
♥** 3
♣ pass
*a lie I know but want to find more info and dont play a forcing 1NT. maybe 2NT better but I dont see any reason to rush?
** 4th suit forcing.
I was so reluctant to pass 3
♣ here but thought I had already shown an invitational hand with my 2
♥ bid? Pass was a disaster though with 6 making!! how can we distinguish between this kind of hand which has a genuinely good holding in clubs and wants to be in game from one that is say 5-4-2-2 and 12 pts?
Please help on how we should have bid the hand
Thanks,
Eagles
First - general system - NT range, minimum length of the club ?
You have 3 bids you could make on your hand, none of them the one you actually bid:
2
♣ inverted if you play this
3
♣ limit if you don't
2N limit if you play this
Our auction would not help you here as we would start 1
♣-2
♣(inverted)-3
♠(decent 6-4) and bidding 6
♣ is easy.
On yours - N cannot bid a NF 3
♣, his best bid is probably 3
♥ if you just play this as a general force or I have Ax(x) and I want you to protect your Q if you have it, at least you'll bid game, but you more or less killed the slam when you bid 1
♦ as partner will not assume you have 4
♣.