A: If our majors were flipped, DOUble, then 4S over 4H might get 20+ votes. But here, DOUble, then 5H over 4S surely won't come close to that. The best way to recover from the underbid most uf us will be making here is for the opps to somehow come up with a club raise, so we can rebid 5D. I am not counting on this, but...
--- Four Hearts--- anyway.
B: I will bid my one card [other then their trump queen]. If partner isn't coming again with a heart rebid, I would rather be somewhere else. In fact I DO rather be someplace else!
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hree Diamonds---
C: Do we all realize that pard's 3 Spades will usually be a waffle? What can an ordinary opening had lacking a spade card AND a heart suit do after all?? It's too early to get rowdy yet--just do what Hamman says for now.
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Three Notrump---
D: I have never shown a 5-card red suit after this auction, but.....Jim put a bee in my bonnet:: in hearts, I AM worth some tricks, more than usual COMPARED TO WHAT a crappy dummy this is for spades. we will not speak of dropping pard in 2
, ok?
...This TRULY a "misery preference" to 2 spades--worse even than most 6-to-9 with a doubleton trump compared to the alternative of 2
---Two Hearts---E: I know bidding 3
now is 'kitchen bridge' when not having 5+ length in diamonds, but i don't see the harm. If partner supports diamonds now, correcting to 4
cant be that bad, so the first-impulse rebid of 2NT is not needed with our 10xx club holding. The panel will probably split between a spade raise and that automatic rebid in NT, though
. I know I am not changing to a spade raise this month--after all north may have 6-4 majors and then we can't get to 4
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Three Hearts---
F: Tooo SIMPLE! In no style I know of, or ever want to know of, does
"1 (1 ) double 2 ; 3 (pass) THREE SPADES " show five+ spades! there is no need at all for some mystery cue-bid if you agree with this. This is a one-answer problem or Bob's my uncle -- with the distant other answer being to drop pard in three diamonds -- scoring a minus 50.
---Three Spades--- P.S. some rascal mentioned tha when playing
"NEGATIVE FREE BID" this 3 spade rebid does show a real suit. Fine. I HAVE heard of this convention--yes, but do I WANT to hear of it--no.
G: Like "F" above, there is absolutely no need to look beyond the one obvious answer--in this case "double". I can't believe they didn't present a second round of bidding and ask us what to call after some 7-bid auction.
---Double--- madnessH: