Possible auction with partnership agreements: 1C - 1H 3S -3NT 4C - 4D 4NT -5D 5H - p 3S is a splinter with hand strong enough to bid to game. 3NT is Frivolous 3NT (I have nothing extra) 4C is 1st/2nd round control as is 4D. With only 3 diamonds can (usually) assume this is the Ace. 4NT is not standard RKCB as that is not good to use with voids. However some partnerships play, when hearts are trumps, that 4S is RKCB. The reason for this is that when the response is one ace (5D) you cant ask about the queen. Using 4S as RKCB gives the necessary one extra step. 4NT is then Exclusion Blackwood, ie RKCB ex spades. Unfortunately here the 5D response means cant ask about the queen. An alternative to 4NT would be 5H, which on this auction could mean "given your bidding to date, are u max or min, bearing in mind what I have told u about my hand". Still take a bit of courage to bid 6 with a balanced quack hand with wasted values.
I don't think that auction will happen. Not because it is bad but because you can't tie me down not vulnerable against vulnerable with the west cards and force me to pass. And when I bid 1S east is going to raise. They will
This will make it hard for NS and could bully them into slam. But its not clear whether that is good or bad. Well long run I think it is bad for NS as they need to guess the clubs and I think set them up before drawing trumps as you can't ruff three spades in the dummy. So you go down half the time when you misguess the clubs plus there is the chance of a bad club break so you suffer a ruff.
Possible auction with partnership agreements:
ReplyDelete1C - 1H
3S -3NT
4C - 4D
4NT -5D
5H - p
3S is a splinter with hand strong enough to bid to game.
3NT is Frivolous 3NT (I have nothing extra)
4C is 1st/2nd round control as is 4D. With only 3 diamonds can (usually) assume this is the Ace.
4NT is not standard RKCB as that is not good to use with voids. However some partnerships play, when hearts are trumps, that 4S is RKCB. The reason for this is that when the response is one ace (5D) you cant ask about the queen. Using 4S as RKCB gives the necessary one extra step. 4NT is then Exclusion Blackwood, ie RKCB ex spades. Unfortunately here the 5D response means cant ask about the queen.
An alternative to 4NT would be 5H, which on this auction could mean "given your bidding to date, are u max or min, bearing in mind what I have told u about my hand". Still take a bit of courage to bid 6 with a balanced quack hand with wasted values.
I don't think that auction will happen. Not because it is bad but because you can't tie me down not vulnerable against vulnerable with the west cards and force me to pass. And when I bid 1S east is going to raise. They will
ReplyDeleteThis will make it hard for NS and could bully them into slam. But its not clear whether that is good or bad. Well long run I think it is bad for NS as they need to guess the clubs and I think set them up before drawing trumps as you can't ruff three spades in the dummy. So you go down half the time when you misguess the clubs plus there is the chance of a bad club break so you suffer a ruff.