[y66]

MPs, w/w, Qx AJT7xxx x A98

(1C) 1S (3D=weak) ?

[whereagles]

3♥ seems canonical.

[effervesce]

3♥.

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

I would force to game.

With kind regards
Marlowe

[effervesce]

P_Marlowe, on Apr 3 2008, 02:07 AM, said:

Hi,

I would force to game.

With kind regards
Marlowe

So, I assume you meant 3♥?

[ArcLight]

This can easily make, if pard has the right miniumum cards.
The chances of success may be a little less than 50%
In IMPS I would bid game.
In MP scoring - If you bid 3H, the ops need to bid a minor at the 4 level (or 5+ level). I think 3H is enough.

[han]

Do people play 3H as forcing or non-forcing?

[skjaeran]

han, on Apr 3 2008, 04:31 PM, said:

Do people play 3H as forcing or non-forcing?

Most probably, yes.

(It's forcing for me.)

[neilkaz]

Jlall, on Apr 2 2008, 10:53 PM, said:

I'd just go 4H, like putting LHO under pressure a lot

I agree..it is a 7 card suit headed by AJT

[han]

I like to play 3H as non-forcing and I would certainly bid it if the club ace was a small card. Therefore I think I have to bid 4H now.

Of course playing 3H as non-forcing will hurt on some hands. But usually if they open at the 1-level, partner overcalls and RHO bids a new suit (even preemptively), I don't have a very strong hand. When I do have a strong hand I can often either jump to game with a single suiter, raise or cue with support, bid 3NT with a stopper, or double with a more flexible hand.

Given my partner's overcalling style I must have quite a strong hand for wanting to force to game without a fit or a strong suit of my own. If your partners overcall more soundly then I understand wanting to play 3H as forcing.

[P_Marlowe]

effervesce, on Apr 3 2008, 07:42 AM, said:

P_Marlowe, on Apr 3 2008, 02:07 AM, said:

Hi,

I would force to game.

With kind regards
Marlowe

So, I assume you meant 3♥?

I am not sure, if 3H is forcing or nonforcing,
it may not even be natural (or that the jump
is natural).

What ever it takes to get to 4H, I would go
this way.

Most likely biding 4H.

With kind regards
Marlowe

[rogerclee]

I would always assume 3♥ is forcing without discussion. I think there is a reasonable argument for 3♥ to be NF here, but it would definitely be forcing if partner had overcalled at the two-level.

I think I would 3♥, since I don't want to commit 100% to strain just yet.

[Apollo81]

I like 3♥. LHO knows RHO's hand much better than I know partner's or vice versa, so I don't think preempting has that much value. Nothing here suggests a great fit to me. I think most people would take 3♥ as forcing or at least quasi forcing.