[plaur]

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Online pickup, 2♥ is not game forcing - in fact played in an environment where 2H often played acol style 10+. Thus 3♦ is the first gameforcing bid.

Agree with 2♥ and 3♥ and now what?

[ggwhiz]

 plaur, on 2010-December-29, 17:42, said:

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Online pickup, 2♥ is not game forcing - in fact played in an environment where 2H often played acol style 10+. Thus 3♦ is the first gameforcing bid.

Agree with 2♥ and 3♥ and now what?

4♥ and hope it makes. Partner can have a lot of pretty good minimum hands, light in controls with a ♥ void.

[TylerE]

I'm gonna make the pragmatic bid of 6♥ over 3♦

[the hog]

 ggwhiz, on 2010-December-29, 22:37, said:

4♥ and hope it makes. Partner can have a lot of pretty good minimum hands, light in controls with a ♥ void.

lol. 4NT for me.

[Fluffy]

4NT, not the most accurate, but ♦K will hopefully not be useless.

5♥ also sounds nice if you think yout partner will understand something useful

[nige1]

 plaur, on 2010-December-29, 17:42, said:

Online pickup, 2♥ is not game forcing - in fact played in an environment where 2H often played acol style 10+. Thus 3♦ is the first gameforcing bid.
Agree with 2♥ and 3♥ and now what?

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IMO 2♥ and 3♥ both fine,
Now. 5♥ = 10, 6♥ = 9. 4N = 7, 4♥ = 3.
I hope partner will understand 5♥ to set ♥ as trumps and draw attention to the ♣ suit.

[pooltuna]

 ggwhiz, on 2010-December-29, 22:37, said:

4♥ and hope it makes. Partner can have a lot of pretty good minimum hands, light in controls with a ♥ void.

Hopefully you are being sarcastic here as you are more likely to miss bidding a making 6♥ contract than go down in 4♥. If you are not you deserve every LOL you get on here. Where is JLOGIC when you need him?

[l milne]

Partner's range includes a whole bunch of hands like KQJTx - KQJTx QJT where we are down off the top, or even hands like AKQTx - KQJTx QJT where a simple mishap like 4-0 trumps amd a trump promotion could sink our ship.

I think a case could be made for passing 1♠ even, before we get dramatically overboard.

5 hearts

[Phil]

 l milne, on 2010-December-30, 16:39, said:

Partner's range includes a whole bunch of hands like KQJTx - KQJTx QJT where we are down off the top, or even hands like AKQTx - KQJTx QJT where a simple mishap like 4-0 trumps amd a trump promotion could sink our ship.

I think a case could be made for passing 1♠ even, before we get dramatically overboard.

5 hearts

Post of the week.

[the hog]

 l milne, on 2010-December-30, 16:39, said:

Partner's range includes a whole bunch of hands like KQJTx - KQJTx QJT where we are down off the top, or even hands like AKQTx - KQJTx QJT where a simple mishap like 4-0 trumps amd a trump promotion could sink our ship.

I think a case could be made for passing 1♠ even, before we get dramatically overboard.

5 hearts

Yes I agree, in fact if you are going to bid anything it should be 1NT as you don't have the values for 2H in a 2/1 system.

[BunnyGo]

 the hog, on 2010-December-30, 19:54, said:

Yes I agree, in fact if you are going to bid anything it should be 1NT as you don't have the values for 2H in a 2/1 system.

I dunno, maybe an initial bid of 3 hearts, which partner hopefully won't think is a splinter, and instead realize you are stuck for a bid.

[ahydra]

It's gotta be 5H - anything else is likely to end in disaster.

How will partner decide to complete the sentence "5H means bid 6 if you have ..." though? Personally I'd be thinking "he's got a feckload of hearts, I need controls outside", so I'd bid 6 with something like 5 or more controls.

ahydra