What should I bid? - Best enquiry for July 2012
The best submission for July came from Maura Rhodes.
Hand: NS Vulnerable with West the
dealer, playing IMPs, I was North.
Andy's Reply:
You have encountered one of the most common problems faced in a natural based
system. It is quite impossible to solve this problem unless you have some sort
of gadget (or agreements) up your sleeves. Let's start off with the easier
part.
1) I would open 1 . My hand is nowhere near a GF, nor is it balanced so the best
way to describe our hand is with a 1 opening. It's true that we will encounter a nasty problem if
partner responds 1M, but who says partner will always do that? Maybe your LHO
will overcall 1 and partner is able to bid 1 showing 5+ or something. You should not go out of your way of distorting
your opening bid to cater for your rebid when you have another sensible bid
available.
2) If partner responds 1, I will reverse with 2. Yes, I know this should promise 4 but my plan is to make a
delayed spade raise. What if partner raises hearts? Great! That means partner
will have 5 because if partner has 44 in the majors they would respond 1, not 1.
3) If partner responds 1 then this is very tricky. One alternative is to make a fake
jumpshift with 2 (supposedly natural and game-forcing) planning to make a
delayed heart raise (showing 3 card support) with a 3 bid but partner will need to be in on the gag for otherwise
lying about a 4th major suit card is quite critical. If jumpshifting with 2 is not an option, then I really don't know what to do! One
alternative is to give up the 3 rebid (I assume this bid means 4 card support with diamond shortage) and use this bid to show 6+, 3 and GF. You don't give up too much since if you have a hand
with 4 card support + diamond shortage you can just invite with a 3 rebid.
I hope this is somewhat helpful.
Andy
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