What should I Bid? - Best enquiry for September 2007

Sue Robinson made the best submission for the month of September.

Hand: I was first in hand, vulnerable against not vulnerable on the following deal:

	5  98732  Q6532  92
K109742  A1064  107  J		83  -  J9  AKQ876543
	AQJ6  KQJ5  AK84  10

Bidding:	West	North	East	South
			5	All pass

Comments:    I opened the bidding with 5. Everyone else passed. I rather suspect that my partner thought that my opening bid was rather aggressive. I would be interested in your opinion please. As it played I went down 1 for minus 100.

Peter's Reply:

Hi Sue,

5 looks to me to be straight out of the textbook. The alternative, if available in your bidding method, is 3NT. This bid, for some partnerships, shows a solid minor with nothing significant outside the suit. With a nine card suit, many experts would choose 5 anyway because of its removal of 4/ from the opponents' opportunities.

Note that 4 by the opponents cannot be defeated and 5 only fails because of the 4-0 heart break.

Regards
Peter Fordham

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