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What should I Bid? - Best enquiry for December 2007 Maura Rhodes made the best submission for the month of December. Hand: Nil vulnerable, North is dealer. I was South:
Comments: My 2 Your thoughts, please, Sartaj? Sartaj's Reply: Hi Maura, The problem in your methods seems to be that the 3NT rebid was way too wide-ranging. From your partner's point of view, you could have held a hand as weak as xxxx or a medium hand like Kxxx or even a hand as strong as the one you did hold. Your actual hand did have a lot of potential opposite a 2 There is one convention that is almost universal in the so-called expert
community, that is the "double negative" over a Game-Force opening. Over 2 I don't have a convincing solution to your problem (2 Possibilities include.... 2 ? Or 2 ? In the latter auction, some theoretically minded individuals play 4NT as quantitative but in my partnership with Tony we play it as RKCB. A practical approach to 2 2 and so on... Lots of options, not a lot of confidence :) Regards
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