what do you bid?

We played matchpoints yesterday afternoon before heading into the city to watch the Bulls lose a close one to the Pistons.  Anyway …  You have QJxxx  / Kxx / AQJx /x.  Lefty opens 3C, partner doubles, righty passes.  What’s your call?  Why?

Hard at work on the partnership pieces, playing again at 11.  Stay tuned.

Published by stacy on May 18th, 2007 tagged Bridge


6 Responses to “what do you bid?”

  1. Bob Katz Says:
    May 18th, 2007 at 10:53 pm

    The only bid which shows a hand this big is 4C. I will bid 4S over whatever partner bids.

  2. stacy Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 9:25 am

    What do you expect partner to do, first over 4C and then over 4S? I’m pretty sure she’ll bid 4H, and over 4S .. who knows. She’ll either pass or keycard, right?

    Is my hand good enough to be happy when partner goes slamming? I didn’t think so at the table.

  3. Jeff Says:
    May 20th, 2007 at 10:50 am

    It is always interesting when you are the one short in the enemy suit, but your partner has doubled. Depending on the vulnerability, RHO’s failure to raise pre-emptively is a clue. Partners who double with more cards in the enemy suit have better hands, so it might not be a surprise to expect the AK of spades, A hearts and diamond K among her assets. A problem is that even a 5-3 spade fit with the tap coming in your hand could be a problem.

    I’ll go along with Bob’s plan…

  4. Bob Katz Says:
    May 21st, 2007 at 8:24 am

    I think that Q bidding and then bidding 4S is a bit of an underbid. You have a full opener, a decent 5 card suit and a singleton in opponents suit. What could be better?

    My biggest concern is that after 4H-4S partner might pass with AKxx, Axxx, Kx, xxx and if partner does not hold the K of diamonds then it is on a finesse for slam with the K lilkely onside.

    If partner bids 4S over 4C then I keycard, if 4D over 4C I bid 4S.

    I would bid 4S immediately with the same hand minus the Q of spades and AJ of diamonds leaving you with Jxxxx, Axx, Qxxx, x.

  5. Peg Says:
    May 21st, 2007 at 10:27 pm

    I like going plus.

    I would have simply bid 4S with the actual hand. When people preempt, often suits aren’t breaking as well as usual and cards are more likely to be offside.

    With Bob’s example “4S” hand, I would be content to bark out 3S.

  6. stacy Says:
    May 27th, 2007 at 8:41 am

    Bob wants to know what happened –

    Partner held Axx / Axxx / Kxxxx / A and asked for aces over my 4S. Got to 6S and went down.

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