11th July – Board 14: Love All. Dealer East.
When one of a major is
raised to two you have to know what the introduction of a second suit by opener
means. It cannot be a cue-bid because they only become operational when you are
in a game-forcing situation and that certainly isn’t the case. No, they are
called Trial Bids and essentially are saying to responder, ‘I still think we
might have game here. If you are maximum for your raise bid four, if minimum
bid three, and if you are in doubt look at your holding in the trial bid suit
and if you can help there, bid game.’
North:
S 7
H 10 7 4
D Q J 10 8 7
C Q J 6 5
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West:
S A K Q 5 4 2
H 9 5
D K 9
C K 7 3
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East:
S J 8 3
H A 8 3
D 5 4
C A 10 9 4 2
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South:
S 10 9 6
H K Q J 6
2
D A 6 3 2
C 8
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West
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North
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East
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South
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No
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No
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1S
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No
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2S
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No
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3C
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No
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4S
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End
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When
East decides to raise the opening 1S to 2S West cannot rule out game but
equally there could easily be four top losers so he enlists partner’s help by
making a Trial Bid of 3C. Here East is maximum on all counts and has an easy
raise to game but imagine he held something like SJxxx HQJx DQxxx Cxx. Now he
would just bid 3S and hope for the best.
Could you not equally bid 2C on East's hand? Then with West's holding he might bd 3S (not forcing presumably), followed by 4S by East as he 'knows' they have 9 spades?
ReplyDeletePORGP
Indeed you could and well might. I have no strong feelings either way. But one thing you should be aware of is that after a two-level response a jump rebid by opener in his original suit is game forcing. The reason being that if responder is strong enough to go to the two-level and opener is strong enough to make a jump rebid then there must be the values for game somewhere.
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