[ASkolnick]

3 different hands, curious what people think the calls should be.

Hand 1:

1♦-1♥-P-1♠
2♣-2♠-P-3♠
P- 4♠

You hold:

♠AQ84
♥9xxxx
♦xx
♣xx

Hand 2:

QTxxx
KQxxx
xx
x

1♣-1♦-1♥-???

Hand 3:

KJx
AQTxx
KJxx
K

P- P-1♥-P
1♠-P - 2♦-P
3♣-P - ????

[MFA]

1) pass. I would have negative doubled 1♥, btw.
2) 1♠.
3) 14 cards. Remove a heart and I bid 4♠.

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

#1 X, wtp?
#2 Pass
#3 4S

With kind regards
Marlowe

[fromageGB]

1) X
2) 1♠ - you are far too good to pass, and those hearts are brilliant.
3) I sometimes have difficulty counting to 13, but it looks like 13 to me. I would have bid 3♦ initially to show the strength, but now, having bid 2♦, I must think. I play 4SF at the 3 level as game forcing, so as partner thinks I have a 12 count, I am far too good for 4S. I bid 4NT, ace asking with spades as the trump suit.

[jdonn]

I looked at the other posts so I could just quote one and say I agree, but I didn't find one

1 - Double. Like MFA I would have made a negative double.
2 - 1♠
3 - 4♠

I think all of these are fairly easy calls...

[han]

OK I can quote one now.

[whereagles]

1. Dbl. Hope pard won't take this as a request for some silly heart lead... well, he rates to have a natural minor suit lead anyway.

2. 1♠. Seems quite normal.

3. This auction seems inconsistent... pard is a passed hand, so he's likely to have some heart fit to bid the 4SF. I can't really believe he has some 5-1-3-4 and 11 hcp. But if he's got a heart fit, how come he didn't use Drury?? Anyway, I'll just bid 3♦ and wait for him to clear up the mess. If it goes

3♦ 3NT

now I know he really has that 5-1-3-4 and sucks at bidding I'd pull 3NT to 4♠, of course.

[andy_h]

Make that two, han

[fromageGB]

whereagles, on Nov 17 2008, 09:46 PM, said:

pard is a passed hand,

Woops ! I missed that. I take back everything I said.

[Codo]

1. pass
2. 1 ♠ wtp?
3. 4 ♠ Pd cannot have a heart raise, he had raised Hearts then. So I give him some nice 11 point hand with some diamond values, so that he upgraded his hand.