Zelandakh, on 2017-December-21, 07:06, said:
If you do open 2♣, what is your plan if it goes something like 2♣ - (3♠) - P - (6♠), where partner's pass showed values? Are you going to bid 7♥ in front of partner? Or make a forcing pass? If you FP and partner doubles, are you feeling comfortable about sitting?
I think Vampyr has a good case for a 3NT or 4♣ opening if that is on our card. Failing that, there are good arguments for any number of hearts with the possible exceptions of 2, 3 and 7. Hands like this tend to be much more about tactical opportunity than any scientific method. Indeed there is a good argument for varying one's way of handling them, sometimes preempting high, sometimes using a slam-try opening and sometimes walking the dog. I could be wrong but I doubt anyone here could definitively say that a particular approach was absolutely the best, even Fred, Mike or Justin.
This forum is for intermediates and advanced and I do not pose to be an advanced one.The OP has just asked the way to bid this hand and accordingly I have given my system of bidding.I had strictly mentioned that this is the way the bidding will go IF (and this is a big IF)the opponent are silent.However If the opponents intervene then then I do not mind forgetting this board or many more like this where opponents put the S ystem to a ditch.FULL STOP.
We play a convention popular in the UK:
3N = ART 7+ M 8-10 Playing tricks. Then
- 4♣ asks opener to transfer to his M.
- 4♦ is a slam try.
But it might not help us here.
South is unlikely to make a try but if he does, then the slam should be reached.