[whereagles]

gordontd, on 2011-October-20, 12:11, said:

You play a natural 2C?

If I have clubs, yes.

/irony OFF

[bigbenvic]

xxhong, on 2011-October-21, 10:24, said:

I usually bid 1S as one round forcing here and 2S as C one suiter 6+C, 16+, 3C shows invitational value with strong clubs. I think that's the easiest treatment here.

Most partners I play use a j/s to show 4 card support of ♥, so 2nt here is used as GF, catch all bid (denying 4♠, 4♥ & if 4♦ then not 5♣) partner bids 3c as an asks - with 1 partner 3♠ now shows 3316 and all other bids natural.

[aguahombre]

xxhong, on 2011-October-21, 10:24, said:

I usually bid 1S as one round forcing here....

We don't have xxhong's 2S jump convention, but we do have 1S as 99 percent forcing (1/1/1), and would do that with the given hand. We later jump in hearts if possible, which only shows three of them and implies long clubs.

[the hog]

Intensly dislike 2S. It is nice to have a gadget here. The one we used was a 2NT gadget over which partner relayed with 3C to find out the hand type.
Not playing this or something sil\milar I would bid 3C, I guess.