MrAce, on 2012-May-17, 18:59, said:
It depends who you are asking to.
4♥ for most people is 2 places to play, 2 suiter, or whatever you want to call it. Minors are pretty much covered here.
I was just reading in the Dutch Bermuda Bowl book about the following auction:
1S - (Dbl) - 2S - (Dbl)
p - (3S) - p - (4H)
p - (4NT) - p - (5D)
all pass
Sementa thought that 4NT was keycards for hearts, Duboin intended it as minors. 5D in the 5-2 fit had no chance while 5C in the 5-4 fit was cold.
Who was right?
Duboin had something like xx AK AKJxx QJxx. Perhaps 2D is an alternative to doubling, depending on style, but once you double I think that 3S is the only option for the second call. After partner bids 4H you can't pass, and I think that 5C would just show diamonds, why can't he have a strong single suited hand that wanted to play clubs if partner had those?
Sementa had xx xxxx xx AKxxx. Not a typical hand for a responsive double, but using 2NT as scrambling it seems like you will usually get to a good spot on partscore deals. After 3S I think that Sementa should have bid 4C, but I understand that he wanted to bid his hearts after having suggested fewer than 4. It created this mess though.
The real problem came with the misunderstanding of 4NT of course. I don't know what is right, although looking at Duboin's hand I don't see any other way to bid it so I think it has to be minors, and the slam try hands will have to bid 4S over 4H. What do you think?
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.
- hrothgar