A minimum holding and lacking Spades is better to wait, retaining the option of reopening later.The standard agreement is that a redouble shows about 10 or more high-card points. Note that while Partner might have doubled on a three-suiter (short hearts) and only 3 Spade cards, such a call must guarantee better than minimum doubling values. There is good reason to expect 2 long Club tricks in my hand after a 2C response, even with xxxxx, compared to zero tricks total in any other denomination. Hence I lean very much into bidding 1S on the xxx-xx-Jxxx-Jxxx hand but will never continue with a 1S call holding a 5-card minor of any quality, even 5 small. Bidding a suit they hold discourages them from bidding, when we wish to make their continuation as easy as possible. This could be going down 3 or even 4 against a mere part score by Opponents, especially with partner's hand on the table. However when holding just 2-small the dynamics change. If Partner's intent is to show a 18-19 NT hand it is valuable to allow that to happen as 1 NT instead of as 2NT. This is why the 1S response is acceptable on 3-small and a bust: Partner is either bidding on, which we can pass, or has a 4-card Spade himself. To this end, it's imperative to both stay low, and avoid bidding a suit the opponents might hold 7 (or more) of. Our goal is in all cases to exit the auction as soon as possible, without ever giving opponents an opportunity to consider a penalty double that might be worth more than their own contract. Holding 4 Spade cards and short Hearts, investigating our ability to compete, and will either pass or raise 1S depending on strength Ī bit stronger intending a minimum NT bid to show a balanced 18-19 HCP with a Heart stopper orĪ 1-suited hand of his own too strong for a simple overcall. When partner Doubles 1H with our bust and 3-small Spade holding, expectation is that Partner is either: Two points not raised by the other answers are: But not many with that bidding and that hand. Sure you can find hands on which 1S is the killing bid. I don't expect to do well, but anything else is likely to be worse. Passing 1H doubled could be a disaster, and 1S might be better than 2C on a 3-card suit I am certainly hoping that the opponents bid on and come to grief in a red suit at a higher level.īut holding (S) xx (H) xxx (D) Jxxx (C) Jxxx? I would bid 2C and hope that opps bid on or partner happens to have a club suit. Four to the jack is not as good, particularly in a minor, but is still likely to work better than bidding a 2-card spade suit.Ībout the only time I would bid a 2-card suit in response to a takeout double would be if the opponents had bid 2 suits and I was 4-4 in those suits, but not strong enough to pass for penalties I would absolutely bid a 5-card club suit over a 2-card spade suit, even 5 small cards. But bidding 1S with only 2 spades could easily find you in a 6- or even a 5-card fit, in a very bad place. With a minimum hand responding 1S on a three card suit might be better than 2C on four to the jack - the decision is marginal. I would not be inclined to bid 1S with any of the hands mentioned, nor in most circumstances with a 2-card spade suit. Put another way, where is the "tipping point" of spade-club distributions, where you would bid two clubs rather than one spade? But the above variations hypothesize that I have at least two fewer spades than clubs. In the original question and answer, "one spade" was the preferred bid versus two clubs when I had one fewer spade than clubs. (S) xxx (H) xx (D) Jxx (C) Jxxxx (three spades), or (S) xx (H) xx (D) Jxxx (C) Jxxxx (only two spades). Suppose one of my minors had five cards instead of four: e.g. Suppose my major suits were reversed, so I had (S) xx (H) xxx (D) Jxxx (C) Jxxx? Would you still bid "one spade" with only two spades, or is "2 clubs" now the lesser evil? Right hand opponent passed." I had something like (S) xxx (H) xx (D) Jxxx (C) Jxxx. (I agree with that consensus.) The exact situation was: "Left hand opponent opened 1 heart. In an earlier question, the consensus was that I should answer a takeout double of one heart with one spade (the cheaper bid) rather than two clubs.
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