Another thing to add to the list of things to address... I've developed a predilection for various cuebids. The trick is that I occasionally space, I think, on what those bids actually mean. Take the following debacle I caused, for example:
| West | North | East | South |
| 1♥ | 2♦ | 2♠ |
| p | ? |
What do you bid back over partner's 2
♠? You know you probably want to be in 4♠ at least. I thought "Ah! I'll be artistic and cuebid!". So, I bid an "elegant" 3♦. My plan was one of two things. Either:
- Pard will see this as agreeing spades and cuebid with a great hand. Or...
- Pard will see this as a generic GF cuebid, limit their hand, and then I can bid game.
So, imagine my joy when partner answered back with a jump to 4
♣! I was thrilled thinking we'd agreed spades and were now cuebidding controls. This was reinforced in my head since we had bypassed the 3-level altogether and a possible, logical stopping spot of 3NT.
So, I decided to cuebid back my heart control. The auction so far:
| West | North | East | South |
| 1♥ | 2♦ | 2♠ |
| p | 3♦ | p | 4♣ |
| p | 4♥ |
|
And that's where it stayed... Passed out at 4
♥. So, I waited (very) anxiously for dummy to come down. Sitting north, I saw:
4
♠ and 4♥ both rate to go down (lose 2
♣s, 1
♦, and 1
♠), though I'd still rather be in 4
♠ than 4
♥.
As it is the defense led/won the
♣AK, but erred by leading a 3rd round. West ruffed with the
♥2, which I overruffed. West had 4
♥s to start with, so I was now able to pull trumps, lose the
♠A, and the rest came home.
So, the next chapter to finish in the bidding guide is on competitive cuebids.
2 comments:
Confusing - I'm not sure what 3D should mean.
Another possible meaning is a Western Cue Bid - asking partner to bid 3NT with a diamond stop.
A better question, for me, would be - how many points/spades does your partner's 2S bid promise? I (naively?) would have expected 10+. With 4 spades and less than 10 points, I would have opted for a negative double.
Lots going on here, for sure.
0.02
You're even kind enough to not poke fun at me for opening the wrong major... :) (Which I didn't, but I did mispost that I was 5/5 - though it's fixed now).
As far as pard's 2S goes, I agree... I would've expected a little more hand (or distribution) and 5+ spades. Especially since we were vulnerable.
Of course, all's well that ends well, right?
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