Weekly Hand Analysis - Glenna Shannahan - January 16, 2023 - Bid

 

Question: If you notice this bidding sequence between East and West is different.  East opens up with a heart but rather than confirming hearts with a bid, West shows spades.  What is the correct way to bid this hand?

Glenna:

Good hand to talk about: Will give you how the bidding should go and then want to talk about that they did NOT show their partner what they really held:

6♥️  is cold and many, many players would bid 6. This is a hand where you pull only 2 rounds of trump so you can ruff a loser in dummy with the ♥️ 10. 

Both W and E got off to a good start, but then collapsed on their 2nd bid. E cannot bid 1 NT which shows 13 or 14 and actually has 17!!! AND is not balanced; rather a very fine 2nd suit—show it to partner.  W is showing an opening hand now by bidding game: bid of a new suit and a simple raise shows 6 - 10 and NOT the 14 point opening hand he has!!!

Point to remember: 

• Opener jumps to game after a simple bid by partner shows 19-21!
• Responder jumps to game show a weak hand with long trump. 

Go fast with bad hands and slow with good hands. 2 ♥️ by W in the initial uncorrected bid shows 6-10 so bid game.  I really hope this helps because this is information that you must know in order to advance in bridge.