This hand had everyone bidding. Should E have bid 4 D over
partner’s bid of 3 H?
Mark:
I'm guessing that 3 hearts failed by a trick. N-S can make 2
spades but not 3, so their bidding is fine.
The ideal contract is a diamond part- score by E-W. %
diamonds can be made, but only by playing badly, taking a backwards finesse,
which has a much lower chance of success most of the time, but works on this
peculiar hand. East got off on the wrong foot bidding the minor suits in
reverse order. At first it seems as if E is conserving space by making the
cheaper bid first, but look how awkward it became to show the diamond suit. E
created the impression that clubs were longer and stronger than diamonds. That's
why W felt uneasy about leaving it in diamonds and returned to the hearts.
Had East's first suit been in diamonds then showed clubs at the next turn, W
could show a preference in diamonds by by bidding it over 3 clubs and even
raising to 4 diamonds if the competition got aggressive. East had no idea that
W had 3 card diamond support and W couldn't be sure that E had 5 diamonds,
so neither had the confidence to go to 4 diamonds, which would have worked out
very well. The minor suit distribution and strength of the hand would have been
better shown by E first bidding diamonds and bidding clubs next.
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