[dwar0123]

Another board where my partner left in disgust with my bidding. Starting to feel very insecure about my bidding, anyway I was south.

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What I do wrong this time.

[aguahombre]

Well, let's see: You advanced his takeout double with a hand suitable for a 2S advance to a takeout double. Then you compounded it by showing top range for 2S advance with defense rather than offense, when you had defense as opposed to offense for your previous bidding.

No wonder North was disgusted. His partners have probably never done that before. Did you ask what East's bidding meant? Nothing East could have consistent with West's opening bid and the N/S holdings exists.

[ahydra]

What aguahombre is trying to say is "you did everything right" If your partnership agreement was that 2S can be as few as 4, this is true.

However I prefer a jump response to X to show 5 cards, since you're eating so much room. A natural 2NT bid straight off is probably best (especially given your club holding). Apart from that, the X of 2NT and pass of 3S look fine. It's the 3S bid by North that's dodgy - he has already shown his hand.

ahydra

[S2000magic]

dwar0123, on 2012-January-22, 03:27, said:

What I do wrong this time.

Chose North as your partner?



I agree with ahydra that 2NT is a better first bid than 2♠ (see this thread), 2♠ is certainly reasonable. I disagree that it should show 5 spades; change your hand to:

♠ A Q x x
♥ x x x
♦ A x x
♣ x x x

and 2♠ is the only sensible way to describe this hand, despite the 4-card suit.

aguahombre's right: your bidding was fine, and your partner's probably never had a partner bid correctly.

[dwar0123]

Thanks for the reassurance, I think both north and east thought 2♠ was a preempt? Anyway, east had spades stopped(q10xx) and 7 points.

[aguahombre]

dwar0123, on 2012-January-23, 01:53, said:

Thanks for the reassurance, I think both north and east thought 2♠ was a preempt? Anyway, east had spades stopped(q10xx) and 7 points.

East deserves to be North's partner. You will find plenty.