Wednesday, November 12, 2003 5:14 AM

Hand Evaluation – Q Bids (  Implied )

 

PITBULLS:

 

            Two hands came up tonight that merit some discussion . One involves an “advanced Q bid and the other an advanced sacrifice. The first hand involves a rare concept which is an implied Q bid when circumstances change in an auction. I held

 

Axx Kxx KxQJxxx

 

Partner opens 1♣ vul , RHO bids 2 . Normally Q biding their suit shows a limit raise or better in our suit but I chose not to do it in this hand. If I bid 3 partner can be very poorly placed with flat minimums and no heart stopper. This could propel us past 3NT which may be are only makeable game. So I jumped to 3NT which brought about 4 to my left so around to me again. We contracted for a vul game,  so forcing passes are on . Partners pass means that he prefers offense to defense & shows one or less hearts . You bid 5♣ now right ?  Wrong ! Your hand is too good. You should make an implied Q bid of 4 first to let partner in the picture. You get rewarded as partner bids 6♣ which makes for 1370.

 

Partners hand is ♠QJxx void AxxxAKxxx . He does not know how severe the duplication of value is in hearts , so his pass is the right action . If I double 4 , he takes his +800 so on to the next hand. If I bid 5♣ , I put him in a guessing situation for slam when I did not have to do so . Q bid along the way to your game.

 

Same match our partners held this hand ♠xxx Q10xxx xxxxx ,  heard partner open 2 not vul against vul. Vul RHO overcalls 2 . Your call ?  Two schools of thought on these sort of hands. One is that you conceal your big fit in hopes that you do not push them to their slam . This would be good thinking if you have a trick . With this hand , you should be trying to prevent them from getting to 7♠ !  An advance sacrifice of 5 is in order which takes away their Blackwood for exploring seven . This bid of course takes away their Q bid to show a big hand. The opponents hand was ♠Qxx A AKQJ ♣KJxxx & when the jam bid was not forthcoming , they bid  Blackwood so the grand was reached at both tables for a push. Wasted opportunity for picking up 12 IMPS !!