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 ♦Kx ♣QJxxx
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 ♦Axxx ♣AKxxx . 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 ♦xxxx ♣x , 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 !!