Board 6
North Deals
E-W Vul | | ♠ | J | | ♥ | Q 10 8 4 | | ♦ | A Q 8 | | ♣ | A Q 10 9 4 |
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| ♠ | Q 10 3 2 | | ♥ | A 9 | | ♦ | 7 6 4 3 | | ♣ | J 8 2 |
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| | | | ♠ | 9 6 5 4 | | ♥ | J 7 6 3 2 | | ♦ | K J 10 9 | | ♣ | — |
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| | ♠ | A K 8 7 | | ♥ | K 5 | | ♦ | 5 2 | | ♣ | K 7 6 5 3 |
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| West | North | East | South |
| | 1 ♣ | Pass | 2 ♥ |
| Pass | 3 ♣ | Pass | 3 NT |
| All pass | | | |
Here the 2 ♥ response is a transfer showing spades. Opener's 3 ♣ shows a minimum. Here 15 hcp is at or towards the top end. The range needs to be fairly wide as with no second suit the alternative is 4 ♦ which should be reserved for fairly serious slam interest.
Responder has a problem where. We reserve a new suit to show a shortage. So the choices are 3 NT or raise clubs. A jump to 5 ♣ would be quite unilateral but in a way so is 3 NT. Although opener will cognisant that responder will be 32 or 22 in the red suits.
Perhaps opener with good red suit cards can anticipate this problem and rebid 2 NT, which suffers from the similar range issues to 3 ♣.
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