michel444, on 2022-September-14, 13:38, said:
inverted minor is a great idea !
never understood what opener rebid after to show minimum openinig
anyway this is west hand and oponet lead the 7 of
♣ to king and i took with the ace of club tryed the diamond finees who lost and another club
i end up 1 down
So your choices were: reach 3N by responder and go down when they guess to lead a club AND the diamond hook fails or reach 5D by west and usually go down (you might make if you can take 3 spade tricks without losing one, but take away the impossible to value spade 9 and you’ll lose a spade trick much of the time,..take away the 10 instead, and you’ll lose a spade trick every time, or stay out of spgame with 26 hcp, every suit double stopped and a source of tricks
Bridge is fun in larger part because, no matter how well one bids, one can fail in a good contract or sometimes make a hair-raisingly bad contract
Shrug, move on.
As for my response…depends who I’m playing with. In one partnership, 1D promises an unbalanced hand )will have as few as 4 only if 1444/4144/4441) and now I’d use inverted. But we play a fairly complex set of responses…here opener would bid 3D to show a minimum and I’d bid the doomed 3N. C’est la vie
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