Responder’s rebid after a 1NT response
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Let’s see how familiar you are with responder’s follow up rebids after having responded 1NT to a 1S opening bid.
You are South, neither side is vulnerable, and you are playing matchpoints.
What is your rebid, if anything, with each of the following seven hands?
♠ 72 ♥ A1098 ♦ J103 ♣ KJ108
2NT. This normally shows 10 HCP with the unbid suits well stopped. However, you are allowed to cheat a point holding three tens.
♠ 432 ♥ QJ98 ♦ QJ10 ♣ 1098
2♠. With three cards in each of partner’s suits, return to the first suit if you want to keep your partner; pass if you want to get rid of him.
♠ 43 ♥ KJ10985 ♦ Q762 ♣ 7
2♥. Even with four diamonds you simply cannot conceal a six card major of this strength.
♠ 4 ♥ A876 ♦ QJ876 ♣ 654
3♦. Seems pretty obvious. If you even thought of bidding something else, don’t mention it in public.
♠ 54 ♥ Q76 ♦ 109 ♣ KQ10943
3♣. For the same reason you bid 2♥ on #3, to show your partner a strong six card suit with few HCP.
♠ 4 ♥ J1098 ♦ Q43 ♣ A8765
Pass. Anything else is playing with fire.
♠ 43 ♥ 3 ♦ K108743 ♣ A976
4♣. The “out of the blue cue”. What, you’ve never heard of it? This jump from outer space shows a magnificent fit with partner’s last bid suit plus an ace in the jump suit. What else can it mean? You weren’t strong enough to open or respond at the two level after you passed, so you must have been hit big time. However, take full credit if you jumped to 4♦, but raising to only 3♦ is cowardly to the max.
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