[flytoox]

Just want to clarify some question I am not sure. We all know in competitive auction it is utter important to find a fit. We all know to raise pd's major suit. The question arises when Pd overcall a minor suit AND you have some fit and a major suit. What do you do? When do you raise pd's minor suit, when do you bid ur own major suit?

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Scoring: IMP

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Scoring: IMP

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[whereagles]

1. Playing 2/2 as forcing you can bid the major
2. Playing 2/2 as non-forcing you're into a permanent guess
3. Playing transfer advances you can bid the major and later support the minor
4. Playing fit-bids and fit-non-jumps you can bid the major and the minor in one go

[flytoox]

whereagles, on Dec 16 2004, 11:59 AM, said:

1. Playing 2/2 as forcing you can bid the major
2. Playing 2/2 as non-forcing you're into a permanent guess
3. Playing transfer advances you can bid the major and later support the minor
4. Playing fit-bids and fit-non-jumps you can bid the major and the minor in one go

Do you have details about the xfer response and their follow-up and how to handle the interference? THanks in advance. Looks xfer response really got its momentum.

[inquiry]

The transfer advances (when your RHO passes), start at the level of cue-bid and go up to the simple raise of your parnters suit... so...

(1D)-2C-(P)-?

• 2D (their suit) is transfer to hearts
  
• 2H is transfer to spades
  
• 2S is "sound" riase (cue-bid can't be anymore)
  
• 3C is weak raise

Obviously, if they had opened 1H and your partner had overcalled 2C, then 2D is not a transfer, but shows diamonds. 2H would be spade transfer, 2S would be sound club raise, and 3C weak raise. Works like that.

How to handle interference is still ackward. So only transfer with support with great hand... otherwise use a fit jump (which is more immune to their preemption).

These two hands border on being too strong for a simple 3C raise. With the second one, I would surely use a fit jump to 3♥. With the first one, I would anguish over what the right bid is. 3♣ raise is not huge overbid, 2♦ cue-bid is not a huge underbid, but in final analysis I think 3♥ is right here too.

[luke warm]

me too, unless hand is good nuff for a fit jump

[HeartA]

I would bid my major (2♥) here with both of the hands.