cue bid

re:Michaels or Monster vs. intermediate 2C
In category General
Written by Niele

What significance have people surely attached to the following auction?
(2C[1])-3C [1] 10/11-14/15 with a real club suit

Do people treat this as [especially modified] Michaels disagreeably showing either the majors [or spades and a red suit] (possibly weak, possibly 4-4) or as a monster cue bid showing at least 17 HCP and all three top suits? What factors would you consider in deciding?

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re:New Convention???
In category General
Written by Niele

The brideg column in the local papers has had this bidding sequence in a number hands:

1S - 2C - 3C

and they identify the 3C as "limit raise or better in spades"

Is this a new convention? How would you reveal this on a convention card?

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re:Awkward response to neg. double
In category General
Written by Niele

MP, vuln vs not,
I dealt & opened one diamond the following hand

KJx-xxx-AQJx-Qxx

1D-(1H)-X-p ?

What to bid ? Id love to be able to play NT, but it's my pard who should bid them if he has a stopper.
2D looks wrong, 1NT looks wrong because no stopper, 1S should promise 4 spadses i guess.

So I bid 1S and pard jumped to 4S apparently playing me for 4 cd support.

Dummy was something like

Qxx

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