What’s your call?
| 3♥ | 3♠ | 3NT | ||
| 4♣ | 4♦ | 4♥ | 4♠ | 4NT |
| 5♣ | 5♦ | 5♥ | 5♠ | 5NT |
| 6♣ | 6♦ | 6♥ | 6♠ | 6NT |
| 7♣ | 7♦ | 7♥ | 7♠ | 7NT |
| Pass |
Surprise! Robinson doesn’t re-rebid the major. “Pass. Maybe partner has six diamonds and five hearts.”
Sanborn: “Pass. It sounds like I have two more diamonds than partner has spades. I could have played the 6–0 spade fit, but not at the three level. My spots are not good enough.”
Hampson shows his preference for diamonds by passing. “If we play spades, we may lose several club tricks, and notrump will be unmanageable.”
Korbel regretfully passes. “I guess partner really hates the idea of playing in spades. Although he shows some extras, the misfit could easily keep 3NT from being a sensible contract. Maybe he won’t be too disappointed in the dummy.”
Stack, too: “I believe I am frozen into my seat with that bid. It’s too bad, because we have a pretty good spade suit. But it’s not enough to bid one more time into partner’s hand, which probably contains a spade void. Time to bail out.”
Lawrence passes. “Partner is 0–6–5–2.”
Meyers passes. “At most, partner has one spade.”
Boehm: “Pass. Partner knows the scoring system.”
Falk agrees. “Partner knows it’s board-a-match and that we should play a major suit if that is at all reasonable, so from the North hand, 2♠ must seem unreasonable. Partner must be 0–5–5–3 or 0–6–5–2. The best we can do is our seven- or possibly eight-card fit in diamonds, so here’s hoping this is a plus score – or our smallest minus.”
Pass by Rigal. “Yes, 3NT might be a spread, but I’m going to try to go plus and hope they do not do so in the other room. Again, a very tough puzzle. 3♥ facing six might work, too.”
Colchamiro: “If partner isn’t void in spades, we’re going to have a loooong talk.”
“Ugh” [insufficient] by Cohen. “3♠. I am just guessing/hoping that my hand will be more useful with spades as trumps than as dummy in 3♦ . Surely we don’t belong in 3NT, where my hand won’t take many spade tricks.”
The Sutherlins try 3♠, too. “We were close to making an invitational 3♠ call last round. We have a poor dummy for partner. 3♠ should play OK even when we get no spade help.”
4♠ by Lee, who has a radically different interpretation of what’s going on. “I have enough to accept the invite. It’s easy to see this hand falling apart in 3NT, so I will just bid what I think I can make.”
