#Fun bridge sign in series#

Sure, you have a good preempt, but your partner has the rest of the cards, and no bid - so probably 'my suit'. I'm guessing 3D is 'hmm, I've totally misdescribed my hand, I need to show my diamond suit.' Never mind he knows they have max 15 high and potentially no fit. Yes, you can get into trouble with an auction where bidding spades shows reverse strength (good 16), but starting with spades causes this problem. There's an argument for passing this and hoping to get in with a two-suited bid next round, as well, but if you open, you have to open 1D. It's also going to lead to 4S with 6D on with a different hand in partner. Why did West open 1S and not 1D? He's bidding on shape not strength, lying about the shape because of the 5-card major is going to cause trouble like this hand. Out of the actual bidding with the actual hands, I like North, and, I guess, East. X: They aren't making this, partner, someone's finally bid my suit.4D: I lied to begin with, I'm 5=6 not 5=4, and I'm panicking.X: I don't know what's going on, but this is a misfit and I have tricks.3H: Yeah, my hand is worth zero tricks in your suits and two or three in mine, let's hope your hand has tricks for me.But it's likely that she thinks you have a real preempt, and the only tricks your side is taking is in her hand, and it's not enough. Reading Joe's comment, he's probably right that she should double this, though (for penalty). 3D: I have shape, 5=4 or 5=5, and enough extra that I think I can play opposite your horrible hand.3C: not exactly a preempt, in balance, but a 'only plays in clubs, trying to freeze out opener'.P: bad hand (usually You will see some people saying you have to get in here with a double, especially if you can correct 2C by partner to 2D without showing extra strength, a convention known as Equal Length conversion. I would read this auction (all players playing SAYC): So I don't think anybody understood your 3C bid, and I think that causes a lot of confusion. 'Jump overcalls are preemptive, showing the same value as an opening bid at the 'Overcalls show 8–16 points (double and bid the long suit with a stronger hand)' The SAYC book doesn't talk about balancing much, but it does say about direct overcalls: I don't know if the other players are bots or human, but if bots, the bidding is odd. I expect a lot of this is due to the players not knowing what they, or their opponents, are playing. So, the question is: Why West raised to 4 ♦ having not-so-strong hand and a minimum support from East? Did he try to make a save or preempt? (Surprisingly, I was the only player who played in diamonds.) The contract was played down 4, totaling -1100 points to East-West. Surprisingly, West raised to 4 ♦ which was doubled by North and stood. Now I doubled as a takeout, asking North to show at least any support (after the hand was played, it turned that 4NT was makeable for North-South).

I'm a very inexperienced bridge player (currently in Series 9 on FunBridge) and played a following deal (sorry for posting an image, a PBN version is provided below) using SAYC conventions (all other hands were presumably bots):Īfter West opened in 1 ♠ and both North and East passed, I (South) immediately raised to 3 ♣ showing a strong hand (17 HCP) and strong club suit (6 clubs headed by AKQ), West raised to 3 ♦ and East bid 3 ♥.

#Fun bridge sign in series#