Sunday, August 25, 2002 4:46 AM

Good suits & expanding Q bids

 

PITBULLS:

 

            Playing “serious 3NT” allows you to define a new meaning to a jump to game in a 2/1 auction rather than showing weakness by the principle of “fast arrival” . Fred Gittleman advises that you should not splinter or make a Jacoby 2NT bid with a good 5 or 6 card suit on the side . He says bid the 2/1 and then jump to 4 of a major to show a very narrowly defined hand . Also a jump to game instead of a 4th suit forcing can have a narrowly defined meaning and  I suggest the same concept . Points in the suit you responded , 4 trump and nothing else to say . This is the way to describe the “fit showing jump” hand  when not a passed hand. A 2/1 and jump to 3 shows 4 trump and a good suit.

 

               

1♥             2♣                   

 2♦            4♥               Qx Kxxx xx AQJ10x        The bid shows 4 trump and no

controls outside of your suit

 

1♥             1♠

 2♦            4♥               AKQxx Kxxx xx xx            Ditto

 

 

1♥            2♦               x xxxx AKQxxx xx             Do not splinter initially as your

2♥            3♠

                                                       suit is more important then the singleton Partner can infer good diamonds because you did not splinter initially

 

 

 

  1♠           2♥                                                           Before serious 3NT , this jump was all weak openers . Now you can define a meaning to it i.e. a “picture 

                                                                                   bid”

   4♥                              AQJxx   KQxx   xx  xx        No outside controls or singletons and a minimum

 

  

            Gittleman has introduced a new concept in Q bidding ( that I like ) based on not bypassing good suits by the partnership with 4 trump. In a Q bidding auction , there is no such thing as a Q bid in partners suit . Instead it shows one of the top 3 honours ( queen gets promoted )  . In addition he says that in a Q bidding auction responder can not Q bid his own suit without having 2 of the top 3 honours . He gives the following examples  

 

EXAMPLE 1:

.KJxxxx

AQx

 Axx            

xx

 Qx

AKJ10xx

 Qx

Ax            

             1♠           2♦

             2♠           3♠                                Q bidding the Queen gets them to 7NT

                                               4♦           4NT

 

EXAMPLE 2

.Kxxx

Jx

 AJ10xxx        

KQx

 Kx

AQJxxx

 x

Ax            

             1♥           2♦

             2♥           3♥                                Partner bids the serious 3NT to show serious slam interest and then “Q bids” his own suit

                                               3♠           3NT                             showing  2 of the top 3 honours . With the K filling partners suit , Blackwood gets them to 6♥

                                               4♣           4♦

                                               4NT

 

            Gittleman has also defined a Q bid in the trump suit . He says it shows 2 of the top 3 honours . I do not like that as there are other ways of finding trump strength . The return to the trump suit is a Q bidding auction should be just saying I have nothing to say .

 

 

 1♠               2♣

  2♦              2♠                        According to Fred this would show 2 out of the 3

trump honours since it is a “trump Q bid “

  3♠

 

Anyway , I recommend the Pitbulls put these new Q bids in their repertoire