Well, I'm sure that the six-card suit fiends will advocate bidding 3
on this but that is
agricultural and oblivious to danger. I have already opened the bidding vulnerable; if we can
contest the auction then partner will be able to say something over 2
.
Put another way,
partner has a better idea of my hand than I do of his - I am content to pass the decision to him.
If the hand is a misfit 3
could cost 800 or so. So I Pass,
West Passes and partner, after
consulting the ceiling, emerges with 4
, a bid which ends the auction. West leads the
K and
dummy, remarking that he was thinking of bidding 3NT displays: