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Forcing 1NT?

#1 User is offline   ArtK78 

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Posted 2011-October-20, 15:24

Playing today in an ACBL Robot Tourney, my Robot partner responded to my 1♥ opening with 1NT holding:

KQJ9842
K82
42
2

and then bid 3♥ after I bid 2♦.

It seems reasonable to mention the spade suit at some point in this auction.
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Posted 2011-October-20, 16:28

The bot must have learned that style at our club. I can understand sometimes raising hearts with six spades and 3 hearts, but bidding 1nt is just a misprogram with 7-3.
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Posted 2011-October-20, 17:29

Posts #1 and #5 in this other thread also show hands where North bid forcing 1NT rather than show spades. Neither is as dramatic as yours, but definitely a theme.
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Posted 2011-October-20, 21:48

Support with support. If you can't figure out that partner has seven spades, then that's your problem.
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Posted 2011-October-23, 12:01

Looks to me like the rule to start with forcing 1NT to show a 3-card limit raise is somehow taking precedence over showing spades. The correct way to show this hand is with

1♥-1♠
<any>-3♥
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