Rebid Dilema?

Here is your hand:

♠Q85
♥J9
♦A986
♣AQ82

You are up and open the bidding 1♦. Your LHO Passes. Partner bids 1♥. Your RHO Passes. What is your bid?

The auction proceeds as follows:

RHO	You!	LHO	Partner
	1♦	Pass	1♥
Pass	???

Question is: What will you bid now?

Show Answer

How about 1NT? This shows a balanced hand with less than an opening 1NT point count. So less than 15 HCP. You also have a smattering of values in the other suits.

This came up in the open game the other day. This hand bid 2♣ on their rebid. This tends to show an unbalanced hand with nine cards in the minors. Not as good a bid as 1NT.

Bidding Question -

Here is your hand:

♠5
♥Q5
♦KJT93
♣AK876

You are up and decide to open the bidding 1♦. (With two five card suits always bid the higher ranking suit first!)

The auction proceeds as follows:

RHO	You!	LHO	Partner
	1♦	Pass	1♠
2♥	???

Question is: What will you bid now?

If you are wondering about the vulnerability the answer is you and your partner are vulnerable and the opponents are not vulnerable.

Show Answer

This is a pretty easy bid.

You should PASS.

Quite a few people like to bid on this hand. After all you have two five card suits.

This is true. However your PARTNER bid your singleton. They are interested in ♠ and you don't have any. If Partner has long ♠ they will probably bid them again and you will not be happy.

The opponents bid your doubleton Q♥. Do you really think your Q♥ is worth 2 points now? Not likely. You are now down to an 11 point hand.

Partner cannot Pass 3♣ -- even with a fit. You could have a BIG hand.

At the table, this hand choose to bid 3♣. No one bid after that.

I hear you saying "HEY! You told me that 3♣ was a forcing bid! Partner should have bid again!"

This is true. Partner should have bid again. Partner made a mistake. It happens. In any case you are down two so it was probably lucky Partner passed.

What happens if you PASS 2♥?

The Opponents go down 2.

Neither partnership has a fit and you both got too high in the bidding.

Remember if Partner has a nice hand they get to make another bid! Then you can show your ♣ suit.

Game -- Standard American NON 2 Over 1 without Reverses: Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing or Game Forcing?

Let's play a game. The name of the game is "Standard American NON 2 Over 1 without Reverses: Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing or Game Forcing?"

I will give you a bid and you have to tell me whether or not it is a Non-Forcing bid (Partner is allowed to say Pass to the bid), a One Round Forcing bid (Partner must bid at least one more time but the partnership is not forced to game) or a Game Forcing bid (both Partners MUST bid until game is reached.)

This post concentrates on Standard American bridge in a NON 2 Over 1 auction. So basically when Responder responds at the 1 level to Opener's opening 1 level bid. Responder only promises 6 or more HCP so Opener needs a BIG hand in order to force to game.

Bids that Opener can now make that are ONE ROUND forcing:
Opener REVERSES (we are going to ignore these bids this post)

Bids that Opener can now make that are GAME forcing:
Opener makes a JUMP SHIFT

Don't know what a jump shift is? Check out this post:
Jump Shifts

All the rest of the bids Opener can make are NON forcing.

Pretty easy, eh?

You are probably thinking that is not really fair. Opener can't really force to game that easily at all. This is somewhat true. Remember Opener COULD HAVE opened the bidding 2♣ if they had a hand big enough to force Responder to game if Responder had nothing. So when Opener choose to NOT open the bidding 2♣ they do need a little something from Responder. If Responder has a little something they will bid again and game will be reached.

To be extra nice I even am giving the auctions in order and having Responder bid the next suit up from Opener's. This will eliminate all reverses (which can be confusing) and should hopefully make it easier to answer.

Hand 1

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♣	1♦
1♥

Is Opener’s rebid of 1♥ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 2

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♣	1♦
1♠

Is Opener’s rebid of 1♠ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 3

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♣	1♦
1NT

Is Opener’s rebid of 1NT Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 4

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♣	1♦
2♣

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♣ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 5

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♣	1♦
2♦

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♦ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 6

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♣	1♦
2♥

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♥ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 7

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♣	1♦
2♠

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♠ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 8

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♣	1♦
2NT

Is Opener’s rebid of 2NT Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 9

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♣	1♦
3♣

Is Opener’s rebid of 3♣ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 10

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♣	1♦
3♦

Is Opener’s rebid of 3♦ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 11

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♦	1♥
1♠

Is Opener’s rebid of 1♠ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 12

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♦	1♥
1NT

Is Opener’s rebid of 1NT Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 13

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♦	1♥
2♣

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♣ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 14

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♦	1♥
2♦

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♦ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 15

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♦	1♥
2♥

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♥ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 16

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♦	1♥
2♠

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♠ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 17

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♦	1♥
2NT

Is Opener’s rebid of 2NT Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 18

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♦	1♥
3♣

Is Opener’s rebid of 3♣ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 19

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♦	1♥
3♦

Is Opener’s rebid of 3♦ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 20

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♦	1♥
3♥

Is Opener’s rebid of 3♥ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 21

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♥	1♠
1NT

Is Opener’s rebid of 1NT Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 22

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♥	1♠
2♣

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♣ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 23

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♥	1♠
2♦

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♦ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 24

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♥	1♠
2♥

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♥ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 25

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♥	1♠
2♠

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♠ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 26

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♥	1♠
2NT

Is Opener’s rebid of 2NT Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 27

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♥	1♠
3♣

Is Opener’s rebid of 3♣ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 28

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♥	1♠
3♦

Is Opener’s rebid of 3♦ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 29

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♥	1♠
3♥

Is Opener’s rebid of 3♥ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 30

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♥	1♠
3♠

Is Opener’s rebid of 3♠ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 31

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♠	1NT
2♣

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♣ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 32

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♠	1NT
2♦

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♦ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 33

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♠	1NT
2♥

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♥ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 34

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♠	1NT
2♠

Is Opener’s rebid of 2♠ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 35

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♠	1NT
2NT

Is Opener’s rebid of 2NT Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 36

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♠	1NT
3♣

Is Opener’s rebid of 3♣ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 37

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♠	1NT
3♦

Is Opener’s rebid of 3♦ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 38

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♠	1NT
3♥

Is Opener’s rebid of 3♥ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?





Hand 39

This is the auction:

Opener	Responder
1♠	1NT
3♠

Is Opener’s rebid of 3♠ Non-Forcing, One Round Forcing, or Game Forcing?