[sceptic]

Scoring: IMP

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West North East South

 -     -     -     Pass
 Pass  1♥    2NT   3♣
 Dbl   3♥    Pass  4♦
 Pass  4♥    Pass  Pass
 Pass  

OK, my bids were 3 clubs (good heart raise) and 4 diaminds (control show) 2nt was minor showing

how would you bid this and what do you think of my bidding please

[mike777]

Since I am a passed hand I would have just bid 4d over 2nt to show g/f and short D in case LHO bids something. In your sequence LHO may bid over 3c and now you have not shown all your features but.......

[luke warm]

4♦ also

[hoki]

Hopefully you and your partner are on the same wavelength. If you play some form of Bergen raises where 3C shows heart support then that is fine, but in a normal pick-up partnership I think 4H is enough. Partner didn't open 2C and the opposition bidding indicates that minor-suit honours are probably sitting over partner, so I do not envisage a slam. However, since East-West have an excellent sacrifice in either minor suit, then maybe your "psychic" bidding is the perfect way to keep the opponents from finding the good sacrifice.

Of course, part of the reason that the sacrifice will not be easy to find is that an unusual hand, like a Michaels cue bid, should be based on either a weak hand or a very strong hand. With an intermediate hand, like this East one, East is better advised to bid 2D over the 1H opening - and then take the bit in the teeth and if the bidding has reached 4H by the time it comes back to East, the vulnerability and the great hand shape suggests that a bid of 5C would then not be inappropriate.

Oliver