Re: What would you bid?

DM wrote: 
Your are South and you pick up.........

S A K 10 9 4 3
H 4
D Q 7 6
C A 9 7

Playing 5 card Maj, Strong NT, otherwise natural.

Dealer E.

Bidding goes:

E p
S 1S
W p
N 2H

Assuming you rebid 2S, North rebids 3D. This does not promise 5D.

What do you bid now?


Well, partner has not bothered to support spades, so unless you usually rebid 2S with five of them, partner has spade shortage..... and you have aces and spaces, except for the DQ. So my call is 4D.


At Matchpoints Hamman's Rule endlays me into 3NT, but I'm not happy with it.

Bob
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