White Bluffs spokesman. [volume] (White Bluffs, Wash.) 1907-1938, 1932-11-10
Modern Contract
Bridge By Leila ',attsrsIsy
No. Is.
Rebidding After a Take-Out
Against Opposition

~ essential If one hopes to win games
and slams and escape the payment of
severe penalties.
In opening the first bid of deal
you are of course in the dark about
all but your own individual holding.
Starting without clew to the loca-
ton of the outstanding strength, you
can only surmise that it is divided
and that the play Of the hand will
produce an average break of luck. For
instance, in making an original trump
bid it may be assumed that the out
standing trumps are evenly distrib-
uted and so can be drawn in three
rounds Of play. On this basis it is
reasonable to expect that a four-card
trump suit will furnish one end trick,
five card suit two end tricks, etc.
Again, holding two cards which stand
a trick, it can reasonably be expected
that one will win and the other will
lose. Thus if you were opening a one
spade bid with the following hand:
S-A Q642 H-KS76 D-K1O3 CO
your trump suit would be valued for
3k tricks, your heart king and end
card for 1, and your diamond king
for Il, total value for the hand of
playing tricks. The singleton at this
time would have no significance.
So much for the original declara-
ton. The important point is that sub
sequent bidding may reveal the neces-
sity for complete shift in the ap-
praisal of your hand. For instance,
with a raise from your partner and a
diamond bid by the opponent on your
right, your expectation in trumps is
strengthened and your king of dia-
monds may be counted as sure trick,
justifying two sound rebids in spades.
Should your partner, however, take
you out with two hearts and the same
opponent overcall with three dia-
monds, your hand would have to be
entirely revalued. Now your spades
revalued as side suit lose one length
trick. But your king of hearts be-
comes one full supporting trick, with
the length the same II. The king of
diamonds over the opposing diamond
bid can be counted for q full trick.
But the most significant shift in valu-
alton occurs in the singleton club
which from no value whatever
is raised to full supporting tricks.
Thus in reappraising this hand you
gain sufficient additional supporting
tricks to justify jump raise of your
partners bid to four hearts.
But suppose that after you have
opened the above hand with bid of
one spade, the opponent on your left
should overcall with a no trump. The
original valuation Of your hand is
greatly deprecated, with both the
queen of spades and the king Of dia-
monds Invested Of their trick taking
probabilities. So that your hand would
no longer justify jump to game even
though, over the opponent, your part
ner bid two hearts or gave raise
in spades.
Rebidding After a Take-Out
With No Opposition
With no opposition bidding the re-
Of your hand after take
out from your partner is more sim
pie matter and the decision as to
your response usually clear cut. If he
has taken you out Of major, bidding
just high enough in another suit to
cover your declaration, his take-out
may be read as definite denial Of
trump support. In such case your
suit should not be rebid unless 1t
promises at least q trump tricks.
If you have opened with a minor
suit, which your partner has over
called with another suit or no trump,
he may have help for your minor suit,
but is, correctly, seeking to improve
the situation. Your best chance here,
If you have additional strength. is to
with his effort to find
shorter route to the desired game
goal. Always remember that the road
to game via a minor suit Is long and
hard.
After you have opened suit bid,
If your partner takes out with one
no trump, he tells you that he has less
than 21a honor-tricks. SO, unless your
own quota is very high, or you are
blessed with a good twosuiter, you
may as we'll abandon hope for game.
Next to pass, the one no trump take
out Of your suit bid Is the most dis
response you can receive
from your partner.
Whenever you have bid and your
partner has taken you out with any
thing less than a forcing bid, the pri-
mary question to decide is whether
Or not your hand contains any strength
additional to that already shown. IL
your initial bid was made on the
minimum required strength, and you
nave no added Institutional support
For your partners bid, your cue there
after is silence and lot of 1t.
After partners suit take-out,
however, it frequently happens that
with no additional honor-strength,
your hand may justify rebid because
IF Institutional tricks in support Of |