We are an established pair but rarely splinter and as there was no formal agreement and it hadn’t happened before I was hoping partner would use his bridge knowledge to treat is as a 4th suit forcing.
Yes 2♠ would be forcing hence I feel that 3♠ had to be an asking bid of some sort. So if partner bids 3NT he has a spade stop so I’d be happy to pass, if he bids 4♦ I bid 6♦.
Thank you David for your contribution and if you don't mind will share this with our directors as how to handle this situation in a mature way, as you might guess all the posted arguments came to light in the bridge room afterwards but someone did postulate this was ...
Calling South poor for not bidding a contract that after seeing all 4 hands seems easy when also knowing there is a complete fubar going on that might have 4 or more Spade losers and another ♥ or ♦.
They also didn't want to stress out East who was ...
We discussed this to death, give North a void in ♦ and either E or W Jxxx in Diamonds and 3NT is 4 off potentially or the exposure in ♠s as well?
If the ♦ bid was based on a 4333 hand with Diamonds and not a transfer then South ...
The directors had this very discussion but assuming South is stupid what they do as 3♦ is a cue bid if 2♦ is natural and ♦ is natural if 2♦ is a transfer AND what would be considered a SEWOG move (3NT?)?
To be beyond stupid there ...