I actually would not have learn it that manner. However I additionally would not deal with it as a “pull”, no matter meaning, of two♥. Your “no options” response appears to imply you assume “pull” means “function ask” like should you had opened 2♥, however the likelihood associate has a robust hand with a robust NT in your proper…
Over a robust NT, you do not need to play 2NT (this is applicable to a sure extent in any aggressive public sale, therefore the remark within the earlier thread that “many partnerships cannot bid 2NT naturally after weak 2-double-pass). Accomplice just isn’t working from 2♥ into 2NT – okay some will as a result of “they’re scared”, however they should not.
Having mentioned that, they’re asking you to proceed someplace, and you can begin by assuming it is “not spades” (or they’d bid it on the 2 degree) and “not hearts” (as a result of they did not increase). So…minors.
However, associate may return to hearts. What if she’s 3=2=(35) with a good hand? She may need to attempt to get to golf equipment when you’ve got them along with her, or again to hearts if not.
(Now, explicitly in my most well-liked overcalling system, 2NT tends to indicate “good hand, recreation curiosity”. But it surely tends to come back up extra typically after I present a two-suiter, in order that they be taught one thing helpful about my hand. And it “by no means” comes up. However with out dialogue, I would not assume associate is in settlement).
As for “uncommon 2NT”, that’s an overcall of a gap go well with bid, exhibiting both the minors or (extra generally) the 2 lowest unbid fits (which, over a significant, is the minors, however over a minor is hearts and the opposite minor). No different conditions are “uncommon 2NT”, even when 2NT is the minors:
- (1NT)-2NT: most defensive programs play that as “each minors”.
- 1♥-p-2♥-2NT: most wouldn’t play this as “I believe I can take 8 tips in opposition to a 5-3 (no less than) coronary heart assault”, however as “I haven’t got spades (or I’d have doubled or bid them), however I need to compete in opposition to their match” – subsequently, “minors”.
- 1♥-X-2♥-2NT: identical as above. However most individuals play Responsive Doubles right here, and would double to indicate the minors (as a result of your double “guarantees” spades, and majors rule in partscore battles, and so she would bid that if that was an possibility). So this – ? Perhaps it does present curiosity in recreation with hearts stopped, in case your double is sweet, and the vulnerability is such that you just’re not getting them sufficient. I do not know.
- there are lots of gamers who play “Good [bid]/Dangerous 2NT” in aggressive auctions. Right here, 2NT is keen to compete to the three degree however not recreation curiosity, and also you’re imagined to allow them to present the place (or present a extra shapely hand when you’ve got it. Once more, regularly it’s minors-oriented, as a result of “with the main, we might compete there”, however particularly over spades, they cannot bid 3 ♥ with out recreation curiosity.
