[Mbodell]

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[inquiry]

I guess I need to know. What was 2♠?

[the hog]

I assume 2S was weak? This is a 100% pass for me and I don't even need to think hard about it.

[Cyberyeti]

I'd have opened 2♥, and would have an easy 3♣ bid over 2♠-P-P.

[ggwhiz]

Cyberyeti, on 2011-February-28, 03:32, said:

I'd have opened 2♥.

I agree with that part as it puts partner in control. If they overcall 2♠ and pard can't make a bid or penalty double, I'm passing.

There is no right bid over the given auction as partner could have anything.

[Cyberyeti]

ggwhiz, on 2011-February-28, 11:50, said:

I agree with that part as it puts partner in control. If they overcall 2♠ and pard can't make a bid or penalty double, I'm passing.

There is no right bid over the given auction as partner could have anything.

Yeah, our 2♥ can be a zero count which is why I'd bid again.

[Mbodell]

The reason for my posting was mostly to poll on logical alternatives. The North player tanked for a fair length of time and then the South player found 3♥ and they ended up in 4♥ making 5. At least this is how it was described at Judy Kay-Wolff's blog.

[mtvesuvius]

This should be a clear pass - If partner couldn't take a call, I don't want anything to do with this hand

[ArtK78]

I would bid 3♥. RHO could not open and LHO preempts. Partner has some values, so I am not going to pass.

The alternative would be 2NT, converting 3♦ to 3♥.

It is possible that my 3♥ call will work out badly (such as when both opps have maximum values for their actions and partner has a misfitting hand), but that's the way it goes.

[Phil]

Mbodell, on 2011-March-01, 01:27, said:

The reason for my posting was mostly to poll on logical alternatives. The North player tanked for a fair length of time and then the South player found 3♥ and they ended up in 4♥ making 5. At least this is how it was described at Judy Kay-Wolff's blog.

Would someone please disable the caps lock button on JK-W's computer. Please?

[the hog]

I read the blog. It is really very sad.

[blackshoe]

"Since Broadway was a prairie." Huh. Not sure which Broadway she's on about, but the one I know is in New York City, and was never a prairie. Forest, maybe.

Yes, some players need to be educated about their ethical obligations. But going berserk and screaming about it does not seem to me a useful way to proceed.

[daveharty]

the hog, on 2011-March-01, 21:36, said:

I read the blog. It is really very sad.

True, except for her use of the word "cockapitzy". That was just odd.

[bftboy]

Maybe I am converting +100 to a minus by bidding, but I doubt it. P clearly has some values, and some in my seat would have opened 2 ♥ already. So I may be catching up a bit. I don't have the shape for a dbl, and no defense, so I'd bid 2nt and convert 3♦ to ♥.

[babalu1997]

Folks, she was just having a bad hair day.

I remember once losing a score because my partner "hesitated", or so said the opps.

What likely happened was:
we were playing online
my partner would not remeber lebensohl if he heard a voice from the burning bush
thing goes 1nt-3sapdes and
he was likely putzing around looking for his lebensohl note
i was mad, but i was mad with him.

[Siegmund]

Sorta makes me wish I played 2N as Two Places in this auction, but I don't usually have that agreement available. Endplayed into pass.

If I have to express an opinion about a 3H bid I would rank it fourth, behind pass, double, and 2N (even unusual hoping partner understands a correction of 3D to 3H), though.

[gordontd]

blackshoe, on 2011-March-02, 00:54, said:

Yes, some players need to be educated about their ethical obligations. But going berserk and screaming about it does not seem to me a useful way to proceed.

Especially since she seems to have such a poor appreciation of the way the laws work and of the director's role.

[jschafer]

Double, I hope I don't get lynched