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#1 User is offline   MrAce 

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Posted 2013-December-13, 14:40



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Posted 2013-December-13, 14:57

Double, card showing and trusting that partner will not be leaving it in due to my heart holding.

That way I can hear about doubleton spade support (and raise to 3) or get to 3 in a manner that invites without hanging or other things I am not entirely uncomfortable with.

Mind you if partner passes the double they have a stiff spade and if I'm east they may have 3 hearts too. :P
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Posted 2013-December-13, 15:01

double looks right, agree with reasoning laid out by the previous poster. I don't hate 2 or 3 either, but they don't really do justice to my hand, so I think of those as lesser choices, approximately equal in value. If partner leaves in the double, at least we have 2 aces and a singleton.
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Posted 2013-December-13, 15:06

Yes double. Hand is way too good for 3d or 2s. Not sure why people are worried about it being passed out.
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Posted 2013-December-13, 15:35

I'd double. Hopefully partner will support with two cards... What to do over 3 is the interesting question...

View Postwyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the 3.


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Posted 2013-December-13, 16:05

Double, and of course partner will support with a doubleton honor as he didn't bid over 2. If he bids 3, 3 should be invitational. If he bids 3, I would raise to 4.
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Posted 2013-December-14, 18:11

If this were MP I would strongly consider passing and hoping to get +200 in 2h but at IMPS

it is just too great a risk missing a vul game for a paltry 2-3 imps. Once that decision is made

x

seems to be the best of all worlds since it leaves us well positioned for anything p bids next

and ecstatic if by some chance p passes (very unlikely unless playing ggwhiz:).



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Posted 2013-December-14, 19:09

Recurring problem that is much easier with intermediate js (8-11).
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Posted 2013-December-15, 01:20

X is ok. 2S isreasonable as well.
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Posted 2013-December-15, 01:41

View Postwank, on 2013-December-13, 15:06, said:

Not sure why people are worried about it being passed out.


I don't think anyone's worried; I think they are salivating if partner thinks its right to defend
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Posted 2013-December-15, 10:45

X seems to the best choice; if playing with a random pard, 2 is a reasonable alternative.
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Posted 2013-December-15, 17:23

Are you all assuming that we play wjs, to suggest that 2 is reasonable at team game ? FYI, wjs was not available.

I thought 2 would be a bizzarre bid, regardless of it is the winning bid or not.....I mean we have a 1 opener if you are an aggressive player. If you don't like 1 opening, which is perfectly normal not to open, we can say "we have close to 1 opening" In either case, 2 would be a gross underbid of the hand as responder at teams, don't you think ?
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Posted 2013-December-15, 22:24

View PostMrAce, on 2013-December-15, 17:23, said:

Are you all assuming that we play wjs, to suggest that 2 is reasonable at team game ? FYI, wjs was not available.

I thought 2 would be a bizzarre bid, regardless of it is the winning bid or not.....I mean we have a 1 opener if you are an aggressive player. If you don't like 1 opening, which is perfectly normal not to open, we can say "we have close to 1 opening" In either case, 2 would be a gross underbid of the hand as responder at teams, don't you think ?


I don't think 2S is bizarre at all. 2S certainly suggests reasonable values. I would think the bid suggested by one poster above as 2S Intermediate, would be bizarre. This is not close to an intermediate 2S bid in terms of spade quality.
A 2S fit jump immediately would have been a nice bid.
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Posted 2013-December-16, 02:13

View Postthe hog, on 2013-December-15, 22:24, said:

I don't think 2S is bizarre at all. 2S certainly suggests reasonable values. I would think the bid suggested by one poster above as 2S Intermediate, would be bizarre. This is not close to an intermediate 2S bid in terms of spade quality.
A 2S fit jump immediately would have been a nice bid.



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Posted 2013-December-16, 02:43



This was what pd had, open room played part score in spades after South made a "reasonable" 2 bid, other table bid and made 6 (idk their auction at the other table) Which was -15 imps
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Posted 2013-December-16, 04:33

I think the North hand should bid 3 over 2. A takeout double would be a good choice too, but I assume you were unelightenedly playing support doubles.
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Posted 2013-December-16, 05:14

View Postgnasher, on 2013-December-16, 04:33, said:

I think the North hand should bid 3 over 2. A takeout double would be a good choice too, but I assume you were unelightenedly playing support doubles.


Yes dbl would be 3 card spades, even though 1 showed 5+, it's of course debatable which is better. N believed 3 would be better hand than this, probably because he was playing with a conservative pd and he would expect much more than this. See... being extremely conservative can hit you in different ways. Imo S not only underbid his hand grossly by 2 but also affected his pd. But this is just a guess, i may be wrong. They didn't comment on the bidding afterwards.

Btw, what do you think of 2 Andy ? By South over 2 and not playing wjs.
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Posted 2013-December-16, 09:45

View PostMrAce, on 2013-December-16, 02:43, said:



This was what pd had, open room played part score in spades after South made a "reasonable" 2 bid, other table bid and made 6 (idk their auction at the other table) Which was -15 imps

Hands fit perfectly.

Is there a game with these hands?
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Posted 2013-December-16, 10:46

View PostMrAce, on 2013-December-16, 02:43, said:



This was what pd had, open room played part score in spades after South made a "reasonable" 2 bid, other table bid and made 6 (idk their auction at the other table) Which was -15 imps

I have no idea, and I suspect you don't, either, about how NS would or even could plausibly reach 6 if S were to reopen with your suggested double.

As it happens, I think the N hand has a borderline direct 3 on the basis of the K10 of spades and the stiff heart both being upgradable values. I suspect many, including Andy, would see 3 as 'clear' rather than borderline, but I am a conservative bidder by inclination.

Over 3, the South hand grows up significantly. The stiff club and the 2 Aces are huge, and it is fairly easy to see decent minimums on which slam is excellent. Exactly how the auction proceeds is not clear, but I can see starting with an ambiguous cue of 3, marking time, and following N's 3 with 4 and we may be on our way.

So if the notion is 'assign the responsibility' for missing slam: it is North all the way as far as I can see.

I don't even know that starting with a double, in the OP situation, necessarily even gets us to game. N bids what? 2? The same call he'd make on Qx xx AJ10xxx KQx?

Now, I happen to think that S should take another call and that N will, on the actual hand, bid game, but I think it an error to focus the discussion of this hand on S.
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Posted 2013-December-16, 12:11

After the double of 2 I expect it to go

2 - 3 and on a good day
4 - 4

and on a really good day 6 is possible but missing game is definitely not on decent fitting hands.

I guess south could be inspired enough to bid 5 over a 4 continuation (it looks like a better game than 4 over jogs ill fitting construction) and get raised here but I am seldom (as in never?) that sharp.

With the south hand I only had game ambitions and don't see a problem with focusing them on spades AFTER finding out whether partner has 2 of them at the 2 level which you can only discern by starting with a double....and I'm only inviting after that so 6 is only remotely in play.
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