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Am I Going Crazy Part 2

Poll: Am I Going Crazy (18 member(s) have cast votes)

What's Your Call

  1. Pass (5 votes [27.78%])

    Percentage of vote: 27.78%

  2. Double (1 votes [5.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.56%

  3. 5 Spades (12 votes [66.67%])

    Percentage of vote: 66.67%

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#1 User is offline   eagles123 

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Posted 2014-September-05, 16:11

System = acol 3 Wk 2s
Scoring = Imps
Partner = Me (but first time partnership)


what do you bid and why?

Thanks,

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Posted 2014-September-05, 16:40

It's not my turn.
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Posted 2014-September-05, 16:51

sorry edited
"definitely that's what I like to play when I'm playing standard - I want to be able to bid diamonds because bidding good suits is important in bridge" - Meckstroth's opinion on weak 2 diamond
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Posted 2014-September-05, 17:10

I would have bid 4H splinter on the previous round.
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Posted 2014-September-05, 19:04

5. Too shapely to give up on it.
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Posted 2014-September-05, 19:17

Pass for me. Every contract at the 5 level could be -3 or even -4.

I also should probably abstain because I think 4 is just gross. You opened this because it's a two suiter, show your second suit - a simple application of the MTBTMRYH principle.
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Posted 2014-September-05, 19:51

I would have bid 4 my previous turn.

Having done so, I can pass in good conscience since partner has a bid.

Not having done so, I am a little worried that partner takes me for being more balanced than I am, but I think I really have to pass.

Also, what was North's double? A beginner's failure to pre-empt properly the first time?
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Posted 2014-September-06, 06:13

5. Assuming 3 showed support, and given that this is Acol so I'd expect 4 cards, I expect to make this.

I'm more worried about missing slam: AQxx from P and the likely stiff is prob just about enough to make it odds-on given the bidding. Like others, I'd have bid something different on the way to this point, though. Too late now.
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Posted 2014-September-07, 20:33

One more vote for "you needed to bid 4C last time, but since you didn't, 5S now."
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Posted 2014-September-08, 01:21

I might have preferred 3 last time. It won't help much with slam bidding but a lead is prob worth an extra trick in defence, maybe two.
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Posted 2014-September-08, 09:33

Pass - partner is still there and free to bid (or double).

Nobody seems to be questioning the 1 spade opening bid. There must be a case for passing initially. We all have plenty of gadgets to allow us to compete on two-suited hands, if that is appropriate. My experience is that you can describe your hand quicker and more accurately by starting with a pass. (particularly as you own the spade suit).
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Posted 2014-September-08, 09:37

The spade bid should be fine. The hand becomes a monster if there's a spade fit across (as it happens).
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Posted 2014-September-08, 11:39

This hand will rarely shine if p does not have spade support so it seems
much better and safer to open 1s. But I freely admit I do not see why no
4h splinter round 2 (3h 4c could both be natural and we do not want p to
thinking their KQ of hearts as useful and bidding 4c seems like wasting
space).

5s

I have sort of boxed myself into a corner since I failed to splinter so since
I expect to go down more than one only rarely it seems to make sense to push
one more round (as long as the 3d bid was a spade raise that is).
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Posted 2014-September-08, 11:43

My feeling was

1- I also disliked partners bidding on the previous round

2 - I definitely thought she should have bid 5s here rather than pass which she actually chose. The reason is that imo pass is forcing and P is just gonna make the wrong choice way too often

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Posted 2014-September-08, 16:13

I don't know why people are talking about going down - I would put 5 heavily odds on to make, whereas I have no idea if 5 is down 2 or up 2.
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