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LHO opens 1♣ and partne overcalls 1♠.
Now 2♣ shows spade support and 2♥ is 9-13 NF. 3♥ is 14+ with "twice rebidable hearts".
With my K-AQxxx-KQxx-Axx I had to chose one of those options. I would like to have either a forcing 2♥ bid or a nebolous 2♣ bid available.
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Response to overcall few options with good hands and no fit
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Posted 2014-September-20, 12:50
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Posted 2014-September-21, 01:47
helene_t, on 2014-September-20, 12:50, said:
LHO opens 1♣ and partne overcalls 1♠.
Now 2♣ shows spade support and 2♥ is 9-13 NF. 3♥ is 14+ with "twice rebidable hearts".
With my K-AQxxx-KQxx-Axx I had to chose one of those options. I would like to have either a forcing 2♥ bid or a nebolous 2♣ bid available.
Now 2♣ shows spade support and 2♥ is 9-13 NF. 3♥ is 14+ with "twice rebidable hearts".
With my K-AQxxx-KQxx-Axx I had to chose one of those options. I would like to have either a forcing 2♥ bid or a nebolous 2♣ bid available.
I hesitate to suggest piling conventional bidding onto GIB, and I don't expect this to be well received by my peers or by GIB developers, but given the choice I would play transfer advances to overcall from the cue bid of opponent's suit up to the suit below overcaller's. 2D on this hand would show 5+ Hearts with no upper limit.
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Psyche (pron. sahy-kee): The human soul, spirit or mind (derived, personification thereof, beloved of Eros, Greek myth).
Masterminding (pron. m
str-mnding) tr. v. - Any bid made by bridge player with which partner disagrees."Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts." 9th battalion, King's own Yorkshire light infantry,
2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"
"I will be with you, whatever". Blair to Bush, precursor to invasion of Iraq
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Posted 2014-September-24, 18:46
We'd all like to have those options available with a hand like this! GIB's methods in this case are completely standard though. I don't ever recall facing this problem at the table, but if I did I suppose I would bid 3NT.
I have never tried transfer advances to overcalls but I would consider doing so.
I have never tried transfer advances to overcalls but I would consider doing so.
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Posted 2014-September-24, 19:40
With most partners I play a new suit as forcing by an unpassed hand. Not for sure a big hand. Could be a lesser hand with tolerance for overcaller's suit.
How bout 3♥ hopefully that's strong not weak!?
Transfer advances are nice, have almost no down-side other than that the general population doesn't play them, so you'll never get it into Gib
How bout 3♥ hopefully that's strong not weak!?
Transfer advances are nice, have almost no down-side other than that the general population doesn't play them, so you'll never get it into Gib
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Posted 2014-September-25, 02:48
steve2005, on 2014-September-24, 19:40, said:
How bout 3♥ hopefully that's strong not weak!?
That's what I did but as I said it shows twice rebiddable hearts. GIB raised with six good spades and a small doubleton hearts. So it didn't work.
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