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Free bid shouldn't be forcing for overcalling of passed seat

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Posted 2016-November-17, 02:02



See the definition of overcalling 2♥.
2♥ says " Free bid - 5+♥，11-hcp，11-12TPs, forcing"
Would here "Free bid" be a forcing bid?
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Posted 2016-November-17, 11:10

"Free bid" means "I could have passed and you would have had another call, you know, but I didn't". Frequently (more frequently in the Ancient days of 1950) this means "so take it that I actually want to make this call, and have more than I would have if there was no intervening call." It's not necessarily forcing (like here, I wouldn't expect it to be forcing).

Here, you could have passed and bid 2♥ after the reopening double, which would have shown less. But you didn't. And GIB knows that.
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