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#1 User is online   smerriman 

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Posted 2017-January-08, 21:42


MPs. This worked out badly. Surely a pass is more advisable than 2 here.
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Posted 2017-January-09, 21:11

Perhaps so, but GIB transfers with a 5 card suit 100% of the time. You cannot sensibly pass 2S.
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Posted 2017-January-10, 18:34

View Postiandayre, on 2017-January-09, 21:11, said:

Perhaps so, but GIB transfers with a 5 card suit 100% of the time. You cannot sensibly pass 2S.

True, though GIB described all my possible bids after 2 as 18 total points/inviting game - bidding on in such situations often tends to make the bidding go crazy.
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Posted 2017-January-24, 09:05

View Postiandayre, on 2017-January-09, 21:11, said:

Perhaps so, but GIB transfers with a 5 card suit 100% of the time. You cannot sensibly pass 2S.


In this scenario, would a double of 2 show diamonds or hearts? It would be a good thing to know whether they are stolen bid doubles or penalty doubles.
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Posted 2017-January-24, 15:08

View Postslar, on 2017-January-24, 09:05, said:

In this scenario, would a double of 2 show diamonds or hearts? It would be a good thing to know whether they are stolen bid doubles or penalty doubles.


The double does not show Hearts. Fortunately, GIB does not play one of the worst conventions ever devised, stolen bid doubles.
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Posted 2017-January-24, 18:45

View Postiandayre, on 2017-January-24, 15:08, said:

The double does not show Hearts. Fortunately, GIB does not play one of the worst conventions ever devised, stolen bid doubles.


Then transfers are off and 2 is to play. That is absurd with Qxxx. GIB must pass with that hand.
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Posted 2017-January-25, 18:56

View Postslar, on 2017-January-24, 18:45, said:

Then transfers are off and 2 is to play. That is absurd with Qxxx. GIB must pass with that hand.


Disagree. The actual hand probably lacks sufficient overall strength. Make it a 6-7 count and 2S seems a big improvement over selling out at the 2 level with a known majority of strength.
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Posted 2017-January-31, 19:36

Honestly I don't see this as all that bad. If you have a 2-card suit and a 3-card suit, then the capp player usually has one of those 2 suits. It's a very rare case for for the capp player to have spades. A bid that loses 6 IMPs 15% of the time and wins 2 IMPs the other 85% of the time is still worth doing (definitely not exact values).
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