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#1 User is offline   heart76 

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Posted 2017-May-08, 04:14

MPs. Green vs red.
You hold A109872 - xx - Axx - J10.
RHO opens 1S (5+), you pass, LHO passes and your partner doubles. Opener passes.
Do you pass to convert or bid 1NT?
Does the scoring or the vulnerability matter at all?
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Posted 2017-May-08, 04:34

Pass is beyond obvious, although over the past few years I've learned to resist doing a little dance around the table when this happens. If you don't pass here, you might as well give up trying to ever penalise the opposition.

Scoring and vulnerability don't matter at all, but both the scoring method and the vulnerability make pass more attractive.
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Posted 2017-May-08, 06:18

I have 4-5 tricks. My relatively small number of HCPs makes me believe that partner is not too minimal (such as 1444 with 8). It is therefore a likely 1 trick set if we don't have game, or 2+ if we have.
Souvenirs of my maths classes tell me that +200 is better than +1xx and similarly +500 than +4xx. So I pass.
Things will get trickier if responder runs away and partner doubles. At leat will I have 2 trumps and 2 aces (one might get ruffed though).
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Posted 2017-May-08, 06:23

View Postheart76, on 2017-May-08, 04:14, said:

MPs. Green vs red.
You hold A109872 - xx - Axx - J10.
RHO opens 1S (5+), you pass, LHO passes and your partner doubles. Opener passes.
Do you pass to convert or bid 1NT?
Does the scoring or the vulnerability matter at all?

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  • Pass = Penalty. As sci-fi says, vulnerablity and scoring are relevant in so far as they make pass more lucrative and attractive. Problems begin only when LHO starts rescue manoeuvres

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Posted 2017-May-08, 06:41

View Postnige1, on 2017-May-08, 06:23, said:

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  • Pass = Penalty. As sci-fi says, vulnerablity and scoring are relevant in so far as they make pass more lucrative and attractive. Problems begin only when LHO starts rescue manoeuvres


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Posted 2017-May-08, 08:24

If ever there was a clear pass of a takeout double, this is it.

If this were presented as a bidding problem, the question that many would make is whether this should be a lead problem. I want to get trump on the table ASAP, but I don't want to release the Ace. So I would lead the S10.

If LHO runs from 1Sx, I hope partner can double. I will sit.


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Posted 2017-May-08, 18:35

Obvious pass, it satisfies the rule of 9 -- 6 + 2 honors + 1 level contract.
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