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Always a bidding problem Can you explain your bid?

Poll: Bid pls:) (39 member(s) have cast votes)

Bid pls:)

  1. pass (21 votes [53.85%])

    Percentage of vote: 53.85%

  2. 1 hearts (7 votes [17.95%])

    Percentage of vote: 17.95%

  3. 2 clubs (1 votes [2.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.56%

  4. dbl (9 votes [23.08%])

    Percentage of vote: 23.08%

  5. other (1 votes [2.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.56%

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#21 User is offline   luke warm 

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Posted 2005-October-08, 17:53

i think i'd have to pass... if i bid 1H or double and partner bids spades, now my club bid looks like a fit (i think)
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Posted 2005-October-08, 19:33

Around here almost everyone uses 2♦ for michaels and 2♣ as natural
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Posted 2005-October-08, 21:03

Free, on Oct 8 2005, 03:10 PM, said:

I play power doubles, no problem here... Dbl!

You have no problem.... yet
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Posted 2005-October-09, 02:51

Hannie, on Oct 9 2005, 04:03 AM, said:

Free, on Oct 8 2005, 03:10 PM, said:

I play power doubles, no problem here...  Dbl!

You have no problem.... yet

Lol, I'd like to see the full hand, so I can give you the next sequence of bids. :D You may well be right, but normally we have a good followup.
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Posted 2005-October-09, 20:16

I voted Double - I like to double whenever I hold 16+, but with my reg partner(s) would pass - we play this as showing 12+
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Posted 2005-October-10, 03:06

I think that dbl is the very bad bid, because then you can't bid your hand in the second turn; i think too that the pass is the better bid, but 1♥ could be other nice bid.
If we bid dbl with this hand....in all other hand when we must bid it...we will be in big difficoult.


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Posted 2005-October-10, 04:02

Fluffy, on Oct 9 2005, 03:33 AM, said:

Around here almost everyone uses 2♦ for michaels and 2♣ as natural

A lot of people in Belgium (and in France I think) also play 2♦ as Michaels and 2♣ as natural.

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Posted 2005-October-10, 05:10

Around where I live at the moment (Germany) they also do this. Every time I have to tell my partner not to do this, sigh...

You lose a natural 2♦ jump overcall and trade it for a 2♣ overcall over a ♣ suit that is more often than not RHO's longest suit, even though it COULD be preparartory.
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Posted 2005-October-10, 05:42

joker_gib, on Oct 10 2005, 10:02 AM, said:

Fluffy, on Oct 9 2005, 03:33 AM, said:

Around here almost everyone uses 2♦ for michaels and 2♣ as natural

A lot of people in Belgium (and in France I think) also play 2♦ as Michaels and 2♣ as natural.

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Playing (1♣)-2♦ as michaels you lose the diamond WJO, one of the most fearsome weapons in today's modern bidding arsenal.
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Posted 2005-October-10, 06:38

I've written a post on this in my blog.
Don't use 1♣ 2♦ as a 2-suiter if 1♣ is natural.

If 1♣ is NOT natural, use something brown-stickerish instead because this is now allowed :)
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