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Adequate Solvers Problem 11 Finding the best part-score

#1 User is offline   Echognome 

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Posted 2005-November-21, 17:59

Scoring: IMP


Almost every south will open 1♠. Those that playing a forcing NT might have a difficult time on this board after south bids 2♣ (better minor). The danger of showing the hearts, is that it will often show a 6 card suit and 2♠ might be a better contract with 2 card support (when south could have 0 or 1 hearts). However the modern game leads to modern gadgets and some will find 2♥, which is the best contract.

Many will respond with a non-forcing 1NT and that's where they will play. At imps, it's certainly a good contract and will make.
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Posted 2005-November-21, 18:11

1♠:1N for us. North is about a point shy of a 2♥ response, which would have fetched a single raise.
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Posted 2005-November-21, 18:24

Simple boring auction

Dealer bids 1♥ (showing 4+ Spades)
Responder bids 1NT, showing a balanced hand

In theory, responder could have chosen a natural and non-forcing 2♥ response, but I prefer to describe the balanced nature of the hand...
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Posted 2005-November-21, 18:27

This was an easy hand for us but somewhere out there is the opposite hand on which we would miss the best contract.

Our auction:

1NT 2♦
2♥
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Posted 2005-November-21, 18:33

1S-1NT
Pass

As noted on Board 7 our 2♣ response to a major includes all the “strong” versions of found in standard forcing 1NT and our jump shifts to 1♠ show invitational hands with suit bid. So our 1NT is only “semi-forcing”. Opener with balanced hand, weak five card suit, spread values in the other suit, frequently will pass. This is what happened here. 2♥ is a good contract, but 1NT is a fair one too.
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Posted 2005-November-21, 20:39

A boring 1♠-1NT-Pass auction for Elianna and me. I suppose 2♥ is a marginally better partscore.
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Posted 2005-November-22, 09:27

I would had played 3♥ after BART:

1♠-1NT
2♣-2♦
2♥-3♥

What are the chances of 1 loser with xxx opposite AJ9? (asuming opponent will be good enough to duck with KQx)
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Posted 2005-November-22, 09:30

Fluffy, on Nov 22 2005, 05:27 PM, said:

What are the chances of 1 loser with xxx opposite AJ9? (asuming opponent will be good enough to duck with KQx)

Well, unless you know they aren't good enough to go up with the K/Q from KTx/QTx, you couldn't take advantage of the mistake of going up with KQx...

To answer your question: s.th. like 37%.

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Posted 2005-November-22, 16:47

We bid:

1s=1nt
p

1nt=semiforcing
I think partner has a borderline hand, either pass or bid 2c which then I could bid 2D BART which gets us to a 2H contract.
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Posted 2005-November-22, 16:50

Fluffy, on Nov 22 2005, 10:27 AM, said:

I would had played 3♥ after BART:

1♠-1NT
2♣-2♦
2♥-3♥

What are the chances of 1 loser with xxx opposite AJ9? (asuming opponent will be good enough to duck with KQx)

In the version of BART I know 2h only promised 2+h not 3hearts but does deny a good enough hand to bid 3h directly over 2d. Not sure why Fluffy raises 2h to 3h with that responder hand. Perhaps a different version of BART?
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Posted 2005-November-24, 15:29

actually I dunno if its bart, what I use for 2♦ is either a highly unbalanced raise in ♣ or weak 2♠+5♥. 2♥ then shows 3 cards. Althou maybe it can be 2 now I think of it. Maybe I should pass 2♥.
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Posted 2005-November-28, 10:45

We bid 1S-1N(forcing)-2C-2D(bart)-2H-p. This was fairly straight forward given that pard couldn't pass 1N.
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Posted 2005-November-28, 13:56

1N (12-14) - 2♦ - 2♥ - pass.
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Posted 2005-November-29, 13:02

A boring 1♠ - 1NT (semi-forcing) for us.
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