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Posted 2006-January-26, 21:17
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Posted 2006-January-26, 21:31
BPO-007E: 3H
I want partner to declare NT if he has a Diamond stopper. 3S would
express doubts about the Heart suit. I wish that I didn't have to
reserve double for business (I expect someone to suggest double to
show this hand). However, attaching an artificial meaning to this
double gives the opponents a license to steal...
I want partner to declare NT if he has a Diamond stopper. 3S would
express doubts about the Heart suit. I wish that I didn't have to
reserve double for business (I expect someone to suggest double to
show this hand). However, attaching an artificial meaning to this
double gives the opponents a license to steal...
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Posted 2006-January-26, 21:53
I also bid 3H, hoping that partner does not bid 3NT, then I get quite interested in 6C.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.
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Posted 2006-January-26, 22:14
a dissenter with oppositional defiant disorder here.
I selected a 4D bid. I need so little from P for 6 clubs and, at imps, 5C is OK when 3NT also makes. If P has wasted values in diamonds, perhaps I might be able to pitch a major suit loser somewhere. We have at least 11 clubs between us, likely 12. The strategy of a 3H bid is something that just didn't occur to me at the time. Not a bad idea at all, wish that I had thought of it, assuming that the opps now pass.
Perhaps a dbl of 3D should be Thrump (just kidding).
Another mean, rotten hand.
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I selected a 4D bid. I need so little from P for 6 clubs and, at imps, 5C is OK when 3NT also makes. If P has wasted values in diamonds, perhaps I might be able to pitch a major suit loser somewhere. We have at least 11 clubs between us, likely 12. The strategy of a 3H bid is something that just didn't occur to me at the time. Not a bad idea at all, wish that I had thought of it, assuming that the opps now pass.
Perhaps a dbl of 3D should be Thrump (just kidding).
Another mean, rotten hand.
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Posted 2006-January-26, 23:45
Will anyone tell me what would 4♣ be in this sequence. If it is RKC in ♣, I am all for bidding 4♣. The hand is too powerful to languish in 3NT.
Since the meaning of 4♣ was not known, the only options left were 5♣ and 6♣. You would have guessed by know what I would choose. 6♣.
Since the meaning of 4♣ was not known, the only options left were 5♣ and 6♣. You would have guessed by know what I would choose. 6♣.
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Posted 2006-January-27, 01:43
4D.
Clearly a splinter and forward going.
Marlowe
Clearly a splinter and forward going.
Marlowe
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Posted 2006-January-27, 04:28
I wouldn't dream of stopping in 3NT on this hand. If partner has nothing wasted in diamonds I expect to be making a slam; if he has the DA in addition a grand could easily be on.
Don't forget partner's 2D bid is very often made on 5-card support - with a 4-card major he bids it, with diamonds well stopped he bids 2NT/3NT. It doesn't sound as if he has 4 diamonds, so he either has 5 clubs or is exactly 3334. I'm just looking forward to dropping the singleton CK offside in my 12-card fit...
Don't forget partner's 2D bid is very often made on 5-card support - with a 4-card major he bids it, with diamonds well stopped he bids 2NT/3NT. It doesn't sound as if he has 4 diamonds, so he either has 5 clubs or is exactly 3334. I'm just looking forward to dropping the singleton CK offside in my 12-card fit...
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Posted 2006-January-27, 05:32
i see no reason to stem the tide of zeroes... 6♣ was my vote
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Posted 2006-January-27, 07:33
3♥ seems a pretty reasonable way forward. There's no way that I'm going to rest in 3NT here.
I can see that 4♦ might be better.
I can see that 4♦ might be better.
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Posted 2006-January-27, 07:40
I chose 4♦ as I would think partner would read 3♥ or 3♠ as being a natural suit. If we're going to slam and partner has xx(x) in ♦'s, this is the only way I can get him interested.
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Posted 2006-January-27, 08:41
luke warm, on Jan 27 2006, 06:32 AM, said:
i see no reason to stem the tide of zeroes... 6♣ was my vote
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Posted 2006-January-27, 08:42
Echognome, on Jan 27 2006, 02:40 PM, said:
I chose 4♦ as I would think partner would read 3♥ or 3♠ as being a natural suit. If we're going to slam and partner has xx(x) in ♦'s, this is the only way I can get him interested.
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Posted 2006-January-27, 09:02
4♦. Don't want to put pard off if he has a stiff heart.
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Posted 2006-January-27, 09:51
4D-WTP?
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Posted 2006-January-27, 10:09
4D.
6♣ is probably the value bid though.
6♣ is probably the value bid though.
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Posted 2006-January-27, 12:09
That's funny. I can't remember what I bid here 
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Posted 2006-January-27, 13:14
4C, to set trump and show slam interest (bypass 3N).
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Posted 2006-January-27, 17:17
HeartA, on Jan 27 2006, 08:14 PM, said:
4C, to set trump and show slam interest (by pass 3N).
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The same here...
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Posted 2006-January-27, 18:07
weird: 4♣ as forcing???? Sorry, I don't get it. 4♣ is an attempt to play the contact in 4♣, not a slam try.
Unless, of course, it is gerber?
Unless, of course, it is gerber?
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Posted 2006-January-28, 04:06
I wanted to play the gerber-direct-king-exclusion convention, where 4C here asks for major suit kings, but I don't think that is yet part of BBO Advanced.
4C forcing would be a good call, but sadly it ain't.
4C forcing would be a good call, but sadly it ain't.
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