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You are playing Precision with your ex-pard and look at (red on red): ♠void ♥KQT8xx ♦xx ♣K6xxx
Pard opens 1♠ and you try 1N (agree? by the way, we don't play 2/1 as GF). Pard tries 2♣ which promises 2+.
Now what?
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Posted 2006-May-05, 10:42
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Posted 2006-May-05, 11:10
Hard to believe 3♥ is undiscussed..but simple things first. Do I agree with 1NT over 1♠? The answer is no. Being vulnerable I am taking the high road and bidding 2♥ with this hand. This is a very good hand.
Having bid 1NT, I am not bidding 2♥, too huge an underbid. I am not passing, as I have game ambition, not 3♣ as that will not get the job done, so I guess here I have to bid 3♥. Better, to start 2♥ imho.
Having bid 1NT, I am not bidding 2♥, too huge an underbid. I am not passing, as I have game ambition, not 3♣ as that will not get the job done, so I guess here I have to bid 3♥. Better, to start 2♥ imho.
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Posted 2006-May-05, 17:38
2♥ for me
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Posted 2006-May-06, 17:33
Since this is precision, the chances of a game are more remote, so I don't feel the need to bid 2♥ over 1♠. Thus 1NT seems fair.
Now I'll bid 4♣.
Now I'll bid 4♣.
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Posted 2006-May-06, 18:30
Having a bit of trouble with the system here. If 2/1 is NOT GF, on what hands may opener rebid 2C on as few as doubleton, and what is the rationale?
That said, I think that there is no possible meaning for 3H other than a big H-C 2-suiter in context.
That said, I think that there is no possible meaning for 3H other than a big H-C 2-suiter in context.
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Psyche (pron. sahy-kee): The human soul, spirit or mind (derived, personification thereof, beloved of Eros, Greek myth).
Masterminding (pron. m
str-mnding) tr. v. - Any bid made by bridge player with which partner disagrees."Gentlemen, when the barrage lifts." 9th battalion, King's own Yorkshire light infantry,
2000 years earlier: "morituri te salutant"
"I will be with you, whatever". Blair to Bush, precursor to invasion of Iraq
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Posted 2006-May-06, 18:59
I think opposite a limited opening, 3C is enough.
However, I'm curious though - did this person become your ex-partner before or after this match?
nickf
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pclayton, on May 6 2006, 02:42 AM, said:
You are playing Precision with your ex-pard.
However, I'm curious though - did this person become your ex-partner before or after this match?
nickf
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Posted 2006-May-07, 11:03
We stopped playing about 2 years ago. It wasn't my intention to play with him on this team, but one of the members wouldn't make himself available, so we had to juggle the partnerships a little.
I bid 2♥ as well and pard passed with: ♠AQ9xx ♥Jx ♦KT9 ♣Axx. At the time, I thought he should have opened a 14-16 1N.
At the other table, his hand (John Swanson) opened 1N playing a 15-17 NT! David Weiss Texas'd with mine. Chris can beat the game with a trump lead and a diamond through, but led the ♣Q. I think game is excellent from his side, but only fair from mine.
I'm not sure what my LHO will lead against 4♥, but against 2 I got the ♣10 so I made an easy 10 tricks.
I think in our old system notes we had 3♥ defined as a splinter for clubs, so I didn't want to risk it. I'm not sure he's going to game anyway, although the scoring dictates he should.
I bid 2♥ as well and pard passed with: ♠AQ9xx ♥Jx ♦KT9 ♣Axx. At the time, I thought he should have opened a 14-16 1N.
At the other table, his hand (John Swanson) opened 1N playing a 15-17 NT! David Weiss Texas'd with mine. Chris can beat the game with a trump lead and a diamond through, but led the ♣Q. I think game is excellent from his side, but only fair from mine.
I'm not sure what my LHO will lead against 4♥, but against 2 I got the ♣10 so I made an easy 10 tricks.
I think in our old system notes we had 3♥ defined as a splinter for clubs, so I didn't want to risk it. I'm not sure he's going to game anyway, although the scoring dictates he should.
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