[kgr]

Scoring: IMP

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Your RHO deals and passes.
You play Majors 5 and Muiderberg. Do you open 2H (weak, 5 card H and 4+minor)?

[Blofeld]

No; 2♥ will almost never get us into ♣s when it's right.

If I open now it will be some number of clubs. Perhaps 3 or 4, bidding 4NT over LHOs 4♠, perhaps 5 to make them guess as much as possible.

The alternative is to pass and hope to come in later. I'll be happy doing this, and it's likely to describe my hand better, and I may avoid getting too high in some misfit hands. Against that it gives the opponents more room to explore. But we are second seat; there's no guarantee this is the opponents' hand.

I think I pass. But I'm not sure what's best (just sure that 2♥ isn't!), and if you ask me again in the morning I may say something different.

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

since we are talking about a 2H bid,
that shows 5-4, I pass,
intending to show this hand later, which
has to be 6-5 at least.

With kind regards
Marlowe

[neilkaz]

5-7 distribution so I prefer to pass and then when I come in later PD should know that the emphesis is on clubs for any 2 suited Q bid I make or any actions where I bid one suit and then the pther if we aren't too high.

[kgr]

I decided to open 2H (5 card H and 4+minor and weak)
2H-2NT-3H-4H
2NT of partner asked minor + strength
3H: minor is clubs and 8-10 pts
Opps had 6-5 in Spades and points 10-10 and didn't bid. We made 4H+1
Kx
Kxx
Jxxx
AKxx

[the hog]

I don't open 2H. If I opened, I would prefer 5C. On this hand I pass and wait.

[Codo]

I open 2 Heart. The risk to come in too late is too high and xyz club is too unilateral.
I will rebid my clubs after my opps are in X spade to show the extra length.

[lowerline]

kgr, on Oct 14 2006, 06:06 PM, said:

Scoring: IMP

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Your RHO deals and passes.
You play Majors 5 and Muiderberg. Do you open 2H (weak, 5 card H and 4+minor)?

Muiderberg can handle 5-4, 5-5 and 5-6. You have a 5-7 and you are vulnerable in 2nd position. Why would you want to preempt partner with a hand he will never expect?

Another thing I don't understand is why a Muiderberg-opener would want to show his point range? If you want to open Muiderberg on distributions like these, you should be able to tell partner that you have 6crd minor on the side. I used to play the 3H rebid as a 5-6 with clubs. Points and distribution are not the same. What will you do when partner bids 6NT?

Steven