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sac or pass?

Poll: Your bid? (21 member(s) have cast votes)

Your bid?

  1. p (15 votes [71.43%])

    Percentage of vote: 71.43%

  2. X (4 votes [19.05%])

    Percentage of vote: 19.05%

  3. 4NT (2 votes [9.52%])

    Percentage of vote: 9.52%

  4. 5D (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  5. 5H (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  6. anything else (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

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#1 User is offline   gwnn 

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  Posted 2006-December-03, 06:45

1♣*-2♠-p**-4♠
p-p-?

* =15+unbal/16+bal
** =0-5 any, (obviously NF)

Scoring: XIMP


edit: reversed bal and unbal. not that it would matter
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Posted 2006-December-03, 07:44

You might have upgraded your hand on the previous round (or might nor, I'm not saying you made the wrong bid). Now you must pass.

Peter
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Posted 2006-December-03, 08:01

Kx of spades is not enough to induce me to double them. pass.
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Posted 2006-December-03, 10:37

The decision is between double and pass, not sacrifice or pass. Against opponents who might be on a 4-3 fit in this auction ("always bid 2x against a strong club"), I would double. Ok I may be exaggerating, but down 3 would certainly be possible against some. Against sane opponents, I would probably pass.
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Posted 2006-December-03, 20:51

:P Pass. Sounds like the high cards are about evenly split, so we probably (to put it mildly) have no makable game contract to protect.

Can we beat them? Competent opponrnts may have bid a reasonable game.

Will I be surprised to go plus 150? Not particularly.
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Posted 2006-December-04, 06:44

Yea, you're absolutely right. At the moment 4NT seemed to me like a good bid. Next time I'll think again before trying to "sac" opposite my strong strong p (and posting obvious situations as polls). I heard them bidding to make. But that's no reason to assume they WILL.

4♠-1=+50
5♥x-1=-100

+50>-100

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Posted 2006-December-04, 07:54

Agree with Peter. If you want to bid, do it while you're still at a reasonable safe level.

Btw, as it happens there were 19 total tricks. So bidding would have been right if either contract makes and the other was two down. But it could have been worse.
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