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#1 User is offline   ewj 

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Posted 2007-January-30, 19:01

Scoring: MP


1D on your left. 1S from p and 3D from RHO.
You bid 3H, LHO bids 5D and this is passed round to you...what do you do?
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Posted 2007-January-30, 19:28

Double, it's matchpoints.

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Posted 2007-January-30, 19:51

5s..very tough I never get these right. Hate to defend with a void. Pard bid 1s on an opening hand if I hold these spade cards but 5s still may be wrong but.....
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Posted 2007-January-30, 20:01

"5s..very tough I never get these right."

Well, neither do I, but that's why we are displaying our expertise in the Forums rather than the Bermuda Bowl B)

Peter
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Posted 2007-January-30, 20:07

ewj, on Jan 30 2007, 09:01 PM, said:

Scoring: MP


1D on your left. 1S from p and 3D from RHO.
You bid 3H, LHO bids 5D and this is passed round to you...what do you do?

5♠, expecting a make, possibly with an overtrick
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Posted 2007-January-30, 21:02

pbleighton, on Jan 30 2007, 09:01 PM, said:

"5s..very tough I never get these right."

Well, neither do I, but that's why we are displaying our expertise in the Forums rather than the Bermuda Bowl B)

Peter

Well now that I thought about this hand I am changing my bid to 5H and hope pard has:

Axxxxx...AK...xx....Jxx

I do think partner has long spades, opening hcp and small D.

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Posted 2007-January-30, 21:20

DBL. Any other bids put all eggs in one basket. Many good things may happen after my dbl.

Pd may covert it to 5H/5S if he has some heart fit and long spade.

Of if he has defensive cards pd can pass .
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Posted 2007-January-30, 21:55

pbleighton, on Jan 30 2007, 09:01 PM, said:

"5s..very tough I never get these right."

Well, neither do I, but that's why we are displaying our expertise in the Forums rather than the Bermuda Bowl :)

Peter

yes,i agree u, we did better than the player who act on the Bermuda Bowl usually.
the reason is we post through our pondering but they are not .under rule,at most 3min's they use on the table .

the first puzzle in this conundrum is 3♥ overcall.
did u agree 3♥ is semi-foring and it's underbid now?
what is ur range of 3♥?

:D :o ;) :D B) :P :P :)

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Posted 2007-January-30, 22:16

The 3h bidder is an unpassed hand.....3H must be forcing one round if the next opp passes.
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Posted 2007-January-31, 00:38

mike777, on Jan 31 2007, 02:16 PM, said:

The 3h bidder is an unpassed hand.....3H must be forcing one round if the next opp passes.

Partner has overcalled. Many play that 3H is NOT forcing. Incidentally, I disagree with the H bid and would have made a fsj or a S raise if the former was not available.
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Posted 2007-January-31, 00:46

wow ok...but it seems to play 3h as nonforcing over a weak 3d bid by rho is tough bridge.....I bet many is defined as less than 5000 pairs out of millions? I would call that very few?
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Posted 2007-January-31, 04:48

3H was forcing
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Posted 2007-January-31, 05:48

Dbl. If pard starts with a trump, where are their tricks coming from?
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Posted 2007-January-31, 05:53

Double

Good defence and uncertain prospects at the five level.
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Posted 2007-January-31, 06:05

5♥
If I have a choice between to suits, i prefer to have the weaker suit as trump, and the
stronger suit as source of tricks.
So i prefer to play ♥ over ♠.
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Posted 2007-January-31, 08:03

Double and take my plus.
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Posted 2007-January-31, 08:21

The opps own the diamonds. All I need is the ♠A and an outside card (and no handling nightmares).

Pard made an overcall at adverse vulnerability. Is this too much to ask?

So 5♠ for me.

By the way, 3♥ understates this hand. Much prefer a fit jump.
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Posted 2007-January-31, 09:13

the 2nd forcal question is why west jump 5♦?
in MP,it should utterly be punished by opps,minus 300 is terrible if they no game.
does he have a typical hand (1=1=7=4) or not?

the 3rd detail is pass from 1♠ overcaller ,did u agree it's a forcing bid?especially on MP.

the 4th difficulty is the problem of slam,does it have zero possibility?
in deed?

:D :) :) :) :P

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Posted 2007-January-31, 10:16

whereagles, on Jan 31 2007, 06:48 AM, said:

Dbl. If pard starts with a trump, where are their tricks coming from?

Passing was the winning action.

x
KJx
AJ9xx
xxxx


Axxx
A
QTxxxxx
x

I doubled...and they took their 13 top tricks on the non club lead :D
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Posted 2007-January-31, 10:21

Pass, unless we play forward-doubles in this situation in which case I have to double to catter for partner's penalty pass.
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