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LHO opens 1NT and partner bids 3S, LHO passes. Your call.
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Posted 2007-September-09, 11:53
How do you like this hand:
LHO opens 1NT and partner bids 3S, LHO passes. Your call.
LHO opens 1NT and partner bids 3S, LHO passes. Your call.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.
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Posted 2007-September-09, 12:17
edit:
on second thought I'm not very sure
on second thought I'm not very sure
... and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic.
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Posted 2007-September-09, 13:19
4♠. Should have a chance.
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Posted 2007-September-09, 13:36
3S at favorable in my partnerships can be real crap, so I will pass and not hang partner. If we miss game, next hand.
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Posted 2007-September-09, 14:40
I liked the hand before the bidding started... 
I don't rate partner's chances in 4♠ here as good, so raising is out for me.
The alternatives are pass and 4♥. I do love those game bonuses at IMP's so I'll have a try at 4♥. If partner is 2-1 in my suit's I need them to be divided 3-2 and 3-3. Not that great a game. But I'll give it a shot. Even 3♠ might go down too.
I don't rate partner's chances in 4♠ here as good, so raising is out for me.
The alternatives are pass and 4♥. I do love those game bonuses at IMP's so I'll have a try at 4♥. If partner is 2-1 in my suit's I need them to be divided 3-2 and 3-3. Not that great a game. But I'll give it a shot. Even 3♠ might go down too.
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Posted 2007-September-09, 18:55
Gotta bid 4H, we need 2 little hearts and a zero count to make it.
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Posted 2007-September-09, 21:33
I bid 4S and got lucky, partner had AQxxxxx x xxxx xx and 4S was the only making game.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.
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Posted 2007-September-09, 22:40
If they lead a diamond I don't see how we can come close to making 4S. We ruff, play off 3 rounds of clubs pitching a diamond, they ruff and run 2 more diamonds and we have lost 3 tricks without even tackling the trump suit.
4H also looks much better than 4S opposite that hand (5C is not possible to get to so...).
I think bidding 4S here is a huge mistake, our hand does not play well for spades. I am very confident that if someone did a simulation on this it would confirm that 4H is miles ahead of 4S.
4H also looks much better than 4S opposite that hand (5C is not possible to get to so...).
I think bidding 4S here is a huge mistake, our hand does not play well for spades. I am very confident that if someone did a simulation on this it would confirm that 4H is miles ahead of 4S.
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Posted 2007-September-10, 02:46
I agree.
I prefer to play this in 4♥
I prefer to play this in 4♥
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Posted 2007-September-10, 04:26
They never give me those hands!
I'd bid 4♥ after finding it has to be natural.
I'd bid 4♥ after finding it has to be natural.
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Posted 2007-September-10, 08:09
I think 4S may be hard to make because I gave a hand with 14 cards. The actual hand had a heart void.
I think you are right in that 4H will make much more often than 4S.
I think you are right in that 4H will make much more often than 4S.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.
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Posted 2007-September-10, 09:04
Jlall, on Sep 9 2007, 11:40 PM, said:
If they lead a diamond I don't see how we can come close to making 4S. We ruff, play off 3 rounds of clubs pitching a diamond, they ruff and run 2 more diamonds and we have lost 3 tricks without even tackling the trump suit.
4H also looks much better than 4S opposite that hand (5C is not possible to get to so...).
I think bidding 4S here is a huge mistake, our hand does not play well for spades. I am very confident that if someone did a simulation on this it would confirm that 4H is miles ahead of 4S.
4H also looks much better than 4S opposite that hand (5C is not possible to get to so...).
I think bidding 4S here is a huge mistake, our hand does not play well for spades. I am very confident that if someone did a simulation on this it would confirm that 4H is miles ahead of 4S.
I have not run a simulation, and have trouble figuring out the constraints for 3♠... I personally would rarely hold the hand that Hannie's partner had (even if it was changed to be only 13 cards.... was partner 7=1=3=2 or?) I'd have chunkier spades: KQ1098xx or KQJxxxx... I'm not criticizing the 3♠ call at the table... just explaining why I didn't do a simulation.
But I am with the 4♥ bidders, and don't think it is close.
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Posted 2007-September-10, 13:49
Well, the 3♠ was over a 1NT opener, after all... it's not supposed to be on a trash suit 
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