[TylerE]

Scoring: MP

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Auction:

W N E S (you)
(p) - 1♥ - (p) - p(*)
(1♠) - 2♥ - (2♠) - p
(p) - 3♥ - (3♠ )- p
(p) - X - (p) - ??


* - Yes. pass. Probably not the field bid, but just giving the actual auction as it occured

[han]

Wow.

[jdonn]

I agree with Hannie.

[jonottawa]

Okay, I'm pretending that I'm subbing into a tournament and this is what I see. 'Probably not the field bid' is an understatement.

I pass. 4 Diamonds might be right but it also might be very wrong.

[dburn]

I don't mind passing 1♥ - if I didn't, I would bid 1♠ and then I would not have any of these problems.

Now, though, I'd better bid 4♥. After all, if partner can't make that when I put down the ace of spades and the queen of clubs... well, what did he want from my life?

[Codo]

pd did not open a strong one suiter but still bid all alone to 3 Heart (without jumping around) AND doubled 3 Spade? Well mabye he knows, that you need more then 6 HCPs to answer to his opening bid.

I cannot construct a hand which fits into this bidding and my bidding methods, so I would pass and pray.
After all the defence seems to have a good start with some heart tricks.

[brianshark]

Seems a clear pass. Your hand is very defense oriented at this stage. We have a ♠ trick, a possible partial ♣ trick and definite ruffing potential. I can see us getting about 2.5 defensive tricks. Which is 2.5 defensive tricks more than we've promised up to this point. The only problem is p misdefending expecting us to have less than we have.

[whereagles]

Seems a clear dbl.

Pard has done a lot of bidding and this is matchpoins. It's our hand and we must score well.

[helene_t]

Pass. We probably have game but I have no intelligent way of finding out which one.

[brianshark]

whereagles, on Nov 15 2007, 11:00 AM, said:

Seems a clear dbl.

Pard has done a lot of bidding and this is matchpoins. It's our hand and we must score well.

Partner has already doubled without us. We just have to leave it in. Hehe.

[whereagles]

lol ur-ite

[joker_gib]

We must make 5 tricks to defeat 3♠, it seems a lot as the 3♠ bidder is probably short in ♥ (no balancing dbl).

I go for 4♥ !

Alain

[P_Marlowe]

Pass?

As the auction developed, partner has no
right to assume I hold anything, so I am
happy with my sure trump trick, my heart
singleton.
Besides, I dont have any real alternative.

With kind regards
Marlowe

[skjaeran]

Does everyone expect partner to take less than 10 tricks playing in ♥'s here?
I'm bidding 4♥. Not because I'm afraid they'll make 3♠. I don't think we'll score enough defending even if we're beating 3♠ (which isn't a sure thing eventhough I expect one or two down).

[Codo]

skaeran, on Nov 16 2007, 06:03 AM, said:

Does everyone expect partner to take less than 10 tricks playing in ♥'s here?
I'm bidding 4♥. Not because I'm afraid they'll make 3♠. I don't think we'll score enough defending even if we're beating 3♠ (which isn't a sure thing eventhough I expect one or two down).

Yes I expect him to take less then 10 tricks or he misbid his hand.
If he has 8,5 or 9 tricks in his hand with a one suiter, he had bid different. With a overall strong hand he had tried a 2 Club opening. With a very offensive hand he had tried 1 Heart followed by a jump to 3 or even 4 Heart.
(Maybe xx,KQJTxxxx,AK,x)

[gwnn]

I agree with both Han and Harald.

[TylerE]

The other hand was:

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[Codo]

And where is the hand he had during the bidding?

With this hand, what about bidding (all on his own) something like
1 ♥ 2 ♥ 3 ♦ X?

I do understand that you prefer to rebid your strong 6 card major to an even stronger 4 card minor once. But twice? Not in my wildest dreams.

But Han Czaba and Harald seem to have partners who do