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Bidding Plan

Poll: Name Your Poison (42 member(s) have cast votes)

Name Your Poison

  1. Double (intending to rebid Spades) (5 votes [11.90%])

    Percentage of vote: 11.90%

  2. Double (intending to rebid NT) (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  3. Overcall 1S (33 votes [78.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 78.57%

  4. Overcall 1NT (3 votes [7.14%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.14%

  5. Other (Please specify) (1 votes [2.38%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.38%

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#1 User is offline   hrothgar 

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Posted 2008-February-05, 09:35

You hold

♠ AKQ75
♥ A75
♦ T7
♣ K64

RHO opens 1♣.

What's your bidding plan?
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Posted 2008-February-05, 09:44

i overcall 1♠. I do not object to a 1NT overcall instead.
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Posted 2008-February-05, 10:13

1S. I do object to a 1N overcall :)
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Posted 2008-February-05, 10:15

1♠ for me.

Then I looked at the poll and 1NT, being suggested, became attractive. But my initial thought was 1♠ so that's what I'm bidding. I couldn't be swayed.
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Posted 2008-February-05, 10:37

1♠, and I hate 1NT a lot, to me it's a clear error.
Please let me know about any questions or interest or bug reports about GIB.
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Posted 2008-February-05, 10:43

1♠, 1NT on this hand is not my style.
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Posted 2008-February-05, 10:51

1♠ or the double / x♠'s route. I don't have a strong preference really.

Personally I think this hand is better than a 16 count.

A 1N overcall looks kind of weird to me.
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Posted 2008-February-05, 11:16

1♠ for me. Not close to x..♠. Too much potential for 1NT.
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Posted 2008-February-05, 12:17

1♠ a good near maximum overcall. I was about to say maximum but I have been experimenting with better and better maximums for one-level overcalls mainly with success lately.

1NT seems wrong to me with only one club stopper and great spades. If my suits were something like ♠KJxxx and ♣AQJ maybe with a compensating value elsewhere then I would be happier with 1NT.
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Bidding is an estimation of probabilities SJ Simon

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Posted 2008-February-05, 12:21

jdonn, on Feb 5 2008, 11:37 AM, said:

1♠, and I hate 1NT a lot, to me it's a clear error.

agreed: the worst kind of hand-hogging pseudo-expert call :o
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Posted 2008-February-05, 12:30

1S, again looking forward to the story.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2008-February-05, 13:43

1♠

I don't hate 1NT as much as most of the other posters, in fact I don't mind it at all.
1NT is often a better overcall than 1M when the hand is in range.

On this particular hand the factor swaying me to 1♠ is that we have no lead value at all. (If game is on,) by overcalling 1♠ we can end in 4♠ when partner has a shortage, but sometimes we may be able to play 3NT from partner's hand.
That's impossible. No one can give more than one hundred percent. By definition that is the most anyone can give.
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Posted 2008-February-05, 13:49

1♠.
But I can live with 1NT and X + spades.
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Posted 2008-February-05, 14:00

Hi,

1S, 1NT being the alternative.

I used to play, that overcalls are limited in strength,
the upper limit was somewhere around 15HCP.
It did work, but maybe thats just my memory, and I
wont feel happy, if I have to introduce spades on the
3 level.

With kind regards
Marlowe
With kind regards
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Posted 2008-February-05, 14:33

My plan is to show my club stopper if partner makes any encouraging bid. (After I have overcalled 1♠, of course.)
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Posted 2008-February-05, 16:28

cherdano, on Feb 6 2008, 09:33 AM, said:

My plan is to show my club stopper if partner makes any encouraging bid. (After I have overcalled 1♠, of course.)

One stopper might not be enough. If I overcall spades and rebid 2NT or 3NT partner might expect something more like ♣AQx or ♣KJT. Perhaps a better route would be to overcall spades and then make a directional asking cue-bid. This might be more difficult if partner raises spades where a cue could be misunderstood as being more interested simply in some greater number of spades.
Wayne Burrows

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Bidding is an estimation of probabilities SJ Simon

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Posted 2008-February-09, 01:52

B) 1♠.
Seems like the obvious bid. No doubt, some other call works better on the actual hand (else why is it here?), but absent some (unexpected) brilliant analysis, I have to go with what I'm looking at in front of me.
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Posted 2008-February-09, 04:53

X, then 2C over 1H, 1D. Then 2S.
Get 2H=5cH rebid =GREAT;
Get 1N/2N=C-stop rebid =GREAT;
Else = "I have spades" and 16 prime points. Partner hasn't helped this time.
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