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LM Pairs - Day 1 - Hand 2 Lie about Stayman?

#21 User is offline   pclayton 

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Posted 2008-July-21, 12:23

Partner had:

♠AKQTx ♥xxxx ♦xx ♣xx

Our auction went:

1NT - 2♣
2♦! - 3♥! (smolen)
4♠

Over 2♦ partner had the option of bidding 2♠ which shows 5♠ and invitational values.

I respect a lot of the posters on this thread. I also asked some very good players here and had some votes for 2♦. Maybe it depends somewhat on your system. I'm not to worried about partner having shape. If partner is 4♠ and 5+ minor, he will bid 3 minor over 2♦. Granted it will be impossible to back into spades now, but with all of my strength in the outside suits, 3NT may play better anyway. If partner has a more routine 4432, is everyone sure they want to play in spades? Finally, this was a MP problem, so apologies if anyone confused it for a bridge problem.

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Posted 2008-July-21, 12:52

I'd bid the hand the same as the LOLs at the club.
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Posted 2008-July-21, 19:47

I open 1m, and want to table this hand.

If 1NT, I don't lie about a major so 2S, and hope we're not mirrored.
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Posted 2008-July-22, 03:45

kfay, on Jul 20 2008, 12:02 AM, said:

I think if you're not bidding 1NT...2♠ you're thinking way too hard.

Agree with this.
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