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LM Pairs - Day 1 - Hand 3 How hard will you drive?

#1 User is offline   Echognome 

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Posted 2008-July-19, 12:31

Scoring: MP

(P) - 1♣ - (1♦) - 1♠
(P) - 2♣ - (P) - 2♦
(P) - 2♠ - (P) - ?


You pick up this very powerful hand and to your surprise partner opens the bidding. How do you plan to bid from here?

Side question: How forcing is 2♦?
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Posted 2008-July-19, 12:33

i think 2♦ is a 1RF
I cue 3d and await developments.
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Posted 2008-July-19, 14:31

I think 2♦ is game-forcing, because it makes a nice simple rule. I bid 3♠, with a meaningful look.
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Posted 2008-July-20, 03:18

I would bid 3♠.

For me 2♦ is a one round force only. (I could pass 2♥, 2♠, 2NT or 3♣ after bidding 2♦.) But the combination 2♦+3♠ is clearly GF (After all, 3♠ without 2♦ already shows a good invitational hand as 2♠ (without 2♦) would have shown more than a minimum).

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Posted 2008-July-20, 04:02

Trinidad, on Jul 20 2008, 10:18 AM, said:

For me 2♦ is a one round force only. (I could pass 2♥, 2♠, 2NT or 3♣ after bidding 2♦.) But the combination 2♦+3♠ is clearly GF (After all, 3♠ without 2♦ already shows a good invitational hand as 2♠ (without 2♦) would have shown more than a minimum).

Is 3♠ clearly non-forcing? Since you bid 2♦ you have the new information that partner has something in spades. With invitational values and ♠AQJ10x or ♠QJxxxx, you wouldn't have bid 3♠ over 2♣, but you might well want to now.
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Posted 2008-July-20, 04:09

I guess one way to find out whether 3♠ is forcing is bidding it. Will not take the chance, so will protect partner with 3♦. Not 100% clear to me 3♠ now should be forcing and possibly even less so to partner .
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Posted 2008-July-20, 04:19

Echognome, on Jul 19 2008, 01:31 PM, said:

Scoring: MP

(P) - 1♣ - (1♦) - 1♠
(P) - 2♣ - (P) - 2♦
(P) - 2♠ - (P) - ?


You pick up this very powerful hand and to your surprise partner opens the bidding. How do you plan to bid from here?

Side question: How forcing is 2♦?

not sure but I hope 3d is forcing now :(
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Posted 2008-July-20, 11:25

gnasher, on Jul 20 2008, 06:31 AM, said:

I think 2♦ is game-forcing, because it makes a nice simple rule. I bid 3♠, with a meaningful look.

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Posted 2008-July-20, 12:16

gnasher, on Jul 20 2008, 05:02 AM, said:

Trinidad, on Jul 20 2008, 10:18 AM, said:

For me 2♦ is a one round force only. (I could pass 2♥, 2♠, 2NT or 3♣ after bidding 2♦.) But the combination 2♦+3♠ is clearly GF (After all, 3♠ without 2♦ already shows a good invitational hand as 2♠ (without 2♦) would have shown more than a minimum).

Is 3♠ clearly non-forcing? Since you bid 2♦ you have the new information that partner has something in spades. With invitational values and ♠AQJ10x or ♠QJxxxx, you wouldn't have bid 3♠ over 2♣, but you might well want to now.

I assume you mean: "Is 3♠ -after 2♦- clearly game forcing?"

If you play 2♦ as a 1 round force, it shows at least invitational values. That means that you can bid 2♦ with an invitational hand with 5 spades. You can subsequently pass 2♠, since 2♠ shows a minimum in context. With a nice 14 point hand and 3 spades, partner wouldn't rebid 2♠, since it wouldn't be forcing.

That means that if you take another bid, after opener's 2♠ (which showed a minimum), you are stronger than invitational and, therefore, game forcing.

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Posted 2008-July-20, 12:40

2♦ should be game force. So, I'm bidding 3♠.

3♦, mentioned above, sounds fancy... But to my novice ears, a little too fancy.
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Posted 2008-July-21, 23:29

2S show a minimum with 2 trumps so 3S has to be forcing but my bid is 3D.
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Posted 2008-July-21, 23:32

I would bid 3♠ here.
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