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xx / Qxxx / xxxxx / xx
(p)-p-(1♥)-2♦-
(p)-??
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Not *my* best friend...
#2
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Posted 2008-September-24, 15:04
Hi,
I would just bid 3 at this vulnerability, color me yellow!
Ricky
I would just bid 3 at this vulnerability, color me yellow!
Ricky
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Posted 2008-September-24, 15:07
Since I heard the rule that you *always* raise partner when he bids your fivecard I have applied it and never had to regret it.
This will be the exception to the rule.
This will be the exception to the rule.
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Finding your own mistakes is more productive than looking for partner's. It improves your game and is good for your soul. (Nige1)
Finding your own mistakes is more productive than looking for partner's. It improves your game and is good for your soul. (Nige1)
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Posted 2008-September-24, 15:09
3♦ dude.
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Posted 2008-September-24, 16:40
I *want* to bid 4♦...
But perhaps r/w, and no singletons, discretion, etc...
OK, 3♦ for me, but I still kind of like 4♦.
But perhaps r/w, and no singletons, discretion, etc...
OK, 3♦ for me, but I still kind of like 4♦.
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-September-24, 17:06
pass
when you have nothing, you either preempt or pass. the heat is wrong to preempt with this crap.
it is not that 3♦ will go for the magic 200, undoubled, because it probably won't. but there is a good chance that partner will not be through bidding if you raise him, and you have negative defence if he doubles them, and your only offence comprises 3rd round ruffs... you have a working zero count!
bridge is a partnership game, and your partner is allowed... indeed supposed... to make bidding decisions based on the values you show.
you can always pass and bid 3♦ at your next call if appropriate.
yes, this may let them find their spade fit, with rho being too weak to make a negative double, but LHO is probably about to double 3♦ anyway.
i was too lazy to use the shift key on this post
when you have nothing, you either preempt or pass. the heat is wrong to preempt with this crap.
it is not that 3♦ will go for the magic 200, undoubled, because it probably won't. but there is a good chance that partner will not be through bidding if you raise him, and you have negative defence if he doubles them, and your only offence comprises 3rd round ruffs... you have a working zero count!
bridge is a partnership game, and your partner is allowed... indeed supposed... to make bidding decisions based on the values you show.
you can always pass and bid 3♦ at your next call if appropriate.
yes, this may let them find their spade fit, with rho being too weak to make a negative double, but LHO is probably about to double 3♦ anyway.
i was too lazy to use the shift key on this post
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Posted 2008-September-24, 20:38
mikeh, on Sep 24 2008, 11:06 PM, said:
pass
when you have nothing, you either preempt or pass. the heat is wrong to preempt with this crap.
when you have nothing, you either preempt or pass. the heat is wrong to preempt with this crap.
Yeah.
"Pass is your friend" - my brother in law - who likes to bid a lot.
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Posted 2008-September-24, 20:54
AlternaG, on Sep 24 2008, 04:01 PM, said:
r/w MPs
xx / Qxxx / xxxxx / xx
(p)-p-(1♥)-2♦-
(p)-??
xx / Qxxx / xxxxx / xx
(p)-p-(1♥)-2♦-
(p)-??
with balanced, semibalanced hand and unfav vul I will pass.
lets give pard:
Axx...xx....AKJTx..Kxx
we can still bid 3d perhaps later.
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Posted 2008-September-24, 21:19
Would bid 3♦. But with three spades, I would pass.
When Senators have had their sport
And sealed the Law by vote,
It little matters what they thought -
We hang for what they wrote.
And sealed the Law by vote,
It little matters what they thought -
We hang for what they wrote.
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Posted 2008-September-25, 05:24
AlternaG, on Sep 24 2008, 04:01 PM, said:
r/w MPs xx / Qxxx / xxxxx / xx
(p)-p-(1♥)-2♦-
(p)-??
(p)-p-(1♥)-2♦-
(p)-??
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Posted 2008-September-26, 10:57
I bid 4♦ at the table, and it went for 500 (and a bottom, in particular). I thought 3♦ was too forward going, and I didn't want to pass with 5c support.
Then I couldn't tell if I was resulting when I started questioning the 4♦ bid.
Thanks for your comments.
Then I couldn't tell if I was resulting when I started questioning the 4♦ bid.
Thanks for your comments.
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