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Let's see how crazy I am...

Poll: Your call: (52 member(s) have cast votes)

Your call:

  1. Pass (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  2. Double (12 votes [23.08%])

    Percentage of vote: 23.08%

  3. 1D (11 votes [21.15%])

    Percentage of vote: 21.15%

  4. 1H (17 votes [32.69%])

    Percentage of vote: 32.69%

  5. 2D (1 votes [1.92%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.92%

  6. 2NT (red suits) (11 votes [21.15%])

    Percentage of vote: 21.15%

  7. Something else (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

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#1 User is offline   awm 

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Posted 2008-October-05, 19:42

Scoring: MP


Partner passes and RHO opens 1♣ (standard). What's your call?
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Posted 2008-October-05, 19:48

Hi,

I think anything but 1H is crazy.

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Posted 2008-October-05, 20:24

1H at IMPs. Will consider 1D at MPs.
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Posted 2008-October-05, 20:51

The_Hog, on Oct 5 2008, 09:24 PM, said:

1H at IMPs. Will consider 1D at MPs.

True, finding major suit fits never matchpoints well!

Ok ok, 1♥ always.
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Posted 2008-October-05, 21:12

I don't think 2NT is crazy, but I bid 1♥, because I have spades.
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Posted 2008-October-05, 21:38

rogerclee, on Oct 5 2008, 10:12 PM, said:

I don't think 2NT is crazy, but I bid 1♥, because I have spades.

I know this often sounds like a strange thing to say, but I'm far more comfortable bidding 1♥ with bad hearts than bidding 2NT with bad hearts.
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Posted 2008-October-05, 23:29

1H for the lead.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

- hrothgar
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Posted 2008-October-06, 01:17

OK, I'll admit it: I'd double.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2008-October-06, 04:06

1 Heart, too many good things can happen.
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Posted 2008-October-06, 04:12

1♥, i don't like any other call
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Posted 2008-October-06, 04:20

I don't know yet whose hand it is, so I start with a double.
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Posted 2008-October-06, 04:31

1♥

Can understand double, though it is not for me, but I don't like anything else.
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-October-06, 05:14

1♥ ; possibly wrong but that what the field will do (I might get a chance to bid diamonds next) . I think dbl is a close second. Not 2NT (will bury spades). 1♦ can work but it is a bit extreme
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Posted 2008-October-06, 05:37

Hi,

It is 1D, X or 2NT.

Out of the question is Pass, 1H, 2D (a very remote possibility).
I think I would go with either 1D or 2NT, most likly with 2NT,
but ask me tomorow and 1D it maybe, I dont like X very well,
but prefer it to all other options.

With kind regards
Marlowe

PS: If you happen to play 2NT as weak or strong, than 2NT is
out, against 2NT speals also the Ace of spades.
On the plus, and if you can bid 2NT in the partnership, 2NT still
keeps hearts in the picture.
With kind regards
Uwe Gebhardt (P_Marlowe)
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Posted 2008-October-06, 09:35

Would open 1♥. Why shouldn't I overcall it?
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Posted 2008-October-06, 09:51

dburn, on Oct 6 2008, 03:35 PM, said:

Would open 1♥. Why shouldn't I overcall it?

I'll echo that comment.

2N, for me, regardless of whether you think this in range or not, is too likely to lose a decent spade fit.

For that reason, dble might initially seem attractive - IMO a 5530 shape, with slightly inadequate hcp, is just enough to consider dble and then bid your suit - but then what do you rebid over spades when it might only be a 4 carder (3 even!) - whichever red suit you pick might bury the other.

So it has got to be a red suit overcall and, as was said, I'd open 1♥, so why not overcall it.

Nick
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Posted 2008-October-06, 10:01

1♥. Move my black suits around and I would 2N.
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Posted 2008-October-06, 11:03

1♥. I don't like 2NT with this, with week hearts and a potential spade fit. And 1♦ is worse.

Double would never enter my mind.
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Posted 2008-October-06, 11:17

Sorry, can't dbl, because I would have no clue what to do if partner bid spades.

1H seems obvious. 2N is OK, too. 1D has merits if they win the contract. 2D and pass are silly.
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Posted 2008-October-06, 19:37

So I'm curious because of the name of the thread. How crazy are (were?) you Adam?
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