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How many hearts (Acol style)

#41 User is offline   gwnn 

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Posted 2008-November-14, 18:20

Driving to the 5 level with no further consultation with partner after a non-specific limit raise should happen so rarely that it shouldn't be discussed I think (admittedly it helps to know what are your partnership's 2 level openers' criteria).
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Posted 2008-November-14, 23:43

Thanks. I was trying to distinguish 2/1 with other unlimited opener systems (the thread itself is acol-related). What you say makes some sense when contrasting with precision. That said, I suspect that most instances of going down in 5 result from a clear error of judgement more than systemic weakness.
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Posted 2008-November-15, 00:52

mikestar, on Nov 14 2008, 05:19 PM, said:

Glad to. The #1 thing that can go wrong by making the limit raise is that partner bids 4♥ off one. The #2 thing is that partner passes and 3♥ is down one. Neither of these contingencies are affected by the system choice.

Not true. (Hint: look at the thread title, or maybe even the post that started this thread.)

In fact, I wonder how many of the posters ignored how playing Acol should influence this decision. (I have no idea, that's why I didn't post...)
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