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#1 User is offline   Mosene 

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Posted 2008-December-13, 22:52

pick up partner - the bidding goes as follows:

P - 1♥ - P - 2♦
2♥??

Partner bid 2 hearts - what does it mean in 2/1?

So it is clear - partner passed to begin with, then came in with 2 hearts after his LHO opened with a heart and RHO bid 2 diamonds.

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Posted 2008-December-13, 23:48

Time for a talk with partner - no idea but I would guess ♠ and ♣'s
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Posted 2008-December-14, 00:43

♠ and ♣ indeed.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2008-December-14, 08:30

♠+♣, but I would expect the clubs to be better than the spades on average.
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Posted 2008-December-14, 10:37

thanks all. Just wanted a sanity check:

FYI - partner had

♠XX
♥KQJ10X
♦X
♣KJXXX

I had -

♠KXXXXXXX
♥XX
♦XXXX
♣X

What would you bid? (assuming partner actually has his bid - which I did, despite smelling trouble)
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Posted 2008-December-14, 11:20

If I held that hand I wouldn't assume partner had ♠&♣. I'd bid 2♠.I'd bid 4 if I expected partner to have ♠&♣.

View Postwyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


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Posted 2008-December-14, 11:39

2♠, smelling trouble due to the auction and the 15 cards :)
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Posted 2008-December-14, 11:46

Hi,

You can rule out natural, since he is a passed hand,
well maybe not, but if he bids Jxxxxx in this situation,
he is not sane anyway.
So most likely it is spades and clubs, dont ask me, why
he did not make a t/o, in a pick up prtnership peoble
should choose the simplest bid.

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Marlowe
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Posted 2008-December-14, 13:08

Thanks all.

I had 6 spades to the K - not eight :)

I bid 4 spades - thinking that if I bid less and partner really had his bid that would be where we wanted to be. 2 spades probably made sense given the smelly situation - but I couldn't help myself.
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Posted 2008-December-14, 13:39

This would be a much easier auction if I'd just done the natural thing and bid 2♠ over 1♥.
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Posted 2008-December-14, 17:51

Mosene, on Dec 14 2008, 02:08 PM, said:

Thanks all.

I had 6 spades to the K - not eight :)

I bid 4 spades - thinking that if I bid less and partner really had his bid that would be where we wanted to be. 2 spades probably made sense given the smelly situation - but I couldn't help myself.

I was wondering. It is not too often that you face the problem of wgat to do with an eight-card spade fit, having passed the first round.
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Posted 2008-December-15, 03:16

Bidding 2 ♥ with partners hand should be a topic in the water cooler.
It has nothing to do with bridge.
Kind Regards

Roland

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