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#1 User is offline   H_KARLUK 

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Posted 2009-February-09, 04:34

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4♥   4♠   5♥   ?
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Posted 2009-February-09, 04:47

♠♠♠♠♠♠
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We should always assume 2/1 unless otherwise stated, because:

- If the original poster didn't bother to state his system, that means that he thinks it's obvious what he's playing. The only people who think this are 2/1 players.

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Posted 2009-February-09, 04:54

♠♠♠♠♠ is not enogh.
pass or X is wrong.

Ole is right.
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Posted 2009-February-09, 08:45

agree with roland, you can't bid every grand when they preempt.
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  Posted 2009-February-09, 10:09

Brave souls bid 5NT here. I'll bid 6♠ and be happy to table this.
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Posted 2009-February-09, 10:22

6♠, I'll hang him this time. I'm much more worried about going down here than missing a grand.
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Posted 2009-February-09, 11:03

6 spades.

The tray gets passed back to you

7♥ - Pass - Pass - ?
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Posted 2009-February-09, 11:06

Phil, on Feb 9 2009, 12:03 PM, said:

6 spades.

The tray gets passed back to you

7♥ - Pass - Pass - ?

BLAH! Rethinking. I feel that bidding has something going for it here but if partner is showing the ♥A, which seems most likely, then he's got to start having a pretty huge hand. He might just bid 7♠ on his own with any of these hands. I guess I'd just double and hope (with naive optimism) for 1100.

Agree with 6♠ originally.
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Posted 2009-February-09, 13:12

Phil, on Feb 9 2009, 07:03 PM, said:

6 spades.

The tray gets passed back to you

7♥ - Pass - Pass - ?

♠♠♠♠♠♠♠

Not even close.
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Posted 2009-February-09, 15:12

keylime, on Feb 10 2009, 05:09 AM, said:

Brave souls bid 5NT here. I'll bid 6♠ and be happy to table this.

Very brave since they will not like it much when partner raises them to 6NT.

I would bid 6♥.
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Posted 2009-February-09, 15:14

jdonn, on Feb 10 2009, 05:22 AM, said:

6♠, I'll hang him this time. I'm much more worried about going down here than missing a grand.

Partner overcalled vulnerable versus not if you are hanging him then he deserves to be hanged.
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Posted 2009-February-09, 15:17

Cascade, on Feb 9 2009, 04:14 PM, said:

jdonn, on Feb 10 2009, 05:22 AM, said:

6♠, I'll hang him this time. I'm much more worried about going down here than missing a grand.

Partner overcalled vulnerable versus not if you are hanging him then he deserves to be hanged.

Perhaps, but he won't deserve as gruesome a fate as your partner who would "raise" 5NT to 6NT.
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Posted 2009-February-09, 17:23

If partner makes a forcing pass at the 7 level he is marked with ♥A wich is not a great card. 7 spades is a favourite to make still, he should have something akin AQxxxx Ax Axx xx.

do you prefer +1100-1400 or a 60% grand?, It is close, MP scale overweights 1460 vs 1100, I would bid 7.
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Posted 2009-February-10, 03:01

I would double.

I hate the ace of Heart in partners hand, so I take the sure profit.
Maybe I lose to the 7 Spade bidders, but I win against 6 HEart X, 5 Spade and often against 6 Spade.
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Posted 2009-February-10, 03:04

I will mention that IF you knew a 7♥ bid was coming for sure then 6♥ would stand out by a mile last round, so that partner could make a forcing pass or not without regard to heart control.
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