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#1 User is offline   H_KARLUK 

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Posted 2009-February-10, 17:14

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♠KJ85 ♥73 ♦KJ6542 ♣Q

West dealts and opens 3♥ preemptive. Your partner bids 3NT. Righty pass. May I have your call ?
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Posted 2009-February-10, 17:22

Who jumped? You can't bid fewer NT's than 3 over 3♥. 3NT can be most any hand (wide-ranging), so I pass.

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Posted 2009-February-10, 17:26

Gotta pass, this should be an easy decision. Partner's most likely hand is a strong notrump or so.
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Posted 2009-February-10, 17:31

Pass.
Many hands can bid 3NT, balanced distribution is not garanteed at all.
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Posted 2009-February-10, 19:05

Pass. Let's not try and get too technical when 3NT is most likely going to be our best spot. Pre-empts are annoying but what else can you do.
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Posted 2009-February-11, 11:01

Easy pass. Of course we might belong in game or slam in some other strain. But I think it's odds on that 3NT is our best spot.
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Posted 2009-February-11, 11:14

If I consider anything it's that 5♦ might be better than 3NT. But I rule that thought out in about 0.5 seconds.

Pass.
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Posted 2009-February-11, 12:20

kfay, on Feb 11 2009, 07:14 PM, said:

If I consider anything it's that 5♦ might be better than 3NT.  But I rule that thought out in about 0.5 seconds. 

Pass.

Scoring: MP


It was a regular Club game. I gave 3NT as North. Well I could not find better at that moment. Time was nearly short to finish th round. She jumped to 5♦ less than a second.
I passed.

What would i bid with her hand? Pass for sure. As th room's 99% passed.

When session finished I asked her reason. She said "Pal, distribution was ugly". Ouch, I sealed my lips. I think th good lord still loves me :)
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Posted 2009-February-11, 12:49

3♥ is normal (although some would open 1 or 4♥), 3NT is normal, pass is normal and down 3 is normal. Your partner found the winning call. I congratulate her. She would likely have made 6♦ too if she had been in it.

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Posted 2009-February-11, 17:31

I think 4♥ is normal, and 3♥ decidedly an underbid.

In my dreams, a 4♥ opening leads to 4♠ down two, or 4♥ passed out because North knows what a takeout double looks like and knows that he doesn't have one. In real life, they overreach to 6♦ and make it by ruffing out ♣K.
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