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#1 User is offline   TylerE 

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Posted 2009-August-17, 17:43

Scoring: MP

(1♥) - X - (3♣ [Bergen, 7-9]) - ?

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Posted 2009-August-17, 17:47

Yes, bid game. I see the doubleton heart and the form of scoring, but when game is a favorite opposite as little as ♠Axxx ♥xx ♦xxxx ♣Axx it would be cowardly in the extreme not to bid it here.
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Posted 2009-August-17, 18:01

4♠ for sure for me..perhaps it makes..perhaps it is an advance sac.

It really seems to be too committal to pass out 4♥ if opener bids it anyhow, so I'll bid it right now. One hopes PD can count high card points around the table to some extent and that he realizes I am bidding on distribution.
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Posted 2009-August-17, 18:19

There is still a bonus isn't there?
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Posted 2009-August-17, 18:28

Yes, 4S here.
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Posted 2009-August-17, 18:51

At matchpoints I would just bid 3S.

Edit - I should say: at matchpoints I would just try to stay with the field. I suspect the field action is 3S, though in a more aggressive field it may be right to bid 4.
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Posted 2009-August-17, 19:35

looks like an auto 4♠ to me.
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Posted 2009-August-17, 19:41

A direct 4♠ seems clear enough.
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Posted 2009-August-17, 19:54

quiddity, on Aug 17 2009, 07:51 PM, said:

At matchpoints I would just bid 3S.

Edit - I should say: at matchpoints I would just try to stay with the field.  I suspect the field action is 3S, though in a more aggressive field it may be right to bid 4.

not sure what field would be with me if I bid 3s.....any field I can think of would somehow end up in 4S.
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Posted 2009-August-17, 20:14

4♠. Not close at all, as others have said.
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Posted 2009-August-17, 23:35

aguahombre, on Aug 17 2009, 08:54 PM, said:

quiddity, on Aug 17 2009, 07:51 PM, said:

At matchpoints I would just bid 3S.

Edit - I should say: at matchpoints I would just try to stay with the field.  I suspect the field action is 3S, though in a more aggressive field it may be right to bid 4.

not sure what field would be with me if I bid 3s.....any field I can think of would somehow end up in 4S.

Agreed. I also don't know what this obsession with bidding the same as the field - if it's the right bid to bid 4♠, but everyone is in 3♠, then why not take the free matchpoints!
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Posted 2009-August-18, 00:04

I don't see this as a problem. 4S looks clear.
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Posted 2009-August-18, 02:30

4 spades even without the 4th club
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