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responding with long hearts

Poll: Your bid? (28 member(s) have cast votes)

Your bid?

  1. Pass (5 votes [17.86%])

    Percentage of vote: 17.86%

  2. X (16 votes [57.14%])

    Percentage of vote: 57.14%

  3. 2H (2 votes [7.14%])

    Percentage of vote: 7.14%

  4. other? (5 votes [17.86%])

    Percentage of vote: 17.86%

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#1 User is offline   quiddity 

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Posted 2009-September-11, 14:52

Scoring: MP

1♦ (1♠) ?


Edit: agreements are that 3H is a fit bid and 4H is to play.
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Posted 2009-September-11, 14:56

3♥ shows this hand. With an unknown p I would dbl, just in case 3♥ could be taken as a fitbid.
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Posted 2009-September-11, 16:52

unfortunate agreement for OP re: fit bids. I wonder if anyone wants to figure out frequency of occurrence vs usefullness of the information vs other ways of bidding with a fit and hearts. Not trying to hijack, but it seems this hand is too tough if 3H is fit showing.
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Posted 2009-September-11, 17:01

Good point on the fit bids.
Make a Neg-DBL to show Hts... and then bid Hts.
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Posted 2009-September-11, 17:04

ONEferBRID, on Sep 11 2009, 06:01 PM, said:

Good point on the fit bids.
Make a Neg-DBL to show Hts... and then bid Hts.

that is the only other choice...hope partner can take a joke about my strength.
"Bidding Spades to show spades can work well." (Kenberg)
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Posted 2009-September-12, 00:30

This is a hand for negative Dbl and next round bid hearts at the lowest level.
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Posted 2009-September-12, 01:33

double
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Posted 2009-September-12, 06:39

Negative double.
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Posted 2009-September-12, 16:11

X, followed by the cheapest possible heart bid.

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Posted 2009-September-12, 20:36

At the table I doubled. Unfortunately the bidding was at 4S when it got back to me so I never had a chance to bid hearts, and afterwards, during the dinner break, I was surprised to find that almost everyone disagreed with the call. The general consensus was that double implies a balanced hand and that it was not worth misrepresenting the distribution to show such meager values. Most preferred to pass, hoping to bid hearts later.

I'm not entirely convinced, but it did play a role in our subsequent misdefense of 4S.
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