[kfay]

Here were a few problems I faced tonight at the club (sorry... more than a few ):

Scoring: MP

1♦-1NT
2♠-3♦
3♠?

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Your partner GUARANTEES 5=x=6=x or better with a good 15HCP or more. With a poor(ish) 5=x=6=x hand he would have bid differently.

Scoring: MP

1♦-1NT
2♠-3♦
3♠?

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1♦ was 3+

Scoring: MP

1♦-1NT
2♠-3♦
3♠?

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Scoring: MP

1♦-1NT
2♠-3♦
3♠?

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Scoring: MP

1♦-1NT
2♠-3♦
3♠?

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What was your gameplan opening originally? How about now?

[Jlall]

1) 4D, willing to play 4S if partner bids them again.
2) Light em up yo and lead a spade yo!
3) PASS?! lol
4) PASS?!?!?!?!?!
5) Open 1N. At MP with a double on my left I will just rebid 1N, call me crazy It's so important to play 1N rather than 2m imo, or to find hearts. I'm not really worried that partner will rebid a mediocre 5 bagger when they make a t/o X. We could easily win the board from stopping low/in the superior MP partials. If they hadn't Xed I would rebid 2C.

[mohitz]

1. 4S
2. Pass. Very close to double.
3. Pass, wtp?
4. I have a feeling they will make this. But what can i do once i opened that?
5. Tricky one. I kinda like jlall's 1N but not entirely convinced. 2C for me.

[Codo]

4 ♦ planing to pass 4 ♠ or bid it myself after 4♥.

pass
pass
pass I guess they will make, but anything else will cost a zillion
2 Diamond, my first plan was to rebid 2 Diamond, which is an underbid, but I hate opening 1 NT with this hand and anything else is as much a dissortion as my choice.

[655321]

1) Under the conditions - MP, and partner guaranteeing so many HCP - I will try 4♠.
2) Double.
3) I only have 12 cards, but partner opened 2♥ W/R in 3rd seat so Pass.
4) If we wanted to save over 3NT we could have bid 4♥ immediately, I think that was plausible. But now partner said they are not making - he shouldn't just be doubling on few scattered HCP thinking the opponents are light; on this auction the opponents know how many points they have.
5) Very tempted to bid 2♥, but that might be too much on the forums... Anyway I am not going to take LHO's w/r double too seriously... OK 2♥ for me.

[benlessard]

1- For me 4D is keycard, so i have to bid 4S as a cog bid. Partner will assume that ive got 4D and 3S or more likely Hx--3 diamonds.

2- i could go either way. Double is risky since partner could have limited values and extra shape (D void) but didnt want to bid 3H because we are red against a partscore. Also many make agressive limit bid these days. For me a limit vs an overcall is slightly stronger than a limit vs an opening even by a passed hand. I slighly prefer a H lead to a S lead.

3-Pass WTP

4-Pass WTP

5- Without the X i would bid 2C and bid 2H over a 2D preference but because of the X im not so fond of going to the 3 level so ill bid 2D wich seem more foward going than a 2C followed by a pass of 2D. (ps with 4D and 5C i frequently open 1D)

[gwnn]

i'm erasing you from my christmas card list.

4S keeping it simple on 1.
I really don't understand not passing on 2 and 4.
double on 3 since i think we were making 2h and -100 is gonna be a bad score. and because 2♠ really should be going down.
5 is interesting, I think im gonna try that 2cl thingie.

[gnasher]

On the first one, perhaps 4♣ ought to offer a choice of games. That must be more valuable than a slam try.

benlessard said:

For me 4D is keycard, so i have to bid 4S as a cog bid. Partner will assume that ive got 4D and 3S or more likely Hx--3 diamonds.

What sort of hand would want to bid keycard in this sequence? And why is ♠Hx more likely than three-card support?

[Phil]

1. I'll just bid 5♦. I know its matchpoints but unless both of partners suits are solid we rate to get tapped twice in spades.

2. Pass. I think this is the toughest problem of the set. We have a lousy overcall and partner dredged up a limit raise, part of which is probably based on a singleton diamond. They are NV so we need to beat this two to gain the required equity. I will listen others however, because these are the types of hands I haven't been doubling enough on recently.

3/4. Pass

5. 2♣

[Jlall]

gnasher, on Nov 20 2009, 08:56 AM, said:

On the first one, perhaps 4♣ ought to offer a choice of games. That must be more valuable than a slam try.

benlessard said:

For me 4D is keycard, so i have to bid 4S as a cog bid. Partner will assume that ive got 4D and 3S or more likely Hx--3 diamonds.

What sort of hand would want to bid keycard in this sequence? And why is ♠Hx more likely than three-card support?

As usual I don't think COG is really necessary, partner can bid 4S over 4D if he wants to play there opposite Hx (we've already denied 3 spades to bid 4D obv).

[jdonn]

1-5: Agree with Justin. Especially opening 1NT on the last board, I think it's simply necessary.

Phil your equity in doubling is you beat anyone defending 3♦ undoubled!

[pooltuna]

1) since it is MP 4♦
2) pass
3) 3♥, time to goad the opps
4) you made your bed time to lie in it, pass
5) 2♦, for me 1NT promises 2♠

[Phil]

jdonn, on Nov 20 2009, 12:03 PM, said:

Phil your equity in doubling is you beat anyone defending 3♦ undoubled!

Yes I can see that, but to me its very pertinent that there is less of a MP difference between +50 and +100 than -110 and -470. +300 looks killer of course - is this realistic?

Maybe this a glass half empty approach. Again, please opine.

[jdonn]

Phil, on Nov 20 2009, 12:16 PM, said:

jdonn, on Nov 20 2009, 12:03 PM, said:

Phil your equity in doubling is you beat anyone defending 3♦ undoubled!

Yes I can see that, but to me its very pertinent that there is less of a MP difference between +50 and +100 than -110 and -470. +300 looks killer of course - is this realistic?

Maybe this a glass half empty approach. Again, please opine.

Idunno, I don't think of problems that way because I think all bridge players are so awful at estimating the probabilities of these things. In my mind they are in a normal contract and I think they are probably down, so I double.