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#1 User is offline   Cyberyeti 

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Posted 2009-December-01, 08:10

Scoring: XIMP


Picked this up in the Tollemache (the competition where the 40 or so English/welsh counties' representative sides play each other in groups to qualify for a final).

Interested to hear what you'd open.

Some idiot (me) opens 5♦ in 3rd seat red all, my LHO held:

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any suggestions what you should bid ?
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Posted 2009-December-01, 08:27

6♣.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2009-December-01, 10:08

gnasher, on Dec 1 2009, 09:27 AM, said:

6♣.

can't argue with this. I might even be saving B)
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Posted 2009-December-01, 14:47

yeah 6C..what else can you do really
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Posted 2009-December-01, 15:16

agree with 5D. now dbl. need too much luck for 6C..
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Posted 2009-December-02, 07:26

6♣ was bid at the table and rapidly given a message by partner that it was the wrong choice (A♥ and QJxx♣) for +500.

This was not however enough to get a swing in on the board.

At all 3 other tables 3♦ was opened, 2 played there doubled for -200, one bid 5Cx for -200.

Nobody tried 3N (the hand opposite the clubs is KJx, K10xx, QJ108, xx for 9 easy tricks and probably more).
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Posted 2009-December-02, 21:12

I agree with preempting in diamonds. The suit is enough for a 3-level preempt, but obviously the 5-card side suit adds a lot of playing strength. We could be cold for 6 opposite some wondrous passed hands, but I don't think the side suit is enough to upgrade 2 levels of preemption. I would open 4♦, 5 at favourable.

Think 6♣ is the best bid on your opponents hand. Tricky though.
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Posted 2009-December-04, 00:35

:P 6♣
easy with a 30 HCP deck and a long suit
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