[pooltuna]

RHO is holding

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and hearing the auction start with LHO's 1NT and partner's pass can you guess RHO's table bid and the justification for it?

the bid

Spoiler

3NT

and why

Spoiler

sry, worried about !D ♦

[TylerE]

Is this really appropriate? Do you get off on mocking your opponents or something?

[kfay]

I don't understand what actually happened. The hand pictured raised 1NT to 3NT?

[Trumpace]

TylerE, on Dec 17 2009, 03:47 PM, said:

Is this really appropriate? Do you get off on mocking your opponents or something?

At least it is not worse than mocking forum posters

[kenrexford]

I don't get it.

The person with this hand bid 3NT because he thought that 6♣ might suffer from a diamond lead, and there was apparently no weay to find that out?

Seems reasonable.

[TylerE]

Trumpace, on Dec 17 2009, 03:52 PM, said:

TylerE, on Dec 17 2009, 03:47 PM, said:

Is this really appropriate? Do you get off on mocking your opponents or something?

At least it is not worse than mocking forum posters

I'd actually disagree...at least on the forums the mocked party has the ability to return fire.

[jdonn]

If the point is to have a funny story about how bad people are at bridge, why not have him pass 1NT instead?

[Trumpace]

TylerE, on Dec 17 2009, 03:58 PM, said:

Trumpace, on Dec 17 2009, 03:52 PM, said:

TylerE, on Dec 17 2009, 03:47 PM, said:

Is this really appropriate? Do you get off on mocking your opponents or something?

At least it is not worse than mocking forum posters

I'd actually disagree...at least on the forums the mocked party has the ability to return fire.

Disagree with your disagreement.

On the forums, the person being mocked has a high chance of actually reading that post.

If this RHO is offended by reading this thread, he/she is free to respond.

[Trumpace]

jdonn, on Dec 17 2009, 04:00 PM, said:

If the point is to have a funny story about how bad people are at bridge, why not have him pass 1NT instead?

Or have LHO pass RHO's 4♣ bid.

[hrothgar]

Trumpace, on Dec 18 2009, 12:18 AM, said:

TylerE, on Dec 17 2009, 03:58 PM, said:

Trumpace, on Dec 17 2009, 03:52 PM, said:

TylerE, on Dec 17 2009, 03:47 PM, said:

Is this really appropriate? Do you get off on mocking your opponents or something?

At least it is not worse than mocking forum posters

I'd actually disagree...at least on the forums the mocked party has the ability to return fire.

Disagree with your disagreement.

On the forums, the person being mocked has a high chance of actually reading that post.

If this RHO is offended by reading this thread, he/she is free to respond.

I was always told that its wrong to talk about people behind their back...

Then again, I was also told that it was wrong to say that someone had their head stuck up their ass, so what do I know

[Trumpace]

hrothgar, on Dec 17 2009, 04:23 PM, said:

Trumpace, on Dec 18 2009, 12:18 AM, said:

TylerE, on Dec 17 2009, 03:58 PM, said:

Trumpace, on Dec 17 2009, 03:52 PM, said:

TylerE, on Dec 17 2009, 03:47 PM, said:

Is this really appropriate? Do you get off on mocking your opponents or something?

At least it is not worse than mocking forum posters

I'd actually disagree...at least on the forums the mocked party has the ability to return fire.

Disagree with your disagreement.

On the forums, the person being mocked has a high chance of actually reading that post.

If this RHO is offended by reading this thread, he/she is free to respond.

I was always told that its wrong to talk about people behind their back...

Then again, I was also told that it was wrong to say that someone had their head stuck up their ass, so what do I know

Don't care. Not interested.

[jjbrr]

i thought it was funny

[pooltuna]

kfay, on Dec 17 2009, 03:50 PM, said:

I don't understand what actually happened. The hand pictured raised 1NT to 3NT?

yes

[pooltuna]

Trumpace, on Dec 17 2009, 03:52 PM, said:

TylerE, on Dec 17 2009, 03:47 PM, said:

Is this really appropriate? Do you get off on mocking your opponents or something?

At least it is not worse than mocking forum posters

Damn I must be failing at that I haven't gotten any recent complaints....Wait JDonn has alternating concentric red and white circles painted on his center...Bummer of a birth mark if you are a deer.

[bid_em_up]

TylerE, on Dec 17 2009, 03:47 PM, said:

Is this really appropriate? Do you get off on mocking your opponents or something?

I think you are reading more into this than there really is.

If your RHO said this, wouldn't you find it amusing that he wasn't worried about the singleton spade, or the singleton heart, but about the three dead diamonds instead.

Would you never share the story with your dinner companions during the break?

I don't think he's necessarily referring to the 3N bid as being bad, it's just the comment that was made regarding why 3N was chosen was amusing.

jmoo.

[ggwhiz]

Playing in Indy's it would probably go 3c float 1 or 2 times out of 10.

The reasoning behind 3nt must be the joke but it's well hidden.

[chasetb]

Why not use 4♣ as Gerber to see how many Aces there are? 4NT shouldn't go down on a strong NT, and you have a better picture of the hands. Maybe that's the joke- but if it's a WEAK 1NT I could see why there's no looking for slam and just a 3NT rebid.

[Phil]

chasetb, on Dec 23 2009, 04:12 PM, said:

Why not use 4♣ as Gerber to see how many Aces there are?  4NT shouldn't go down on a strong NT, and you have a better picture of the hands. 

Gerber! The focus of so many bridge jokes!

Its Palm Springs last week and I'm killing time before the 2nd session. So I see a local novice who's attending his first regional, so I ask, "any interesting hands"?

He says, yeah, you hold eight diamonds to the AKQ....

(I said, "hands with 8 baggers are usually interesting"....)

♠Ax♥Qx ♦AKQTxxxx ♣x

So you open 1♦ and hear 1♥ by pard.

(hmm...I said.....this is tough. I imagine 3N, 3♦, 2♠ and 3♣ might all get votes).

Nope, not my choice. I bid 4♣ !?

(wow, 4♣ - thats a splinter in support of hearts - that wouldn't occur to me)

We don't play splinters. (actually I'm not sure he knows what a splinter is). 4♣ is ALWAYS ace asking.

(auto-gerber - groan - who is teaching these people. But I admit - this might be a good hand for it)

So partner shows me two (nice) with 4♠ and I ask about kings with 4N (rolling auto gerber!). And partner shows me one king.

(too bad - if its the ♥K - great news - otherwise - not so great).

So he wonders how to bid the grand with ♠xxxx ♥AKxx ♦x ♣Axxx playing this system.

(I said the second session was starting. I didn't hand him my business card)

[manudude03]

The previous post reminds me of an auction my opps had in my last match for my local club.

1D-1S
4C-4H
4S-P

They have 12 top tricks, the 4C was gerber and opener said after the hand "sorry partner, I can't tell if you have 5 points or 15". The curious solution Helene suggested was that responder then asked opener for aces after the signoff (responder had a 12 count).

If that did happen, then it would have been gerber and blackwood on the same hand , with both ace asking.

[nige1]

kenrexford, on Dec 17 2009, 03:52 PM, said:

I don't get it. The person with this hand bid 3NT because he thought that 6♣ might suffer from a diamond lead, and there was apparently no weay to find that out? Seems reasonable.

Agree with Ken, especially opposite a normal 10-12 or 12-14 1N opener.