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#21 User is offline   bluecalm 

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Posted 2009-December-28, 21:07

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I strongly favor the support x. Rebidding 2♥ is gross (incredibly unilateral/handhoggish). Give me a suit that plays WELL opposite a small singleton and maybe you can pretend you had a ♠ in with your ♣.


The problem is that by making support double you will almost always play in 5-3 spade fit with your xxx o the suit instead of in 6-2 heart fit with all cards being useful and only 2diamond "losers" to care for (while in spades you need to make a lot of club ruffs and you are vulnerable to losing a lot of spade tricks.
My intuition says 2H is better but I need to generate some layouts to be more sure.
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Posted 2009-December-28, 22:46

I think passing the X is significantly better than any other option.
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Posted 2009-December-29, 07:25

FWIW, on this specific deal, 5♣ gets nicked a trick. Any other contract (played by us of course) gets a big set.

BTW, I noticed that "500" is a http code for "internal server error" and a smtp code also meaning that a syntax error occurred due to an unrecognized command. That seems somehow relevant.
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