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Opening bid problem

Poll: What's your opening? (42 member(s) have cast votes)

What's your opening?

  1. Pass (17 votes [40.48%])

    Percentage of vote: 40.48%

  2. 1S (5 votes [11.90%])

    Percentage of vote: 11.90%

  3. 2S (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  4. 3S (2 votes [4.76%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.76%

  5. 4S (17 votes [40.48%])

    Percentage of vote: 40.48%

  6. Something else (1 votes [2.38%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.38%

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Posted 2010-January-25, 01:15

♠QJ98743 ♥KJ962 ♦- ♣9

First seat favorable at matchpoints. What's your opening bid?
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Posted 2010-January-25, 01:31

I'm passing. We have the majors and favorable vulnerability, no need to do anything to preempt our auction just yet, and I don't have any descriptive constructive options at this point.
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Posted 2010-January-25, 01:40

4S no problem yet... I am nonexpert and open lite.
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Posted 2010-January-25, 01:47

Agree with hduu
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Posted 2010-January-25, 01:48

Urg, I'll pass. Maybe we bid and make 6♥. I'm feeling lucky.
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Posted 2010-January-25, 01:53

Pass.

No second choice.

Anything else is a distortion.

Why would I want to make life any more difficult than it already is?

This hand can be described MUCH better after the auction has progressed - as we have some idea of who has what and how the strength is divided (since we lack most of it).

Al Roth was right about a great many things - and PASSING hands like this initially was one of them. :lol:
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Posted 2010-January-25, 01:54

Ok, I change my vote to 4♠ in that case.

Side question, was that a swing of 8 levels of bidding?
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Posted 2010-January-25, 01:57

jdonn, on Jan 25 2010, 02:54 AM, said:

Ok, I change my vote to 4♠ in that case.

Now I'm 100% sure Al and I are right.

I was only about 95% certain before. :lol:
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Posted 2010-January-25, 02:26

4S for me.

"Why would I want to make life any more difficult than it already is?"
I totally agree with this. Why should we make life difficult for our opponents. Let them open and limit their hands, then lets come in with a 2 suited bid and get doubled. They will thank us for being so nice.
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Posted 2010-January-25, 02:40

4S
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Posted 2010-January-25, 03:50

I'm glad noone's voted for 2/3♠ lol
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Posted 2010-January-25, 04:01

I have a 2♦ opening for weak with both majors, but not gonna use it anyway.

pass and 4♠ are reasonable, the better the opponents are the more I'd want to bid 4♠. Against lol's its a clear pass.
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Posted 2010-January-25, 04:27

Hi,

Pass.

I wont open 1S, but I can understand 4S.

Best would be something like 3NT to show 6-5 in the majors.

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Posted 2010-January-25, 06:17

1 ♠ strong enough. 4 ♠ throwns a bomb but this will often hit ourselves with a 5 card major aside, so I take the low road. I won't pass partners penalty double before we reach 5 diamond- nad maybe not even then.
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Posted 2010-January-25, 07:43

Pass, Michaels, Spades (if necessary) seems like a reasonable way to describe this.
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Posted 2010-January-25, 08:28

4S, I just like the odds of it going double-all pass too much.
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Posted 2010-January-25, 08:56

4S for me
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Posted 2010-January-25, 09:26

ewj, on Jan 25 2010, 04:50 AM, said:

I'm glad noone's voted for 2/3♠ lol

Opening 2S with the hand is also an option, ... as long as you are willing
to bid your 2nd suit at the appropriate level.

My reg. p likes to open weak two suiters with 2M, but will show his 2nd
suit at any level, which comes along.
The style was adv. by Roth, and if I remeber correctly, Zia and Rosenberg
also played asimilar weak two style.

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Posted 2010-January-25, 09:40

awm, on Jan 25 2010, 02:15 AM, said:

♠QJ98743 ♥KJ962 ♦- ♣9

First seat favorable at matchpoints. What's your opening bid?

pass or 4♠ nothing in between stirs interest
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Posted 2010-January-25, 09:53

Pass followed by a LOT of bidding.

I'm not worried about them competing in the minors with the bad splits they will face and the level I can force them up to. If the hand belongs to us, the sky is the limit IF we play in the right strain.

Much less chance that the hand belongs to them in a minor at a very high level.
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