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Pass is the sanest action there. Though am mildly surprised noone made a case for a crappy 1NT with those nice minor spots. Lets just say, I was missing the pass card in my bidding box that night
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Posted 2010-February-12, 15:23
Ahh, thanks for all the responses, folks.
Pass is the sanest action there. Though am mildly surprised noone made a case for a crappy 1NT with those nice minor spots. Lets just say, I was missing the pass card in my bidding box that night
Pass is the sanest action there. Though am mildly surprised noone made a case for a crappy 1NT with those nice minor spots. Lets just say, I was missing the pass card in my bidding box that night
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Posted 2010-February-12, 15:35
Fred once made a post that resonated with me (and I hope I'm not misquoting him or taking it out of context), but my recollection was that to raise partner you should have something for him. You should have an A or a K or shortness or extra trump. I always thought that was useful advice.
Here we have nothing to offer partner, so it's an easy pass.
Here we have nothing to offer partner, so it's an easy pass.
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Posted 2010-February-12, 15:46
Echognome, on Feb 12 2010, 04:35 PM, said:
Fred once made a post that resonated with me (and I hope I'm not misquoting him or taking it out of context), but my recollection was that to raise partner you should have something for him. You should have an A or a K or shortness or extra trump. I always thought that was useful advice.
Here we have nothing to offer partner, so it's an easy pass.
Here we have nothing to offer partner, so it's an easy pass.
I think he was talking about making a preemptive raise, in the sense that there are literally players who do so with xxxx xxx xxx xxx. But that advice could still be applied here to some extent.
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Posted 2010-February-13, 02:35
jdonn, on Feb 12 2010, 04:46 PM, said:
Echognome, on Feb 12 2010, 04:35 PM, said:
Fred once made a post that resonated with me (and I hope I'm not misquoting him or taking it out of context), but my recollection was that to raise partner you should have something for him. You should have an A or a K or shortness or extra trump. I always thought that was useful advice.
Here we have nothing to offer partner, so it's an easy pass.
Here we have nothing to offer partner, so it's an easy pass.
I think he was talking about making a preemptive raise, in the sense that there are literally players who do so with xxxx xxx xxx xxx. But that advice could still be applied here to some extent.
Guess we can wait for gwnn to decide this, but pretty sure he was talking about a simple raise. I also learned a lot from that post.
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