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Ok, so you deal and get ♠AJx ♥KQx ♦xx ♣AKJxx. Playing 2/1, you open 1♣. Partner responds 1♥ and RHO bids 2♦
Assume you have a support X available. What is your bid?
If you decide to X, what do you do when the tray comes back to you with 2♥?
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Support X?
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Posted 2010-July-02, 05:36
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Posted 2010-July-02, 05:44
I would X (support) and cue 3♦ on the next round. If partner has a completely useless hand we (he 
) will go down in game. It has happened before and it will happen again.
BTW: What was the form of scoring and the vulnerability? Vulnerable at IMPs, I think 3♦ is obvious. At MPs, I could understand a conservative pass.
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) will go down in game. It has happened before and it will happen again.BTW: What was the form of scoring and the vulnerability? Vulnerable at IMPs, I think 3♦ is obvious. At MPs, I could understand a conservative pass.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 05:45
Dbl, not only because it's support, but because it's the only useful call: 3 cards in the unbid suits, no stopper, no other call available. When 2♥ comes back I'll bid 3♦.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 05:46
Of course I make a support X, why should I deny 3-card support?
Over 2H, I raise to 3H.
Rik, why is it between forcing to game and passing for you? Why can't we invite?
Over 2H, I raise to 3H.
Rik, why is it between forcing to game and passing for you? Why can't we invite?
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Posted 2010-July-02, 07:59
cherdanno, on Jul 2 2010, 06:46 AM, said:
Of course I make a support X, why should I deny 3-card support?
Over 2H, I raise to 3H.
Rik, why is it between forcing to game and passing for you? Why can't we invite?
Over 2H, I raise to 3H.
Rik, why is it between forcing to game and passing for you? Why can't we invite?
Good solution to an awkward problem.
I think doubling and raising implies a hand of about this strength (I'd cue with a little more), approximately this shape (no 2♠ or 3♣ call), and no ♦stop.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 11:51
In a style where partner virtually never responds with less than six, I can see doubling and then going straight to 4. Yes, there is a chance it will go down. Going via 3D is as practical as anything else.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 16:42
Partner will bid 2♥ any time he wants to play there opposite a weak notrump, so couldn't an invite be quite a lot weaker than this?
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Posted 2010-July-02, 16:55
Of course double. Over 2♥ I'll bid 3♣. It's the same invitational strength as 3♥ but I don't see why I should force us to what can easily be a 4-3 fit when we might have a 5-3 or 5-4 fit in clubs. If partner has 5 hearts he will go back to 3♥ anyway (except maybe with 3+ clubs). If he has 4 hearts and is so weak he won't accept my invitation then I think 3♣ will usually be as good as or better than 3♥, maybe even if he has a singleton club.
The same high cards but 3334 would be a real nightmare, I guess I'd be confined to try 3♥.
The same high cards but 3334 would be a real nightmare, I guess I'd be confined to try 3♥.
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