Three passes to you and you open 1♣. 1♣ can be 2, your raise always promises 4♠, 2NT is natural and invitational. What do you do at IMPs and MPs?
And naow?
#1
Posted 2010-July-07, 16:15
Three passes to you and you open 1♣. 1♣ can be 2, your raise always promises 4♠, 2NT is natural and invitational. What do you do at IMPs and MPs?
#4
Posted 2010-July-07, 17:51
#5
Posted 2010-July-07, 18:01
Oh he's a passed hand..... ok switch to pass at mps.
#6
Posted 2010-July-07, 18:05
#7
Posted 2010-July-07, 18:08
jdonn, on Jul 7 2010, 07:01 PM, said:
Oh he's a passed hand..... ok switch to pass at mps.
lol you have a yarb. I'm in for 3N vul at imps just because fck it I have 13 and a few spot cards and I won't play 2N! but I would def pass white at imps and def at MP.
#8
Posted 2010-July-07, 18:26
#9
Posted 2010-July-07, 20:23
jdonn, on Jul 7 2010, 07:26 PM, said:
655321 will play it better than you
Oh, partner is declaring, well presumably someone of 655321s ability will have a better partner than you then!
Also I didn't think you disagreed with me since the specified vul was VUL, and you said pass at MP 3N at imps which is the same as me! But damn you and your children if you bid white at imps!
#11
Posted 2010-July-07, 20:50
Little Kid, on Jul 7 2010, 05:15 PM, said:
1♠ - 2♠
2NT - ?
Three passes to you and you open 1♣. 1♣ can be 2, your raise always promises 4♠, 2NT is natural and invitational. What do you do at IMPs and MPs?
I pass 1♠
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#12
Posted 2010-July-07, 21:47
JLOL, on Jul 7 2010, 07:08 PM, said:
MarkDean, on Jul 7 2010, 09:36 PM, said:
pooltuna, on Jul 7 2010, 09:50 PM, said:
Sheesh, the Justin effect! Next we will get someone assuring us they wouldn't have opened the hand at all!
#13
Posted 2010-July-07, 22:58
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#14
Posted 2010-July-07, 23:18
#15
Posted 2010-July-08, 01:57
Maybe pass and MPs if I need a top, but other than that, it's really a no brainer.
#16
Posted 2010-July-08, 02:05
#17
Posted 2010-July-08, 03:24
Regarding the strain, partner might have a quacky, notrump oriented hand, but I don't. There may be deals where it's right to play 2NT when you have an 8-card major-suit fit, but I doubt if this is one of them. Having a trump suit means that when they play the 13th card in a suit it will give me a ruff and discard, rather than simply being a winner.
#18
Posted 2010-July-08, 03:44
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#19
Posted 2010-July-08, 04:36
xxxx, xxx, KQx, AKx or KQJx, Jxx, KJx, Jxx and these are far from the worst hands partner can hold, I'd have opened both of these, but then I play a 12-14 no trump.
Whether you want to play in spades or no trumps is arguable, but pass or 3S please. What Gnasher says is true, but it's entirely feasible that spades and no trumps take the same number of tricks as you're effectively throwing 2 losers on the 13th card of a suit they cash. KQxx, xxx, xxx, AKx might be such a hand, if D are 4-3 or 5-2 you have 8 tricks assuning the spades break in 2N or 3S, with a 50% chance of a ninth in spades, but the chance of a heart lead (possibly away from the ace) in no trumps.

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1♠ - 2♠
2NT - ?