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Poll: What is your call? (20 member(s) have cast votes)

What should you bid now?

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  2. 3!c (0 votes [0.00%])

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  3. 3!h (15 votes [75.00%] - View)

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  4. 4!c (0 votes [0.00%])

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  5. 4!h (0 votes [0.00%])

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  6. 5!c (1 votes [5.00%] - View)

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  7. 3N(!) (0 votes [0.00%])

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  8. Pass(!) (4 votes [20.00%] - View)

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#1 User is offline   phil_20686 

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Posted 2011-February-28, 11:18




What should you bid now?

Have tried to include ever imaginable course of action. You are playing with and against experts in a Swiss teams event (imps->VP).
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Posted 2011-February-28, 11:34

Pass and try to collect four digits looks like the plan to me.
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Posted 2011-February-28, 11:52

View Postbluecalm, on 2011-February-28, 11:34, said:

Pass and try to collect four digits looks like the plan to me.


Oops just saw the auction was wrong, sorry. its corrected now.
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Posted 2011-February-28, 12:19

3♥ for me.
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Posted 2011-February-28, 12:26

I can't change my vote at this point.

With the corrected auction, I would 3♥ intending to follow up with 4♣ if pard bids 3NT. Pard implied (but did not promise) that he had a minor suited hand, and I have a hand with lots of controls and 4 good clubs. Slam is certainly in the picture if we have a fit and a heart control.

If pard rebids 4NT (which should be to play) or 5♣ over 4♣, I will respect his decision.

If pard bids 3♠ over 3♥, I will continue with 4♣. My hand is worth at least that. If he signs off in game, I will again respect his decision.
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Posted 2011-February-28, 12:28

3♥. And thank you for adding to my list of auctions where I want to play transfers.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2011-February-28, 13:18

View Postgnasher, on 2011-February-28, 12:28, said:

3♥. And thank you for adding to my list of auctions where I want to play transfers.

Transfers rather than Good/Bad 2NT?
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Posted 2011-February-28, 15:00

View Postpaulg, on 2011-February-28, 13:18, said:

Transfers rather than Good/Bad 2NT?

Yes, I think so. Don't I want to distinguish between a forcing bid and a non-forcing bid, rather than between two ranges of non-forcing bids?
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Posted 2011-February-28, 18:05

Why are we getting all evasive here? We have about a pure 5♣ call to me. No help in hearts, with primes and just the right strength to bid game in this sequence. If a slam is available but partner doesn't bid it, then he doesn't trust our bidding, IMO.
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Posted 2011-February-28, 18:11

View Postgnasher, on 2011-February-28, 12:28, said:

3♥. And thank you for adding to my list of auctions where I want to play transfers.


Transfers from which hand?

I play transfers by responder here.... but a natural 2NT bid by opener is quite useful.
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Posted 2011-February-28, 18:18

Transfers by opener of course. Everybody plays transfers by responder.

Anyway, what does your natural 2NT look like? Is it a balanced minimum so that 2♠ can promise six?
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Posted 2011-March-01, 04:20

If you bid 3♥, partner will bid 4♦, what will you do now? do the auction is:
1♠ (2♥) dble Pass
3♥-4♦
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Posted 2011-March-01, 14:44

View Postphil_20686, on 2011-March-01, 04:20, said:

If you bid 3♥, partner will bid 4♦, what will you do now? do the auction is:
1♠ (2♥) dble Pass
3♥-4♦
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Posted 2011-March-01, 14:55

View Postgnasher, on 2011-February-28, 18:18, said:

Transfers by opener of course. Everybody plays transfers by responder.

Anyway, what does your natural 2NT look like? Is it a balanced minimum so that 2♠ can promise six?


No, because I might want to play in 2S with a balanced minimum.
I use 2NT as 15+ balanced (I don't open 1NT on these hands), but it doesn't come up very often.

I quite like the idea of transfers by opener here.
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