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AQ94 JT762 43 K2 Opening bid?

Poll: Pairs, opponents vul, first seat (45 member(s) have cast votes)

Open AQ94 JT762 43 K2?

  1. Yes (2 votes [4.44%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.44%

  2. No (39 votes [86.67%])

    Percentage of vote: 86.67%

  3. Sometimes (4 votes [8.89%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.89%

Open JTxx AQ9xx xx Kx?

  1. Yes (6 votes [13.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.33%

  2. No (34 votes [75.56%])

    Percentage of vote: 75.56%

  3. Sometimes (5 votes [11.11%])

    Percentage of vote: 11.11%

Open JTxxx AQ9x xx Kx?

  1. Yes (10 votes [22.22%])

    Percentage of vote: 22.22%

  2. No (26 votes [57.78%])

    Percentage of vote: 57.78%

  3. Sometimes (9 votes [20.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 20.00%

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#1 User is offline   nige1 

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Posted 2011-March-22, 08:30

Basic 2/1/ Match-pointed pairs, EW vul. As dealer, South, do you open ♠ AQ94 ♥ JT762 ♦ 43 ♣ K2
What if the major honours were swapped? What if the major suits were exchanged?
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Posted 2011-March-22, 08:38

Oops sr I voted "sometimes" because I would open in 3rd/4th except maybe when vulnerable at IMPs. Given the conditions my answer is no.
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Posted 2011-March-22, 09:13

Yes, especially when the jack is supported by a ten.
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Posted 2011-March-22, 09:19

1. No - Close
2. Yes - Strongest of the 3
3. Yes - Easy rebid
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Posted 2011-March-22, 09:58

I don't like to open light in 2/1 without a clear rebid. Hands 1 & 2 don't have clear rebids and lack extra distribution (5422 is balanced imo). Hand 3 has a clear rebid but also lacks extra distribution. In 1st seat they're all passes for me.

I'd only open hands 2 and 3 in 3rd seat.

If your partner has a balanced 12-13 count with a 5 card minor suit, we'll be in a very light game. With imps scoring it might be justified, but not in MP imo.
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Posted 2011-March-22, 11:58

yes, easy on all three but I love to open lite but tell pard and esp. the opp.

on one and two I pass if pard bids 1nt and rebid 2s! if pard makes a 2/1.
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Posted 2011-March-22, 12:46

No, no, yes
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Posted 2011-March-23, 13:20

Thank you to those who voted. I'm grateful for the comments. Whatever the other merits of 2/1, it seems to me that not opening on such hands is a drawback of the system.
♠ AQ9x ♥ JTxxx ♦ xx ♣ Kx seems doubly flawed, compared with
♠ JTxx ♥ AQ9xx ♦ xx ♣ Kx or
♠ JTxxx ♥ AQ9x ♦ xx ♣ Kx but many would not open any of them.
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Posted 2011-March-23, 19:31

View Postmike777, on 2011-March-22, 11:58, said:

on one and two I pass if pard bids 1nt and rebid 2s! if pard makes a 2/1.

If you're planning to pass partner's "forcing" bid, then maybe you shouldn't be putting yourself in that position in the first place.
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Posted 2011-March-23, 22:51

View PostBbradley62, on 2011-March-23, 19:31, said:

If you're planning to pass partner's "forcing" bid, then maybe you shouldn't be putting yourself in that position in the first place.



1nt sf not forcing. Very common in 2/1.
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Posted 2011-March-24, 04:56

AQ9xx JTxx xx Kx

maybe just maybe.

I'd be happy to open the first one 1S in a canapé system. :)
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Posted 2011-March-24, 08:37

well, I tend to open all those hands...


but I see that most of you aren't.

SO....I guess i am too agressive.....
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Posted 2011-March-24, 08:44

Hands like these are the reason that I play strong club systems

(For the record, I would pass with all of these hands playing 2/1 GF)
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Posted 2011-March-24, 09:10

Yup, pass all three playing 2/1, amazed so many have said otherwise. I'd open all three playing sensible methods.
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Posted 2011-March-26, 09:42

It has to depend on partnership agreement. My instinct is "no", but there again I'd open a "weak both majors" 2♦. Without that, or similar, a partnership would have to agree on minimum strength for a 1M open. I like to keep it sound, but if partner wanted to play it this weak I would have to adjust the values of my responses.
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Posted 2011-March-27, 06:13

I voted that I would only open the last one (mostly because of the rebid issues), but I've been convinced that in 2/1 pass is definitely correct.
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