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#1 User is offline   Gerben42 

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Posted 2012-January-26, 13:18

Would you have bid differently? If so how?


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Posted 2012-January-26, 13:45

No, I would do the same. Ah well...
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Posted 2012-January-26, 14:55

This sequence:

1-1NT
2-2NT
3

Is forcing, and that is why I wouldn´t bid 2. I would bid 2. Wich is lucky to be the bid that catches a happy raise from East that I would convert to game.
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Posted 2012-January-26, 15:13

No. And it's hardly the world's best game, particularly NV
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Posted 2012-January-26, 17:25

Bidding looks perfectly normal to me.
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Posted 2012-January-26, 18:22

I think responder in general has to be aggressive in this auction as 2 could be an extremely poor hand. But with queens in both of partner's short suits it makes sense to just bid 2. I would not move with West.

Anyway it looks like ten tricks could be difficult if diamonds are not 3-3.
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Posted 2012-January-26, 20:36

I would bid 2 with the west hand and if east raised to 3 I would accept the game invite. I don't see much point in showing the 4 card diamond suit. I'll show the 6 spades. If we get to a playable game, it won't be in diamonds and if it ends up being nt, no reason to map out the hand for the opponents.
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Posted 2012-January-27, 04:24

I would hate a 2 bid from west and would have duplicated the given auction. Yes West is 6-4- but not enough to invite and East? Point counters may count enough points for a stronger move, but the two queens in partners short suits do not look promising at all.
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Posted 2012-January-27, 06:49

Indeed. Responder's two Qxxx look suspicious. To stop at 2S is normal.
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Posted 2012-January-29, 10:29

I found nothing wrong with our bidding either, so I was surprised to see that out of 8 tries, the scores were:

1x 2+2 (us)
3x 3NT +1
4x 4 =

Given that it includes many of Germany's top pairs, I was wondering what I was missing...
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