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Playing with randoms II?

Poll: Playing with randoms II? (24 member(s) have cast votes)

Your call

  1. Pass (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  2. Double (4 votes [16.67%])

    Percentage of vote: 16.67%

  3. 5H (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  4. 5S (14 votes [58.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 58.33%

  5. 5NT (2 votes [8.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.33%

  6. 6C (2 votes [8.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.33%

  7. 6H (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  8. 6S (2 votes [8.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 8.33%

  9. Other (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

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#1 User is offline   paulg 

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Posted 2012-February-15, 17:22



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Posted 2012-February-15, 17:45

5S
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Posted 2012-February-15, 17:54

playing with a random 5♠ is least likely to be misinterpreted. With a regular partner I'd like to bid 5N, over which I will pass his (non-6C) response.
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Posted 2012-February-15, 18:00

Love the title.
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Posted 2012-February-16, 03:53

Is 5S forcing?
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Posted 2012-February-16, 05:31

finding partner with ♠Ax ♥AKxxx doesn´t even guarantee to make 5♠ I wouldn´t force to slam.
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Posted 2012-February-16, 05:48

View PostFluffy, on 2012-February-16, 05:31, said:

finding partner with ♠Ax ♥AKxxx doesn´t even guarantee to make 5♠ I wouldn´t force to slam.

Looking at your hand another way, partner could have a minimum opening where all we need for slam is ♥ 3-3 and ♠ no worse than 4-1. And then she might have a non-minimum...
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Posted 2012-February-16, 09:29

great hand for the "neg doubles through 7H" people :)

I'd bid 6C.

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Posted 2012-February-16, 10:11

I have no idea what I'm meant to do on this but I do know that it's not a great hand for a negative double. Partner is going to pass this a lot of the time and we have no interest in defending 5♣x at unfavourable. Just because double of 5♣ is negative doesn't mean that partner will expect me to wait around until I'm 6-5 in the unbid suits to do so.
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Posted 2012-February-18, 00:58

View Postsasioc, on 2012-February-16, 10:11, said:

I have no idea what I'm meant to do on this but I do know that it's not a great hand for a negative double. Partner is going to pass this a lot of the time and we have no interest in defending 5♣x at unfavourable. Just because double of 5♣ is negative doesn't mean that partner will expect me to wait around until I'm 6-5 in the unbid suits to do so.


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Posted 2012-February-18, 03:13

Full hand, including names of the randoms, on myhands.
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Posted 2012-February-18, 04:13

View Postpaulg, on 2012-February-18, 03:13, said:

Full hand, including names of the randoms, on myhands.

They aren't randoms. Jillybean is well known- pity she is still at Intermediate level at best.
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Posted 2012-February-18, 08:35

View Postcloa513, on 2012-February-18, 04:13, said:

They aren't randoms. Jillybean is well known- pity she is still at Intermediate level at best.

wow! why is this a pity?
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Posted 2012-February-18, 20:50

Was going to say I could see you and raise you some randoms. Those are all forum members whose posts I read and respect.

Then I started thinking it's a Law failure hand except that it looks (from 15 seconds looking) that there are 11 tricks EW in spades, and 8 tricks NS in clubs.

There have been quite a lot of hands on BBO lately that I could swear came out of the BBO Hand Laboratory.
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Posted 2012-February-19, 02:57

View Postxcurt, on 2012-February-18, 20:50, said:

Was going to say I could see you and raise you some randoms. Those are all forum members whose posts I read and respect.

We, and quite a number of high-profile kibitzers, were all discussing who was going to post the hand first and I was surprised that I beat Phil to it! Title just seemed right at the time :)
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Posted 2012-February-19, 03:51

I invite comments on my 5♣ overcall.
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Posted 2012-February-19, 03:57

obv paulg's title was just a joke. calm down, readers
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Posted 2012-February-19, 05:07

5C is an idiotic bid on the given hand. I would bid 5S over 5C.
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Posted 2012-February-19, 05:41

People are amazingly bad at jokes/sarcasm on the internet. I can't imagine that someone would not think that paulg was joking with the title given who he was playing with...especially when bunnygo gave them the hint with "love the title." Jeez.
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Posted 2012-February-19, 06:08

View Posthan, on 2012-February-16, 03:53, said:

Is 5S forcing?

and this was another joke?
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