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Many missed opportunities

Poll: Many missed opportunities (10 member(s) have cast votes)

Which SHOULD have happened to help E/W get to 4H?

  1. West should respond 1H first round (8 votes [47.06%])

    Percentage of vote: 47.06%

  2. East should reverse with 2H on 2nd bid (2 votes [11.76%])

    Percentage of vote: 11.76%

  3. West should bid over 3D (4 votes [23.53%])

    Percentage of vote: 23.53%

  4. East should make one more move on 3rd round (1 votes [5.88%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.88%

  5. Something else (please elaborate in the thread) (2 votes [11.76%])

    Percentage of vote: 11.76%

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#1 User is offline   bd71 

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Posted 2012-March-11, 21:18



This was one of the big swings in the Team 1/Team 2 match today.

E/W here missed many opportunities, any of which likely would likely have landed them (us) in 4♥.

Please respond to the poll to say which things SHOULD have happened, along with any other comments you have...
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Posted 2012-March-11, 23:11

I was wondering what 2♠ on round two would show (perhaps a stronger takeout than X).
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Posted 2012-March-11, 23:28

1) east has a huge hand and knows it is going to be difficult to show it, given 1d can really be crap.
2) I understand x over 1s
3) perhaps 2h focusing on major/diamonds and giving up on clubs is better at this point?
4) a really tough hand......
5) pard passed 1d...ok agree with a max.... 5hpc no aces, no tens, no long major..no long d.


so agree with pass of 1d...close but agree


I understand x but vote 2h in hindsight.....
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Posted 2012-March-12, 01:36

4H looks like a pretty horrible contract to me. You only have 3 top losers but how are you going to play it on a spade lead? If you play a round of trumps they duck...It seems like you need a very lucky layout to make it.
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Posted 2012-March-12, 03:06

You obviously could have taken positions which had been much more successful on this hand. But I would not critszise any single bid. 1 ♥ with both majors or a second double with the powerhouse had been okay, but your descissions had been fine to me.
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Posted 2012-March-12, 07:50

I thought bidding 1H with west, and then -- assuming west passed the first round -- bidding 3H as west, were both automatic at teams. Am I wildly off here?
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Posted 2012-March-12, 08:06

I don't claim that either the bidding or the play was perfect, but here's what happened at my table




I considered reopening with a double rather than 2H (Didn't like the quality of the Heart suit). However, I figured that bidding Hearts at the two level might give me the chance to show clubs at the three level and pattern out nicely...

This post has been edited by hrothgar: 2012-March-12, 10:06
Reason for edit: edited to remove the link to myhands as that will disappear in a month or two... also to make the hand presented larger

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