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Playing 2/1 with a 15-17 1NT and a 20-21 2NT, what's your plan as dealer? I know what the KnR evaluator says, what do you say?
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Posted 2012-December-11, 16:45
Playing 2/1 with a 15-17 1NT and a 20-21 2NT, what's your plan as dealer? I know what the KnR evaluator says, what do you say?
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Posted 2012-December-11, 18:00
I know some excellent players who would, I think, open this 2N. I know of no decent player who would dream of opening 1♣ and rebidding 3♣.
My own choice is to open 1♣ and rebid 2N. My partners are aggressive in accepting this invite, so I won't miss too many games. Moreover, while I usually play a complex method over 2N, I think that bidding after 1♣ 1x 2N can be done fairly well (I like transfers here, with some simple bells and whistles, but reverse wolff isn't hopeless and there are others).
More to the point, I am not so sold on this being a notrump hand, especially if the opps hold most of the missing hcp, that I want to really limit the chances of finding a club contract as much as I would by opening 2N.
Put another way: if a partner of mine opened 2N, I wouldn't be the least upset even if we got a bad result as a result. If I had to score the bids: I wouldn't give either approach 100: 1♣ then 2N 95, 2N 90, 1♣ then 3♣ 10.
My own choice is to open 1♣ and rebid 2N. My partners are aggressive in accepting this invite, so I won't miss too many games. Moreover, while I usually play a complex method over 2N, I think that bidding after 1♣ 1x 2N can be done fairly well (I like transfers here, with some simple bells and whistles, but reverse wolff isn't hopeless and there are others).
More to the point, I am not so sold on this being a notrump hand, especially if the opps hold most of the missing hcp, that I want to really limit the chances of finding a club contract as much as I would by opening 2N.
Put another way: if a partner of mine opened 2N, I wouldn't be the least upset even if we got a bad result as a result. If I had to score the bids: I wouldn't give either approach 100: 1♣ then 2N 95, 2N 90, 1♣ then 3♣ 10.
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Posted 2012-December-11, 18:45
I agree with Mike H. I want to get clubs in here. My partners don't pass my 2nt rebids with even a faint summer breeze, but we have good methods (transfers) here to sort out responder's hand types.
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Posted 2012-December-12, 00:04
mikeh, on 2012-December-11, 18:00, said:
I know of no decent player who would dream of opening 1♣ and rebidding 3♣.
Mikeh - great post as always. I agree - I am somewhat concerned that we might still miss a ♣ slam here even bidding 1C then rebidding 2N.
(Not on post but - for some Precision players 1♣ followed by 3♣ is a stretch, but viable...
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Posted 2012-December-12, 00:23
1C followed by 2NT for me.
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Posted 2012-December-12, 03:18
2NT for me, I dont think its close
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