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Poll: pick a game (21 member(s) have cast votes)

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  1. pass (11 votes [52.38%])

    Percentage of vote: 52.38%

  2. 4 spades (8 votes [38.10%])

    Percentage of vote: 38.10%

  3. other (2 votes [9.52%])

    Percentage of vote: 9.52%

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#1 User is offline   Fluffy 

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Posted 2013-August-30, 15:22



Match points if it matters.
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Posted 2013-August-30, 17:12

View PostFluffy, on 2013-August-30, 15:22, said:



Match points if it matters.

:P 4♦. Excellent down to earth problem. It looks like a crapshoot to me. Anything could work out best. I really, really hate to give up on 3NT (esp. at MP's), but my 3♦ kind of sounded like a plea for just any sort of club stop, and a weak one probably won't do on this hand. 4♦ at least allows us to consider and evaluate the other three possible games. For that matter, maybe four possible games. If partner bids 4NT, I am going to pass.
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Posted 2013-August-30, 17:54

For me, 3♦ showed a very distributional hand - with 1543 I would usually bid 2N. Partner could have bid 3♥ if he had doubt and needed a club stopper, yet he chose an immediate 3N.
I pass.
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Posted 2013-August-30, 19:01

View PostFluffy, on 2013-August-30, 15:22, said:


Match points if it matters.
IMO Pass = 10, 4♦ = 9, 4♠ = 8.
3N caters for partner holding something like ♠ A K J x x x ♥ x ♦ x x x ♣ K J x
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Posted 2013-September-02, 03:32

This time 3NT was better, partner had ♠AK10xx ♥x ♦Jx ♣KJ109x
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Posted 2013-September-09, 04:43

View Postjdeegan, on 2013-August-30, 17:12, said:

:P 4♦. Excellent down to earth problem. It looks like a crapshoot to me. Anything could work out best. I really, really hate to give up on 3NT (esp. at MP's), but my 3♦ kind of sounded like a plea for just any sort of club stop, and a weak one probably won't do on this hand. 4♦ at least allows us to consider and evaluate the other three possible games. For that matter, maybe four possible games. If partner bids 4NT, I am going to pass.

Sorry,but 3NT is the best spot. And while 3♦could be construed as "fishing" for a club stop,the real nature of the bid
is you're showing a second biddable suit and asking p for preference. You've shown 5-5 in the red suits and partner hasn't supported either of them but has shown he has the unbid suit ♣ guarded. The contract should rest here,to go further on tempts fate.
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