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Strange GIB penalty pass

#1 User is offline   Antrax 

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Posted 2014-May-22, 22:47


I think North has an easy 3♥ bid - was it expecting E to bid again or something?
2NTx= was the most common result, with E holding ♠62 ♥A ♦AT2 ♣AQ98752 you get to cash your five running spades and declarer gets two aces and six running diamonds.
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Posted 2014-May-23, 13:00

Certainly an inappropriate pass, but definitely not strange for GIB who makes all kinds of suicidal passes of takeout doubles without hope of beating the contract. This doesn't make past a 5 out of 10 in terms of worst conversions of a takeout double.
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Posted 2014-May-23, 15:19

North and East have 5 of each major between them... GIB's description of a 2♦ opening includes a maximum of 3 in each major... so, South is at least 5-5 in the majors... Shoulda bid 3♦ instead of dbl B-)
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Posted 2014-May-23, 21:26

Yeah, South's hand was something like ♠AKQJx ♥KQJTx ♦x ♣xx. Didn't want to give up on penalty in case distributions are wild all over the table.
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