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Responder's first bid

Poll: Which Game force do you prefer (18 member(s) have cast votes)

It has been agreed that we are playing Bergen raises at the table, what is your first response?

  1. 3NT (7 votes [38.89%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 38.89%

  2. 2 Clubs (4 votes [22.22%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 22.22%

  3. 2 Diamonds (2 votes [11.11%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 11.11%

  4. Other non game forcing bid. (Why?) (5 votes [27.78%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 27.78%

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#21 User is offline   wclucas42 

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Posted 2014-December-24, 10:19

Thanks for the comments everyone... As always a fair amount to think through. Hope everyone enjoys their year end holidays and festivities...




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Posted 2014-December-25, 03:50

View PostMrAce, on 2014-December-24, 05:18, said:

This hand is not even worth of 12 hcp to me. I maybe wrong of course but this is what I see when I look at this hand.


Well, I agree those red jacks are probably worthless playing spades. But playing NT they might be worth something.
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Posted 2014-December-26, 21:34

View Postwclucas42, on 2014-December-24, 10:02, said:

I thought my 3 NT was an overbid, like I said I didn't see my hand delivering what I thought it promised.




i would bid 3nt. But if you think your hand isn't good enough to force game, make the delayed limit raise. Yes, there is an argument for it with the loose Jacks. But if you miss a makeable game, I don't think partner will be too happy. Any other call is nonsense in my opinion.
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Posted 2014-December-27, 16:18

You have to bid 3NT. It is the correct Bergen bid - there is no requirement of stoppers, just balanced distribution.

If you "operate" instead of making the correct system bid, you will have problems in the future.
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