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Poll: 5431 bid (17 member(s) have cast votes)

What's my bid?

  1. Pass (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  2. dbl (8 votes [47.06%])

    Percentage of vote: 47.06%

  3. 3S (9 votes [52.94%])

    Percentage of vote: 52.94%

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#1 User is offline   straube 

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Posted 2016-May-20, 13:41

Imps all white, playing Precision

P P 3C ?

AKQ86 9876 K53 5
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Posted 2016-May-20, 13:58

3 ♠ in a flash.

What's outstanding feature of your hand? ♠. It would be nice to find a ♥ fit if one exists, but tell you partner the main feature of your hand. If the ♠ are bad, say ♠ Axxxx ♥ KQxx ♦ Kxx ♣ x, then you might consider doubling rather than bidding ♠.

Like one late great player I knew always said, "Bid what you've got!!"
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Posted 2016-May-20, 14:05

Short clubs great spades. Not close.
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Posted 2016-May-20, 14:12

View Postrmnka447, on 2016-May-20, 13:58, said:

3 ♠ in a flash.

What's outstanding feature of your hand? ♠. It would be nice to find a ♥ fit if one exists, but tell you partner the main feature of your hand. If the ♠ are bad, say ♠ Axxxx ♥ KQxx ♦ Kxx ♣ x, then you might consider doubling rather than bidding ♠.

Like one late great player I knew always said, "Bid what you've got!!"


I'm suspecting partner had x, AKxxx Qxxx, xxx... and 3♠ went off on a foul split with 4♥ cold. 3♠ seems fairly obvious. Also depends if I know my opponents, against me partner could easily have a stiff spade and 4 trump tricks so X becomes more attractive.
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Posted 2016-May-20, 14:17

View Poststraube, on 2016-May-20, 13:41, said:

Imps all white, playing Precision
P P 3C ?
AKQ86 9876 K53 5
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  • 3♠ = NAT. Almost a 6-card suit.
  • Double = T/O. More landing places.
  • Pass = NAT. More tempting before I read BBO expert advice.

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Posted 2016-May-20, 15:50

x
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Posted 2016-May-22, 08:56

Personally I find this interesting and close. I would X but not sure it's right
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Posted 2016-May-22, 09:26

I think I would X

As well as not burying the Heart suit it also protects the position where partner has a penalty X of Clubs (or penalty pass of t/o X of Clubs, which is effectively the same thing but with a weaker lower strength limit). It is not inconceivable that Diamonds may be the right spot.
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Posted 2016-May-22, 09:55

I prefer double to 3♠ by a large margin.
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Posted 2016-May-23, 07:02

Automatic double.
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Posted 2016-May-23, 10:39

That there is such a wide divergence of views tells me it's close.
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