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if it makes a difference 80% of the field play acol weak nt
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Science or Blast
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Posted 2016-December-13, 16:32
"definitely that's what I like to play when I'm playing standard - I want to be able to bid diamonds because bidding good suits is important in bridge" - Meckstroth's opinion on weak 2 diamond
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Posted 2016-December-13, 17:17
I rarely, if ever, comment on freak hands but if this came to me, I would xfer/texas whichever is my method to spades followed by exclusion on ♦. If pd has rounded aces, then I would bid 7♣ and let pd decide which black suit to play.
EDIT: Just noticed the MP part, I would just bid 7♠ if he has the aces I need. My goal with that kind of hands at MP is to get over it with as few damage as I can, so we can turn back to playing bridge again with normal hands.
EDIT: Just noticed the MP part, I would just bid 7♠ if he has the aces I need. My goal with that kind of hands at MP is to get over it with as few damage as I can, so we can turn back to playing bridge again with normal hands.
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Posted 2016-December-13, 17:19
Do we have exclusion? Or can we set spades as trump and ask p to cue first round controls?
Hopefully not blast.
Hopefully not blast.
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Posted 2016-December-13, 19:07
Blasting slam in a suit contract over a 1NT opening sounds wrong / lazy for a reg partnership, when it's prob the tightest defined opening and follow ups of your system.
I think of blasting when an invite is going to be wishy-washy, or there's critical information leakage, or there are no tools available in a casual partnership, that sort of thing.
I think of blasting when an invite is going to be wishy-washy, or there's critical information leakage, or there are no tools available in a casual partnership, that sort of thing.
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Posted 2016-December-14, 11:15
Like the others I don't see any reason to blast this. Transfer to spades, exclusion in diamonds followed up by a CQ ask if available.
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Posted 2016-December-14, 12:37
I'm with the others in that I would use science if it's at all possible in my agreements.
If I have none and partner is a "player" surely I can transfer to spades and then bid 3♣ forcing and blast 6♠ next if I don't get anything useful out of them but I'm never stopping short of that.
If I have none and partner is a "player" surely I can transfer to spades and then bid 3♣ forcing and blast 6♠ next if I don't get anything useful out of them but I'm never stopping short of that.
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Posted 2016-December-14, 13:48
There are two pieces of information I am interested in:
1. Does partner have the hA?
2. What is partner have in clubs?
Im always bidding 6S. After transferring to clubs and either asking for keys or maybe cuebidding.
1. Does partner have the hA?
2. What is partner have in clubs?
Im always bidding 6S. After transferring to clubs and either asking for keys or maybe cuebidding.
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