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#1 User is offline   eagles123 

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Posted 2013-July-24, 02:03

what's the best bid here?



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Posted 2013-July-24, 02:13

2H
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Posted 2013-July-24, 03:26

This is purely a tactical decsison, and all about knowing your opponents.

Given we are red, they are green, they wont have lots of trouble bidding
5H over 4S.
But if you know them, and know, that they hardly ever go to the 5 level,
4S is quite a good option.

The downside, if they do it, you will not be able to show your 2nd suit,
and you would have wished, that you started with a 2-suited overcall.

And even 1S may work well.

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Posted 2013-July-24, 04:02

I have seen some very successful 4 ♠ bid with hands like this. But I would start with 2 ♥, usually followed by spade bids later.
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Posted 2013-July-24, 04:37

2♥ followed by rebidding ♠s
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Posted 2013-July-24, 05:12

Snap 4♠ for me. The hand is not good enough to dog it, imo.
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Posted 2013-July-25, 11:56

2H seems really terrible to me
OK
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Posted 2013-July-29, 07:38

At the N/B level, 3♠ followed by 4♠ over their 4♥ has decent chances of getting a top. Not certain of course but probably good enough to try. Against better opps (or opps who rate you as adv+) the direct blast is probably better. The hand looks like more of a problem of tactics and psychology than pure bidding theory.
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