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#1 User is offline   AL78 

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Posted 2022-September-25, 03:47



Your call?
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Posted 2022-September-25, 05:00

Scoring ? Overcall style ?

This is an incredibly dangerous position to come in, E with the 19 count who was about to bid 4 might be about to redouble and catch you for a serious number opposite partner's 3424 pile. If I was going to enter this auction, I opened in 3rd seat.
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Posted 2022-September-25, 06:14

White vs Red I'd risk the X.
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Posted 2022-September-25, 06:48

View PostCyberyeti, on 2022-September-25, 05:00, said:

Scoring ? Overcall style ?

This is an incredibly dangerous position to come in, E with the 19 count who was about to bid 4 might be about to redouble and catch you for a serious number opposite partner's 3424 pile. If I was going to enter this auction, I opened in 3rd seat.


Sorry, MPs. As to overcall style, if the length of the suit plus the number of honor cards in the suit (ten being classed as an honor) equals the number of tricks it is good enough to overcall. An exception is if the hand is strong in HCP and has trick taking potential outside the long suit, the suit can then be weaker.
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Posted 2022-September-25, 08:11

Your partner has passed twice, and he has heard you pass once, and if the opps. bid 4 then the trump split might break their contract given that you also have two aces. Even at this favorable vulnerability, I would pass. I do not see any advantage of X, and it might help declarer make his contract as he will now have an idea of the distribution.
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Posted 2022-September-25, 08:44

If anyone could double here it was your partner on his second call. Coming in now against decent opponents is just asking for trouble (and if they are hopeless you might push them into their making game).
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Posted 2022-September-25, 10:54

The shape is tempting at pairs, but the two Aces and empty suits are more defensive than offensive.
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Posted 2022-September-25, 11:47

I decided to pass based on the reasoning given here. Double could work brilliantly or dreadfully depending on the layout of the cards.

To anyone who would have risked a double, well done. Here is the full layout:



My attempt to avoid rash/dangerous bidding rewarded us with three out of 16 MPs. The full traveller:

2 E 9 -140 (us)
4 E 9 100
4 S 8 -100
1NT W 10 -180
4 E 9 100
3 E 9 -140
3 N 7 -100
3 E 9 -110
3 E 9 -110

The only way we could get a decent score on this board is for us to find a way into the auction. 3 is makeable. Given the consensus suggestion for me to stay quiet, I'll put this one down to bad luck.
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Posted 2022-September-25, 12:38

View PostAL78, on 2022-September-25, 11:47, said:

The only way we could get a decent score on this board is for us to find a way into the auction.


View Postpescetom, on 2022-September-25, 08:44, said:

If anyone could double here it was your partner on his second call.



View PostAL78, on 2022-September-25, 11:47, said:

Given the consensus suggestion for me to stay quiet, I'll put this one down to bad luck.


? :(
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Posted 2022-September-25, 12:49

Guessing the 1S card was missing from partners bidding box
"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 2022-September-25, 12:56

View Postpescetom, on 2022-September-25, 12:38, said:

? :(


In other words, there is nothing different I should have done. Overcalling 1 looks very borderline, I'm not sure I would have given the minimum HCP, anaemic suit and values in opener's suit, even with the favourable vulnerability. If I am wrong here I am open to persuasion otherwise.
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Posted 2022-September-25, 13:20

3 showing 5+ and 4+ 5-6 loser
i think there are more loser..
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Posted 2022-September-25, 13:25

seeing again the biding a weak 2 in third chair or 1 or 1 BEFORE 4 chair open
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Posted 2022-September-25, 13:30

This is why you open in 3rd seat, 1-(1)-1 and you're in
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Posted 2022-September-25, 13:31

View PostAL78, on 2022-September-25, 11:47, said:

I decided to pass based on the reasoning given here. Double could work brilliantly or dreadfully depending on the layout of the cards.

To anyone who would have risked a double, well done. Here is the full layout:



My attempt to avoid rash/dangerous bidding rewarded us with three out of 16 MPs. The full traveller:

2 E 9 -140 (us)
4 E 9 100
4 S 8 -100
1NT W 10 -180
4 E 9 100
3 E 9 -140
3 N 7 -100
3 E 9 -110
3 E 9 -110

The only way we could get a decent score on this board is for us to find a way into the auction. 3 is makeable. Given the consensus suggestion for me to stay quiet, I'll put this one down to bad luck.

an ekren opening !!!!!
south open 2 showing 4+ and 4+ less then NORMAL opening point count the original is 5- 10 point but 0-8 can do 2
you corect to 2 and east have nothing to say!!!
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Posted 2022-September-25, 13:52

View PostAL78, on 2022-September-25, 12:56, said:

In other words, there is nothing different I should have done. Overcalling 1 looks very borderline, I'm not sure I would have given the minimum HCP, anaemic suit and values in opener's suit, even with the favourable vulnerability. If I am wrong here I am open to persuasion otherwise.


I think you are wrong to compliment anyone who would have risked a double in your place, wrong to conclude that it was bad luck and wrong to ignore the suggestion that it might be a mistake of your partner.
Otherwise you are right :)
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Posted 2022-September-25, 17:45

I'm clearly on the lunatic fringe, but double looks completely normal to me. If I pass, the most likely thing is that they play a comfortable 2H for a poor score to us. Partner can have a reasonable hand with no good action over 1H, so it's on me to act with the shortage in hearts. Doubling is certainly not without risk, but we're likely to have a fit and we're never finding it if I pass here.
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Posted 2022-September-26, 13:22

I'm an OBAR BIDS [Opponents Bid and Raise, Balance in Direct Seat] player and I'd be worried about doubling here.

I also can't open that hand 1 in third. 1, though...

I'm not going to say that 1 by South is automatic, but the boss suit, that you're happy to be raised in (especially if they have a heart fit!), with enough heart cards that if they play NT a spade lead is probably your best shot on defence...

Having passed throughout, though, because I'm an OBAR BIDS player, as South, I'm letting them play 2 too. Partner, who almost certainly is short in hearts, in third seat white on red, and has had two opportunities to come in, thinks they should play 2-of-a-fit. I'll believe partner, and hope for -170, even with my trumps.
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Posted 2022-September-26, 13:30

View Postmycroft, on 2022-September-26, 13:22, said:

I'm an OBAR BIDS [Opponents Bid and Raise, Balance in Direct Seat] player and I'd be worried about doubling here.

I also can't open that hand 1 in third. 1, though...

I'm not going to say that 1 by South is automatic, but the boss suit, that you're happy to be raised in (especially if they have a heart fit!), with enough heart cards that if they play NT a spade lead is probably your best shot on defence...

Having passed throughout, though, because I'm an OBAR BIDS player, as South, I'm letting them play 2 too. Partner, who almost certainly is short in hearts, in third seat white on red, and has had two opportunities to come in, thinks they should play 2-of-a-fit. I'll believe partner, and hope for -170, even with my trumps.


We have to open the diamond precisely because with the overcalls we play we can't overcall 1 with the S hand, although we could overcall 2 but probably wouldn't, if it was KJ10xx, we would.
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Posted 2022-September-27, 16:08

Third seat at green, I think you should have considered an opening but that ship has sailed. After an OBAR (opponents bid and raise) auction, it is nearly always right to come in with shortage and here you even have a maximum. Anything other than X from the North hand strikes me as a pretty extreme position. I doubt I would consider Pass a logical alternative if there was UI on the hand!
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