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Posted 2005-July-04, 06:37
MP. All love.
1♥ 2♦ Dbl pass
???
♠1083
♥AJ942
♦K953
♣A
What do you bid?
Does the vulnerability affect your choice?
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Opener's rebid After partner's negative double
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Posted 2005-July-04, 07:09
i'd prefer not to be vulnerable, but i'm passing anyway....
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Posted 2005-July-04, 07:40
Yeah.. pass.
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Posted 2005-July-04, 11:52
2s
Partner wants me to takout her takeout doubles I assume.
Partner wants me to takout her takeout doubles I assume.
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Posted 2005-July-04, 11:55
2 spades - what I would have bid over partner's 1 spade in an uncontested auction. My negative doubles are much too aggressive to consider pass or 2 notrump.
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Posted 2005-July-04, 12:16
I have 3 flawed choices, which I rank as pass, 2♥ and 2♠. I reject 2♠ because of the weak 3 card holding and the likelihood that partner will be overrruffed in ♦. Also, partner will assume that I hold 4 and thus a differently shaped hand and may get carried away. 2♠ works if he holds 5+.
2♥ is the default bid with most hands, thus clear if I were 3=5=3=2 foe example. BTW, 2♥ has the added benefit that he can bid 2♠ with a 6 card suit: pass may end up looking very silly if he holds something like KQxxxx xx x Jxxx.
But this is mps, and frequency of gain rules, not size of gain. I expect to beat 2♦ more often than not. If we beat it 1, then maybe we cannot make a partial, and if we beat it 2, I expect a top... since we probably cannot make game in that case. If we beat it 3 and lose to 600's or 620's that is life!
Vulnerability does not matter much, but knowing my opps might (esp if they are sound vul bidders)
2♥ is the default bid with most hands, thus clear if I were 3=5=3=2 foe example. BTW, 2♥ has the added benefit that he can bid 2♠ with a 6 card suit: pass may end up looking very silly if he holds something like KQxxxx xx x Jxxx.
But this is mps, and frequency of gain rules, not size of gain. I expect to beat 2♦ more often than not. If we beat it 1, then maybe we cannot make a partial, and if we beat it 2, I expect a top... since we probably cannot make game in that case. If we beat it 3 and lose to 600's or 620's that is life!
Vulnerability does not matter much, but knowing my opps might (esp if they are sound vul bidders)
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Posted 2005-July-04, 12:42
Pass
not thrilled with converting X to penalties but, at this point, the hand looks to be misfit, we have half of the deck (I hope) so it might be easier to defend than to declare.
not thrilled with converting X to penalties but, at this point, the hand looks to be misfit, we have half of the deck (I hope) so it might be easier to defend than to declare.
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