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#21 User is offline   han 

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Posted 2005-July-10, 17:59

Echognome, on Jul 10 2005, 09:37 AM, said:

Partner held:

♠ J
♥ 542
♦ AKJ5
♣ AKQ43

And yes we were playing 2/1. I don't know why he didn't bid 2♣, 4NT, or 5♥ directly but I certainly didn't get how 1NT would do anything but confuse his partner.

I passed for reasons of the small box principle. I have opened the bidding and am minimum. I have responded to 1NT with 2♣ as my better minor and it's a horrible better minor. Yet these two bids have excited partner to some sort of slam invitation. Yes I have good trumps, but I have no extra length and the rest of my hand is cheese.

What happened afterwards? Are you still playing with this partner? Did he actually get shot?
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2005-July-10, 18:52

I think cherdano's - xxx xxx AKxxxxx istheonlyonethat might justy the bidding.
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Posted 2005-July-10, 19:30

Fluffy, on Jul 10 2005, 07:52 PM, said:

I think cherdano's - xxx xxx AKxxxxx istheonlyonethat might justy the bidding.

Playing semi-force, where p will pass with many 5332 hands and junky 11-12 pts I better bid 4h over 1h with that hand. :(. We get the clubs to run or we do not.
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Posted 2005-July-10, 19:55

Hannie, on Jul 11 2005, 12:59 AM, said:

What happened afterwards? Are you still playing with this partner? Did he actually get shot?

Laugh. No but it lead to me writing up a long set of notes on 2/1. Somehow partner wanted to blame me on the hand for not bidding 6. Typical.

Hopefully it won't happen again.
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Posted 2005-July-10, 20:33

Echognome, on Jul 10 2005, 09:55 PM, said:

Hopefully it won't happen again.

This needs more than new notes. Switch to unloaded 1NT response, DENYING all game forcing values and all heart fit hands. Force your partner to bid what he has when he has good hands since the "forcing NT" is only "semi-forcing".

Before we get into semantics, it is not forcing 1NT, but it doesn't have to be balanced, so think of something... like "nf, maybe unbalanced" if semi=forcing is too grating to say.
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Posted 2005-July-10, 23:01

Pard is having a definite bad hair day. Unless they are inspired by Viking Club......

I bid 5S. Why not have a little fun?
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Posted 2005-July-11, 01:52

If my partner ever bid like that, my reply would be:

1. "Sorry, but I have an urgent appointment at my dentist's. That will be a lot more fun than this".

2. "When I'm back, you are no longer my partner. Add EX if you can be bothered".

3. By the way, I asked my dentist what he thought 5♥ could mean. He gave me the exact hand reponder held, so now my dentist and EX-partner are partners :ph34r:

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Posted 2005-July-11, 12:31

Walddk, on Jul 11 2005, 02:52 AM, said:

If my partner ever bid like that, my reply would be:

1. "Sorry, but I have an urgent appointment at my dentist's. That will be a lot more fun than this".

2. "When I'm back, you are no longer my partner. Add EX if you can be bothered".

3. By the way, I asked my dentist what he thought 5♥ could mean. He gave me the exact hand reponder held, so now my dentist and EX-partner are partners ;)

Roland

I hope you dentist's manicurist agreed with the dentist's interpretation and re-construction of partner's hand that warranted a 5-heart bid.

(I would hate to see the 2 of them "fighting tooth and nail")
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