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#1 User is offline   mr1303 

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Posted 2008-January-19, 14:18

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Last board of a 10 board match, and you are 12 imps down. Game all up the last, as it were.

LHO opens 1S in second, and partner bids 3NT. RHO doubles (and self-alerts as exposing the psyche)

What do you go. Limited agreements (you expect 3NT to be based on a long minor, but you tried a dodgy psyche 2 boards previously)
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Posted 2008-January-19, 15:37

mr1303, on Jan 19 2008, 03:18 PM, said:

Dealer: South
Vul: Both
Scoring: IMP
♠ 109xx
♥ xxx
♦ Jx
♣ Jxxx
 


Last board of a 10 board match, and you are 12 imps down. Game all up the last, as it were.

LHO opens 1S in second, and partner bids 3NT. RHO doubles (and self-alerts as exposing the psyche)

What do you go. Limited agreements (you expect 3NT to be based on a long minor, but you tried a dodgy psyche 2 boards previously)

If partner and I are making silly psyches every second board, no wonder we are losing tha match. At least we will have learnt from the experience.
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Posted 2008-January-19, 16:05

Well, I'm gonna pull to 4♣ and hope teammates can do better on this board than we did. To gamble a pass here is a good way to go -1700... lol.
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Posted 2008-January-19, 16:11

Well, I'm not going to win 12 IMPs by going down in something doubled.

So I send it back. :P
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Posted 2008-January-19, 20:36

will xx.....whatever it means.
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Posted 2008-January-19, 21:35

I can't believe anyone would bid or xx here. Partner has the best idea of what is going on. Pass and hope she has already created sufficient havoc on the board. Bidding is materminding to say the least. xx should be to play at this score.
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Posted 2008-January-20, 01:01

The_Hog, on Jan 19 2008, 09:35 PM, said:

I can't believe anyone would bid or xx here. Partner has the best idea of what is going on. Pass and hope she has already created sufficient havoc on the board. Bidding is materminding to say the least. xx should be to play at this score.

Fully agreed.
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Posted 2008-January-20, 04:56

I also agree with Ron. We are just an extra in this movie.
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Posted 2008-January-20, 05:38

Redouble unless partner understands this as doubt-showing. I play confidence-showing redoubles. Not that I'm particularly confident but +750 may not be +13 imps whereas +1000 or +1400 may be.
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Posted 2008-January-20, 11:05

The_Hog, on Jan 19 2008, 07:35 PM, said:

I can't believe anyone would bid or xx here. Partner has the best idea of what is going on. Pass and hope she has already created sufficient havoc on the board. Bidding is materminding to say the least. xx should be to play at this score.

Completely agree. We don't have a clue what's going on here. Pard's 3N may have earned the swing already.
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Posted 2008-January-20, 11:17

This psyche exposure thing was a silly joke. At the previous board, Don uncovered a psyche of mine and said " because I dont trust Helene". :)
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Posted 2008-January-22, 14:48

Anyway, I tried 4C (because I wasn't confident of partner making 3NT no matter what his hand was, and didn't want partner to have to decide what redouble meant). Unfortunately this was the wrong decision. Partner had exactly 9 top tricks in NT, and made exactly 9 (he played in 4NT).
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Posted 2008-January-22, 15:05

Agree with all of the passers. I have nothing to say.

Sorry I got to this party late.
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