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Poll: your call (14 member(s) have cast votes)

your call

  1. 2N (3 votes [21.43%])

    Percentage of vote: 21.43%

  2. 3d (7 votes [50.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 50.00%

  3. 3h (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  4. 3N (4 votes [28.57%])

    Percentage of vote: 28.57%

  5. 4d (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  6. 5d (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  7. something worse than one of these (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

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#1 User is offline   Apollo81 

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Posted 2008-January-21, 10:05

All red imps

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Posted 2008-January-21, 10:12

3NT looks like the most reasonable place to play.
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Posted 2008-January-21, 10:19

I don't like the looks of this. 3♦.
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Posted 2008-January-21, 10:44

Agree with Whereagles, this is a pretty hopeless hand.
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Posted 2008-January-21, 11:18

I prefer 2N with hands like this.

I like pard to get his suits off his chest first. This looks like an obvious 3N, but I dont want pard to pull to 4 of a black suit.
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Posted 2008-January-21, 11:27

Hmm... I bid 3NT thinking it will show a stopper much more confidently than 2NT would hoping that it might discourage pard pulling more than 2NT would.
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Posted 2008-January-21, 11:59

brianshark, on Jan 21 2008, 05:12 PM, said:

3NT looks like the most reasonable place to play.

Agree. But it isn't obvious that bidding 3NT now is the safest route to end up playing there. Then again, 2NT might see us playing there.
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Posted 2008-January-21, 12:05

The only good excuse I can find for bidding 2NT is pard will rebid 3♣ on his 5116 and we might end up in a fit better than diamonds... other than that 2NT seems overly optimistic.
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Posted 2008-January-21, 14:10

I was gonna bid 3NT, but after reading phil's coment I think 2NT is better
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Posted 2008-January-21, 17:27

Was gonna bid 2N but after reading Phil's comments...

jk :) 2N.
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Posted 2008-January-23, 09:41

No one is worried that 2N is an underbid? Offline most people answered 3N.
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Posted 2008-January-23, 09:42

Apollo81, on Jan 23 2008, 03:41 PM, said:

No one is worried that 2N is an underbid? Offline most people answered 3N.

Not at all. Misfits are to be bid conservatively.
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Posted 2008-January-23, 09:57

The result of the hand is pretty irrelevant. Pard had 6142 shape with the dK and some other irrelevant cards and will pull NT to diamonds. If you had bid 2N you have an easy 3h over pard's 3d then 5d over pard's 4d. If you had bid 3n youll just raise 4d to 5.
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