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#1 User is online   mikeh 

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Posted 2008-January-28, 14:59

Imps, all red, advanced opps and partner: your counterpart in the other room is WC playing also with advanced partner and opps.

You pick up, in 2nd seat, this promising collection:

32  6  AK42  AK9862

Rho deals and opens:

(1♠)  2♣  (P)  3♣
(3♥)  ?

Do you bid, and, if so, what and why?

Note, in my regular partnerships, 3♣ would be a courtesy raise (2♠ would have been constructive or better) but you have NO agreements with this partner.
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Posted 2008-January-28, 15:01

double.

With tough bidding hands double or cuebidding seems to help often.
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Posted 2008-January-28, 15:05

bid game, try to make it. because vulnerable games hurt. and because sometimes they bid 5M when it's wrong and sometimes they don't bid 5M when it's right.
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Posted 2008-January-28, 15:22

I agree with Gwynn. Bid 5C, make them make the last guess. Don't need much from partner to make it and if you are down 1, very good chance 4 of a major is making. I can't really see you getting too bloodied.
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Posted 2008-January-28, 15:35

Wow. And here I was going to settle for a 4 bid.

I'm predicting that partner has a hand that makes for no minor suit losers on offense and a slow winner in a major on defense, so all games are down 1.
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Posted 2008-January-28, 15:47

5C for me as well. Double is penalty, no thanks.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2008-January-28, 16:07

5♣
That's impossible. No one can give more than one hundred percent. By definition that is the most anyone can give.
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Posted 2008-January-28, 16:47

5C stands out to me, maybe it's a save or maybe it's a make or maybe it pushes them to 5. This is a perfect hand to do it, nobody knows what is going on.
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Posted 2008-January-29, 03:49

Double: limit + values
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Posted 2008-January-29, 05:26

Jlall, on Jan 28 2008, 11:47 PM, said:

5C stands out to me, maybe it's a save or maybe it's a make or maybe it pushes them to 5. This is a perfect hand to do it, nobody knows what is going on.

Yes.

Don't understand the point of doubling - this doesn't look like a hand on which you particularly want to slow the auction down, nor a hand on which you want to defend 3Hx.
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Posted 2008-January-29, 05:29

I joint the 5♣ crowd. No need to bid 4♦ in-between because we're going to be on lead :)
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