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8 diamonds in the passout seat

Poll: Simple: Do you balance? (25 member(s) have cast votes)

Do you balance?

  1. Yes (20 votes [80.00%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 80.00%

  2. No (5 votes [20.00%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 20.00%

If your answer was yes, what do you bid

  1. X (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  2. 3D (20 votes [80.00%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 80.00%

  3. 4D (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  4. 5D (1 votes [4.00%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 4.00%

  5. Something else (4 votes [16.00%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 16.00%

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Posted 2012-December-27, 18:24

I'm passing and I accept that i'm in the minority.

I have a 7 loser hand, stiff stiff in the majors and partner couldn't bid!

If he has a stack and great values and was waiting for the double then he's going to pay for being optimistic.

I've seen this before, I bid 3 opener bids 3 and now they find 4 and partner wants a piece relying on me to have defensive tricks (K a maybe) I suspect I run to 5 whacked -1 or 2

At this vul, with partner passing I need a miracle to make game, pards clearly has 4 or 5 so 2 is where I'll play.
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Posted 2012-December-27, 23:26

View Postrhm, on 2012-December-27, 16:20, said:

Aren't there hands where 5 must have better chances than 3NT?
I am not 100% certain whether this hand qualifies.
My guess though is, it does.
However, our entry situation is precarious and partner does not know this. If diamonds do not establish we are probably down a lot in 3NT.
Even without a DBL this could be quite expensive.
Diamond contracts are unlikely to be expensive, even if they go down.

Rainer Herrmann


Yes and true. I may be very wrong obv, I have no experience with a hand like this, I think I'm just more optimistic about 3n > 5d here than most people itt for some reason. Maybe not justified.
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