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How much do you need to bid? IMPS

Poll: Your call? (43 member(s) have cast votes)

Your call?

  1. Pass (7 votes [16.28%])

    Percentage of vote: 16.28%

  2. 3[SP] (26 votes [60.47%])

    Percentage of vote: 60.47%

  3. Prefer 3[SP] on previous round (10 votes [23.26%])

    Percentage of vote: 23.26%

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Posted 2008-July-09, 11:29

brianshark, on Jul 9 2008, 05:56 PM, said:

I'm pretty sure that partner can look at his 19 count, look at our initial pass and look at the opponents invitational auction and infer that we are broke.

That approach places quite a lot of faith in both a third-hand opening at favourable, and an artificial raise in a position where psyching is hardly unknown.

I don't really see any benefit to bidding 3♠ immediately both on a shapely Yarborough and on a better hand: you're expecting to get another go, so why not use that to distinguish between hands where you want partner to bid 3NT on his balanced 19-count and hands where you don't?
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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