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Do you feel like bidding?

Poll: Do you feel like bidding? (31 member(s) have cast votes)

Your thoughts?

  1. 4C (it's a bidder's game!) (5 votes [16.13%])

    Percentage of vote: 16.13%

  2. Grudging pass (discretion is the better part of valor) (2 votes [6.45%])

    Percentage of vote: 6.45%

  3. Easy pass (I'm not ready to be committed) (21 votes [67.74%])

    Percentage of vote: 67.74%

  4. Double (takeout? penalty? action?) (3 votes [9.68%])

    Percentage of vote: 9.68%

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#1 User is offline   humilities 

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Posted 2012-August-16, 07:40

Matchpoints, We are NV, they are VUL, opponents are unknown. We play a pretty normal 2/1.

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1D P 1S (3H)
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Posted 2012-August-16, 07:56

In situations like this, I find it much easier to pass when partner still has a call coming.
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Posted 2012-August-16, 08:12

I wouldn't consider anything but pass. You have no idea even if it's our hand or what strain we might play in or at what level. It's hard to play 3NT or 3Hx when you bid 4C. Maybe defending 3H undoubled is right.

Furthermore xxx in H is the worst holding we can have and is another reason why bidding 4C is bad.
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Posted 2012-August-16, 08:12

View Postbillw55, on 2012-August-16, 07:56, said:

In situations like this, I find it much easier to pass when partner still has a call coming.

The question is what hands will partner pass when you'd want him to bid ? Axxx, Kxx, xxx, Kxx ? There are a lot of hands with 3 hearts and this sort of point count where partner can't bid again Qxxx, Axx, Jx, Kxxx where 5♣ is good and 3N will probably make.

I think it's close P/ToX, nothing else appeals. NV/V I might well double.

If you think partner reopens on those hands, consider how they play opposite the 3343 12 count you could easily hold on this sequence
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Posted 2012-August-16, 08:24

View Posthumilities, on 2012-August-16, 07:40, said:

We are NV, they are VUL,


View PostCyberyeti, on 2012-August-16, 08:12, said:

NV/V I might well double.

Those are the conditions given.

Our double is defined as very short in Partner's response suit, extra strength, and no suit of the appropriate length for a bid in that suit. It warns partner off rebidding his response suit. Is that called takeout? informative? action? I don't know what to call it but it looks like what I have.
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Posted 2012-August-16, 08:36

It's called penalty oriented and it looks bad.

I voted for double but I misread the auction, thinking partner had bid 1H and the opponents 3S. In that case we have a perfect (takeout!) double. On the actual auction we have a normal pass.
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Posted 2012-August-16, 08:45

View Posthan, on 2012-August-16, 08:36, said:

It's called penalty oriented and it looks bad.

Maybe for you, it's takeout for us.
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Posted 2012-August-16, 08:55

View PostCyberyeti, on 2012-August-16, 08:45, said:

Maybe for you, it's takeout for us.

Cyberyeti, you misread Han's post. He said the aquahombre's style is called "penalty oriented", not this his own style is called "penalty oriented".
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Posted 2012-August-16, 08:57

View Posthan, on 2012-August-16, 08:36, said:

It's called penalty oriented and it looks bad.

It doesn't look pretty, for sure. But considering I might have a rather normal 3-3-4-3 12 count for a pass, at least it warns partner against rebalancing with a pressure 3S bid when that is wrong. And I do have a few quick tricks with a good possibility that defending will be more profitable than declaring. If pard does bid 3S, it will be in the full knowledge of my lack of support and my extra strength, so I don't have to worry about that.

Partner could pull double to the right spot with certain minor suit lengths if double describes this. It would be nice to have a heart card, but oh, well.
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Posted 2012-August-16, 09:13

View Posthelene_t, on 2012-August-16, 08:55, said:

Cyberyeti, you misread Han's post. He said the aquahombre's style is called "penalty oriented", not this his own style is called "penalty oriented".


Yes, that's how I intended my post.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2012-August-16, 10:58

Double, have to show we've a decent hand. Unfortunate that with us having three hearts partner is unlikely to be able to have a penalty pass though.
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Posted 2012-August-16, 11:06

Pass? It's marginal to do anything if they had bid just 2♥.
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Posted 2012-August-16, 12:33

what a bad hand

Say we pass it around and partner doubles. Now what? I would just leave it in. Is that crazy?
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Posted 2012-August-16, 12:46

View Posthan, on 2012-August-16, 09:13, said:

Yes, that's how I intended my post.

Sorry, happens when people reply to a post without quoting any of it.
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Posted 2012-August-18, 14:46

Easy pass for me
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Posted 2012-August-18, 19:04

No I do not feel like bidding. 4C is insane by the way.
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