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#1 User is offline   CSGibson 

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Posted 2010-July-30, 08:11

Scoring: IMP

1♠-(4♣)-?


Fllight B GNTs. Your style is 2/1 with light openings. What's your bidding plan with this?

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Posted 2010-July-30, 08:19

4♦ over 4♣. If partner retreats to 4♠, I think I'm worth another bid: 5♣.
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Posted 2010-July-30, 08:21

I would give up over 4♠, if partner doesn't have a diamond fit for us this is likely a tricky hand to play, if suits break badly.
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Posted 2010-July-30, 08:51

basically the preempt did its job and I can't tell if I am going way overboard so I stick to a conservative 4♠ call
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Posted 2010-July-30, 09:13

CSGibson, on Jul 30 2010, 10:11 AM, said:

Scoring: IMP

1♠-(4♣)-?


Fllight B GNTs. Your style is 2/1 with light openings. What's your bidding plan with this?

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I choose 5♣.
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Posted 2010-July-30, 09:21

I bid 4♠? Why are people so eager to push past game? Any diamond finesse is likely off, diamonds and spades are less likely than normal to be breaking, we have a doubleton club. And what do we do when LHO bids 4♣ over 4♦ and partner doesn't even know about our spade fit? Or partner raises and we miss 4♠?
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Posted 2010-July-30, 09:54

Dealer: North
Vul: N/S
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♠ ATx
♥ xx
♦ AQ9xxx
♣ Ax
1♠-(4♣)-?

I am hard pressed to imagine too many hands where the 5 level is not safe thus I
will begin with 4N (this has the benefit of showing spade support right away)

If p shows me TWO with Q I bid 6D asking them to bid 7 with dia K (if they bid 7d
showing at least kxx i will pass since 6d has far less risk of opening club ruff)
(admittedly we probably will not make 7 if p has a total minimum due to expected bad breaks) but that is what preempts are for.

If P shows me TWO w/o queen I will settle for 6S

If P shows me any less I will settle for 5S p can still bid slam with some monstrous
hands knowing i was looking for slam like say KQJxxxx KQJxxxx void void.

Another benefit of 4n right away is that I learn something useful about the hand if LHO bid 5c or 6c (assuming we are playing PODI (my favorite) or DOPI).
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Posted 2010-July-30, 10:18

Hard pressed to find a hand where the 5 level isn't safe? xxxxx AKQJ KJ KQ in spades? Or do I need to find a hand with less than 19? How about a little less weird Kxxxx KQJxx Kx x? It's very easy to find hands where the 5 level isn't safe!
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Posted 2010-July-30, 10:27

Would probably have bummed 4S over 4C. The problem with bidding again after the hidden is: maybe partner was thinking I did what I did because I had what I had.
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