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#1 User is offline   dwar0123 

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Posted 2012-April-16, 16:19

Playing 2/1 with 5 card majors.


2♣ correctly alerted as drury.

First time I ever opened a 4 card major and it was a really crappy one at that, but the look on my partners face when I passed 2♣, well it was online, but I bet it was priceless :)

I dunno, I thought it was amusing and not entirely without merit, was a really good board but that might just be resulting.
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Posted 2012-April-16, 17:45

Might make the pass with better clubs.

Much as I like to open junk in 3rd, I'd pass. I'm not jonesing for a spade lead with A-empty 4th. There's the preemption, but you can say that about any hand with four spades.
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Posted 2012-April-16, 18:33

Drury was, until a very few years ago, illegal in England, as it can be used as a psyche control with long clubs in a weak hand.
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Posted 2012-April-18, 10:38

View PostVampyr, on 2012-April-16, 18:33, said:

Drury was, until a very few years ago, illegal in England, as it can be used as a psyche control with long clubs in a weak hand.


Which was always a ridiculous argument. I mean by that argument stayman could be defined a psyche controlling when you open 1N in third on a weak hand with long clubs. Whenever you psche, bad things can happen, and also good things can happen. I can only imagine that the RA felt that after psyche bad things should happen. :)
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Posted 2012-April-18, 14:59

Why on earth would you randomly pass 2C when you know that partner has 3+ spades and you can play in 2S?
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Posted 2012-April-20, 04:59

Well, it is a gamble, but 3+ spades may mean only a 4/3 trump suit if it's only 3 spades, which may or may not be worse than what you have in clubs, and so it's a risk in either case.
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Posted 2012-April-20, 05:41

View PostAyunuS, on 2012-April-20, 04:59, said:

Well, it is a gamble, but 3+ spades may mean only a 4/3 trump suit if it's only 3 spades, which may or may not be worse than what you have in clubs, and so it's a risk in either case.


Yes and it could be a 5-1 or even a 5-0 club fit. Agree with Han. Passing is not a gamble, it is poor bridge.
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Posted 2012-April-20, 05:42

I would have opened 1♣...
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Posted 2012-April-22, 00:36

View Postgwnn, on 2012-April-20, 05:42, said:

I would have opened 1♣...

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