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The art of balancing

Poll: What's your reopening bid (55 member(s) have cast votes)

What's your reopening bid

  1. PASS (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  2. DBL (15 votes [27.27%])

    Percentage of vote: 27.27%

  3. 3NT (5 votes [9.09%])

    Percentage of vote: 9.09%

  4. 4CL (7 votes [12.73%])

    Percentage of vote: 12.73%

  5. 4DI (12 votes [21.82%])

    Percentage of vote: 21.82%

  6. 4HE (3 votes [5.45%])

    Percentage of vote: 5.45%

  7. 4NT (1 votes [1.82%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.82%

  8. 5DI (12 votes [21.82%])

    Percentage of vote: 21.82%

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#1 User is offline   Edmunte1 

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Posted 2007-February-17, 04:12

Playing in a strong team match, you're dealer, all vulnerable, and you pick

♠Qx
♥---
♦AKQ109xx
♣AJ10x

and biding goes
1♦ - (3♥)-pass-(pass)
?

Your choice?
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Posted 2007-February-17, 04:35

4d...next hand
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Posted 2007-February-17, 09:24

X.
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Posted 2007-February-17, 09:36

5D.

I don't want to risk partner misunderstadning 4N takeout and bidding 5C on xxx in clubs and x in diamonds. 4H I would think shows more in the way of spade tolerace.

I have a 3 1/2 loser hand so I will bid what seems to have a reasonable play. 4D puts too much pressure on partner to find the winning raise with many weak hands, IMO.
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Posted 2007-February-17, 13:54

4♦ is plenty. Pard realizes that I've shown a great hand and will raise with an excuse.
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Posted 2007-February-17, 23:20

I would probably bid 4D at the table, but thinking about it, pd may be sitting on a heart stack. I double, and pull 3S to 4D.

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Posted 2007-February-17, 23:36

I would consider 4♥. I would bid 4♦. Nothing else comes close.
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Posted 2007-February-18, 14:48

pbleighton, on Feb 18 2007, 12:20 AM, said:

I double, and pull 3S to 4D.

Peter

Ditto
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Posted 2007-February-18, 15:29

pclayton, on Feb 17 2007, 02:54 PM, said:

4♦ is plenty. Pard realizes that I've shown a great hand and will raise with an excuse.

I'm not sure partner over 4D can know hands like:

KJx, xxx, xxx, xxxx
xxx, xxxx, xx, K98x

are enough to justify game?
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Posted 2007-February-18, 18:56

I'd bid 5D. X seems misguided (do you really WANT partner to pass? I don't), and 4D is an underbid. In these auctions just assume partner has a little something and bid accordingly. We need very little for game here.
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Posted 2007-February-18, 20:06

I think Fred once posted the following rule for auctions where you are forced to make a high-level guess, and partner has neither shown nor denied values: play him for a moderate fit and one useful card.

Opposite that, we want to be in 5♦, so that's what I bid. (And this hand is a one-suiter, unless I have a lot of space to show my disparity of length.)
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Posted 2007-February-18, 21:15

Curious.I voted for 5♦ without comment.3others suggest 5♦ in their posts .Yet number of votes for 5♦ is 2.
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Posted 2007-February-18, 22:13

in a pickup game i have to bid 5d. in a regular partnership i bid 4h and pull 4s or 5c to 5d. i play this the same way as a lower level x as showing a strong 1 suited hand.
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Posted 2007-February-19, 00:32

I voted for 5D.
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Posted 2007-February-19, 03:19

5♦. Closer to 6 than to 4.

If I double, partner will play me for a 4153 (but I might as well be 4243) so he will almost certainly bid either 3♠ or pass. If he passes it rates to be bad and if he bids 4♠ it doesn't really matter. X wins if partner has six clubs and shortness in diamonds but that's too thin a gamble.
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Posted 2007-February-19, 07:21

I voted 4♦ but I'm feeling guilty about it now! B)
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Posted 2007-February-19, 08:48

Only two bids seems appropriate here. 5♦ and if partner will read it, 4NT where 4NT shows a minor two suiter with much better ♦'s than ♣'s. I would not double with this hand, and 4♥ leaves partner in the dark as to what your hand looks like. With such good ♦, i would probably forget 4NT on this one and just bid 5♦.
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Posted 2007-February-21, 01:17

Here was the full hand:
Scoring: IMP


I was south, my partener's choice was 3NT, beting for my ♥stopper. East doubled, showing a hand able to play 4♥, with some defense, me and West passed, and my p redoubled showing doubt (probably no ♥ stopper). I bid 4♦, all passed. At other table our opponents played 5♦ doubled =-750. Double dummy our opponens are cold for 5♥
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Posted 2007-February-21, 06:27

i think 3nt is a really bad bid.
on 4h my partner may not know what i have till the next bid but he or she will know then.
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Posted 2007-February-21, 07:46

5♦ here as well
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