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3H (pass) 5H

Poll: Without discussion, how would you interpret 3H (pass) 5H? (53 member(s) have cast votes)

Without discussion, how would you interpret 3H (pass) 5H?

  1. Preemptive (50 votes [94.34%])

    Percentage of vote: 94.34%

  2. Slam try (1 votes [1.89%])

    Percentage of vote: 1.89%

  3. Preemptive if the next hand bids; slam try if he passes (2 votes [3.77%])

    Percentage of vote: 3.77%

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Posted 2008-January-22, 11:53

ArtK78, on Jan 22 2008, 05:33 PM, said:

The fact that any good player would play this as anything BUT preemptive would surprise me.

I think there's a good case for both definitions (invite or pree). Sometimes RKCB isn't enough to uncover the solidity of a suit: say you have

Ax
x
AKQJT9
Axxx

and pard opens a vuln 3♥. If you RKCB and get 5♦ as an answer, you won't get to know whether pard has KQxxxxx or KQJTxxx for a suit. If in this case you have 3-5 as invite, pard will know to pass with hand 1 and bid 6 with hand 2.
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Posted 2008-January-22, 12:17

whereagles, on Jan 22 2008, 06:53 PM, said:

ArtK78, on Jan 22 2008, 05:33 PM, said:

The fact that any good player would play this as anything BUT preemptive would surprise me.

I think there's a good case for both definitions (invite or pree). Sometimes RKCB isn't enough to uncover the solidity of a suit: say you have

Ax
x
AKQJT9
Axxx

and pard opens a vuln 3♥. If you RKCB and get 5♦ as an answer, you won't get to know whether pard has KQxxxxx or KQJTxxx for a suit. If in this case you have 3-5 as invite, pard will know to pass with hand 1 and bid 6 with hand 2.

You can make a cuebid and jump to 5♥ to ask for trump quality though.
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