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Queen and three jacks

#1 User is offline   wclass___ 

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Posted 2011-December-30, 19:33

unfavourable, 2nd seat

void
QJ98xxx
J987
Jx
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Posted 2011-December-30, 19:45

This is a piece of junk. Still I'm willing to open 3H(7-4 is worth something) and pass throughout afterwards.
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Posted 2011-December-30, 19:53

Me too.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2011-December-30, 22:57

Pass, one opp has already passed and now prd may have good cards in his hands, i dont wanna pre-empt my prd.
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Posted 2011-December-31, 05:30

Although I have 7-4, I have 7 losers. At unfavourable partner will raise my preempt with three cover cards and you have to ask yourself if you want that. For me either the low road (2) or the high road (3) but leaning towards the low road. I am not passing and that seems to be the most important thing: If opps settle for some number of , you will be inclined to bid with this hand if you passed early. Better bid first and THEN pass.
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Posted 2011-December-31, 05:38

I'd probably bid 2H in a bad mood, 3H in a good mood. 2H feels pathetic with the nice shape and the heart intermediates but the vul and position are as wrong as you can get for making a light pre-empt - so it would totally depend on what I'm feeling like that day :)

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Posted 2011-December-31, 06:05

I would pass (other than in one partnership where I can open 2D showing a 'weak two in a major with a bad 7-card suit')
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Posted 2011-December-31, 09:25

The hand is extremely offensive. I would open 3H, but even the tamest of bidders should at least consider opening 2H.
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Posted 2011-December-31, 14:20

I've tried bidding 2H on hands like this for awhile and it just seems ineffective, so put me down for 3H. Pass seems very strange to me, not sure why I would want to play a style where a hand with 7 reasonable hearts and a spade void should pass.
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Posted 2011-December-31, 17:19

I would bid 2H
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Posted 2011-December-31, 21:07

if the bidding were to go say
p p p 1d
p 1h p 2d

even with my 4 dia I would rebid my 7 bagger in hearts
because it is our best shot at game. Thinking that way
we are probably best served by warning p about the
1 suited nature of our hand asap and start with

2h
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Posted 2012-January-01, 03:57

forget it lol
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Posted 2012-January-01, 07:55

I opened 3, which partner raised to 4 with

AKJ42
A2
Q854
Qx

and it went down 3.
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Posted 2012-January-01, 08:12

Is partner trained/agreed to ignore all but Spade Ace?
Demote all but A/K in minors?
Need to have Heart A/K/Qxx+ to raise?
Then I'll try 3H.
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Posted 2012-January-01, 14:47

IMO unfavourable sencond sit preempts are more descriptive than preemptive, I have no real descriptive bid avaible, so I would pass.

If having to pick between 3 and 2 I think 3 makes more justice to the offense potential of the hand.
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Posted 2012-January-01, 15:06

Even though it seems stupid to go a freely bid down 3, it's not like partner was passing 2H (imo), and even if he did, sounds like we might have gone down 1 in 2H anyway lol, so lose 3 or 5 is not a huge deal. On a better day partner would have the same hand, but LHO wouldn't be able to resist sticking in 3S with QT9xx x AK AT9xx. Unsurprisingly, preempting tends to be ineffective when partner has AKJxx in your void.
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Posted 2012-January-01, 16:27

3. I like my suit (good intermediates) and I have great shape. It's a bit light in terms of playing strength but if I open 2 and oppo overcall 3 partner is not likely to bid 4 when it's right. I also won't feel great on an auction like

p 2 2 3
3

where I'll feel I have to bid 4 but know that oppo are now reasonably well-placed to do the right thing compared with if I'd opened at the 3 level.
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Posted 2012-January-01, 17:43

View Postrogerclee, on 2012-January-01, 15:06, said:

Even though it seems stupid to go a freely bid down 3, it's not like partner was passing 2H (imo), and even if he did, sounds like we might have gone down 1 in 2H anyway lol, so lose 3 or 5 is not a huge deal.

If you pass you might get to 2. I see that wclass__ lost six tricks, but that's a bit unlucky - they have to find their ruff, and K has to be offside.

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Unsurprisingly, preempting tends to be ineffective when partner has AKJxx in your void.

True, but when RHO passes in first seat at favourable and you have a spade void, it's not such a surprise to find partner with length and strength in spades.
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Posted 2012-January-01, 17:47

The cards don't look at colours. A hand is offensive or defensive regardless of vulnerability and should be treated accordingly. Vulnerability only changes the level of opening and here 2H is perfectly reasonable.
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Posted 2012-January-06, 09:42

View Postgnasher, on 2012-January-01, 17:43, said:

I see that wclass__ lost six tricks, but that's a bit unlucky - they have to find their ruff, and K has to be offside.

He he. Actually if one opens with 2 then bidding would probably go:
2-[X]-XX-2[]
Pass-[Pass]-X-PPP,

which (obviously) makes. I am not sure my partner will understand ''we got a bit unlucky''. :rolleyes:
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