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A series of choices What to open, do you cuebid, do you move forward?

Poll: A series of choices (23 member(s) have cast votes)

Playing 12-14 NT, do you agree with 1 Diamond and rebid 2 Diamonds?

  1. Yes (5 votes [21.74%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 21.74%

  2. Open 1 Diamond, rebid 1NT (7 votes [30.43%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 30.43%

  3. Open 1NT (11 votes [47.83%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 47.83%

Do you agree with a 4 Club cuebid?

  1. Yes (21 votes [91.30%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 91.30%

  2. No, prefer 4 Spades (2 votes [8.70%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 8.70%

What now?

  1. 4 Spades (13 votes [56.52%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 56.52%

  2. 4 NT (9 votes [39.13%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 39.13%

  3. 5 Clubs (1 votes [4.35%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 4.35%

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#1 User is offline   skaftij 

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Posted 2012-January-07, 14:49


If I have made this specific agreement, then I will keep the agreement.
A partner can convince me to play nearly anything, but if partner breaks agreements, then you will fairly fast reach the point, that I wont be interested in playing any longer. Stick to your agreements.
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Posted 2012-January-07, 15:15

What would not occur to me is to rebid 2 on such a suit. If partner passes 2 chances are you are not in a good contract. Among others partner may pass 2 with a 4 card heart suit.
Either open 1NT or rebid 1NT. The hand qualifies in my opinion for opening 1NT (15-17).
Cue bidding 4 is okay. But over 4 I would certainly not press on.
Partner is likely to misjudge because of the 2 rebid. With a singleton in he will devalue his hand and with Jxx or Qx he will believe there is a double fit.

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Posted 2012-January-07, 15:50

I'm ok with rebidding diamonds because of systemic reasons. 1NT is ok too.
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Posted 2012-January-07, 16:01

I couldn't vote for 'other' on the last poll: I would cue 5 over 4. I certainly wouldn't cue clubs again.
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Posted 2012-January-07, 16:21

opening 1d and rebidding 1n LIMITS the hand (to say 15-17
balanced) the 2d rebid can usually be made with a much
wider range of hands. The downside of not rebidding 1n
with this balanced hand is that p never knows you are so
balanced. Somewhere below or at game level the
one of the undefined hands need to define itself
and a sign off at 4s (over 4h) is a place to start
even though it is too late IMO.
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Posted 2012-January-08, 00:04

While the KQ tight is a negative, the two T and the reasonable 5 card suit make this seem as much like 15 as 14 to me. Being able to open 1 and support hearts and bid 1nt over 1 seems like a fine plan.

Over 3 a cue seems wise given the controls in your hand and the pretty good Ax support.

Given what you've shown so far, a cautious 4 seems right. There is some chance that you miss slam if partner has xx in diamonds with an otherwise good hand and reads your caution for quick diamond losers. But I think if slam is good, he'll probably make a move over 4 anyways.
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Posted 2012-January-08, 00:15

W/E. This pair should forget about all bidding problems until they stop making 2 bid on ATxxx :)
Now it's pure lottery, partner values his Qxx high and his Kxx as the nuts. There is no chance whatsover for intelligent slam bidding now so we can just as well pull the rkcb and punt 6 hoping his SI is based on general strength and not fit.
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Posted 2012-January-08, 04:00

View Postrhm, on 2012-January-07, 15:15, said:

.... With a singleton in he will devalue his hand and with Jxx or Qx he will believe there is a double fit.

Rainer Herrmann


Obviously, a singleton fits well with A10863 and Qx(x) is useful against KJ1083. Would you open the hand with 1NT with that Diamond holding?

If I have made this specific agreement, then I will keep the agreement.
A partner can convince me to play nearly anything, but if partner breaks agreements, then you will fairly fast reach the point, that I wont be interested in playing any longer. Stick to your agreements.
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Posted 2012-January-08, 10:50

Keycard. If for whatever reason 1D->2D is systemic you now have a maximum and partner is still interested. We have a solid trump Ace filler, diamond control, doubleton club which could be ensure a ruff or as a last resort maybe even the JT of hearts come into play.
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Posted 2012-January-08, 11:08

Would have opened 1N, now we have a normal keycard bid.
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Posted 2012-January-08, 15:03

Easy 1N opening and hate the 2 rebid although in some old school weak NT systems it's OK. I don't hate a 1N rebid but it's overstating the hand with a 14, a thin suit and about 2/3 of our points stuffed into short suits. The 10's are nice though.

Someone needs to step up and grab the reins in these auctions. I don't like 5 or 5 because it makes the auction difficult. Our hand is very useful - actually its the nuts, so I would just bid RKC.
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Posted 2012-January-10, 06:05

View Postskaftij, on 2012-January-08, 04:00, said:

Obviously, a singleton fits well with A10863 and Qx(x) is useful against KJ1083. Would you open the hand with 1NT with that Diamond holding?



I would not rebid diamonds even with this holding. I prefer a six card suit unless there seems to be no alternative. But rebidding diamonds is more sensible here. I still open 1NT.

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Posted 2012-January-10, 07:10

I would have opened 1NT downgrading the hand a tad because of KQ. 2D shows a 6 card suit for most. I assume the 3S call was forcing can be the only reason to cue 4C which I think is sensible enough. After 4H a simple 4S is plenty. Once the hand is downgraded from a strong NT, and we have advised partner we DO not hold a balanced hand 12-14 I think we have done enough damage to the bidding.
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