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Another watcha gonna do hand This one ain't in the book, either

Poll: What call do you make over rho's 1H bid? (40 member(s) have cast votes)

What call do you make over rho's 1H bid?

  1. Pass (10 votes [25.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 25.00%

  2. 2 Clubs (16 votes [40.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 40.00%

  3. Double (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  4. 1NT (13 votes [32.50%])

    Percentage of vote: 32.50%

  5. Other (please describe) (1 votes [2.50%])

    Percentage of vote: 2.50%

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#21 User is offline   helene_t 

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Posted 2007-January-23, 04:19

gwnn, on Jan 23 2007, 11:05 AM, said:

No, but really, who can construct a hand that shan't reopen with X or 1♠ and 3NT is a good 40% game?

This depends on your reopening criteria. I like to let opps play 1m when I think the board is likely to belong to the opps and they are likely to have a better denomination. With a 2335 and 11 points I would like to pass, but this requires p to act aggresively in direct seat.
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Posted 2007-January-23, 04:53

what's the probability to have partner have 11 points and 3 hearts? now, really.
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Posted 2007-January-23, 15:57

2♥ cue bid
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Posted 2007-January-23, 16:23

Common sort of problem. 1NT ugly but practical
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Posted 2007-January-23, 16:49

two calls come to mind:

*cough* 1nt
and
*grunt* pass.

barring that, a smooth 1n. i have a spade honor, don't i?
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Posted 2007-January-23, 19:28

I guess people might be wondering what happened on the hand.

First of all, I want to thank all who answered for taking the time to respond.

I elected to overcall 1NT and played it there, making +180 against, shall we say, less-than-optimum defense. My lho elected to lead her partner's suit as opposed to her AT6th spade suit (that lho elected to not bid). My lovely partner tabled
♠ 97xx
♥ T 3
♦ J x
♣ A T x x x

My rho elected to play the ♥ King ("3rd hand high"- of course) when I played low from the dummy (I had a feeling he would do so), and Clubs broke 2-1.
+180 was worth about 0.8 imps at the time. (it would have been +150 had lho led spade: rho had KQ tight, or +120 had the spades been 5-3, not such a good result.)

I am not a results player, so I really don't care much about the actual results on this hand. I was more interested to see what action, if any, that people would take over the 1♥ opening including whether or not anyone would support a 1NT overcall. (I, personally, like to overcall or open 1NT as much as makes sense because it often makes things easier on partner. Who was it that said "rules were made to be broken"?)

Kudos to those who overcalled 2♣ on this hand with that yucky 5-card suit, and would have then been able to reach the cold 5♣ contract (assuming clubs broke and the heart king was onside).

Again, thanks to y'all.


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Posted 2007-January-23, 20:15

hmm somewhat shocking. we have 16 hcp, unbalanced and bid our longest suit first. hmmmmm
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