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#1 User is offline   nige1 

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Posted 2012-April-09, 07:50

Vul vs not vul, in 1st seat, holding: QJTxxxxx - - JTxxx, what do you open? Please give marks out of 10 to Pass, 1, 2, 3, 4, other. (Please assume that 3N is gambling with a minor and that 4 bids are natural pre-empts).
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Posted 2012-April-09, 07:56

Either 4 or pass, depending on form of scoring and/or my mood...
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Posted 2012-April-09, 09:31

When no bid fits, I often try no bid. This will bring me at odds with the school of thought that we should always be "doing something", but oh well.
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Posted 2012-April-09, 09:40

I would bid 4. Partner knows that my preempts are far from solid, so he will not get too excited.
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Posted 2012-April-09, 09:59

4=10 all else = 0
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Posted 2012-April-09, 11:03

4 definitely gets a 10. I guess 3 is the next best bid? It feels like it deserves a 1.5 or so. 2 and 1 and pass all get 0 from me.
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Posted 2012-April-09, 11:13

4=10, Pass (intending to bid some number of spades later)=9, 3=8, 2=0, 1=-10.

You have a 5-loser hand, the opponents are unlikely to double you because of a spade stack, and if partner has anything in the blacks you might make 4X when 6 or 7 of a red suit is on for them.

This is not a preempt in my mind as much as a gambling bid: gambling because a lot of the time I'll make the contract and get doubled and make a gigantic swing.

I like 4 better at IMPs because it's a fairly safe bid and also a fairly profitable bid on an expectation basis. To me the only major negatives are when partner has a ton of red points, or when partner is short spades and they are ruffing partner's high clubs (e.g., 5 making with 4 in the toilet.

Also, technically, this is 2 voids rather than 3. A 3-void hand has a guaranteed grand slam. ;-)
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Posted 2012-April-09, 11:40

4 gets the Bo Derek treatment B-) -- with this shape, check vulnerability at the door.
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Posted 2012-April-09, 13:25

Playing Namyats im happy to open 4S. If not however I prefer 3S to 4S at this vul/nV.

4Sx can easily go for -800, also partner will often raise to 6S and we will have no play. I really hate pass,1S,2S
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Posted 2012-April-09, 17:55

4S. This is worth 10. All else is a 0 for me.
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Posted 2012-April-09, 18:02

I am much more consistent at predicting the majority action than taking the majority action.
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Posted 2012-April-09, 19:13

Well at least one well-known expert thinks you would have to be practically brain dead to open this 3S (which is perhaps the reason this thread exists).
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Posted 2012-April-09, 23:39

pass, then 4S

I'm afraid that bidding 4S will get an immediate raise of 6S by partner. Also, passing out this hand is not a bad thing, especially 4S may not be made. However, once the opponents come in, the situation becomes clear. I will bid 4S to shut their hearts game out.
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Posted 2012-April-10, 18:05

View Postfuburules3, on 2012-April-09, 19:13, said:

Well at least one well-known expert thinks you would have to be practically brain dead to open this 3S (which is perhaps the reason this thread exists).
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When I suggested this hand as a possible 3 opener, my friend, Michael Rosenberg opined "if you open three spades on 8-0-0-5 you have THREE voids - two in your hand, and one in your head." :), On reflection, he may be right, again :(
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Posted 2012-April-10, 22:53

View Postmikl_plkcc, on 2012-April-09, 23:39, said:

pass, then 4S

I'm afraid that bidding 4S will get an immediate raise of 6S by partner. Also, passing out this hand is not a bad thing, especially 4S may not be made. However, once the opponents come in, the situation becomes clear. I will bid 4S to shut their hearts game out.


Not sure 4S at your second turn will achieve this. Giving the hand to Wbridge5 and coming in with 4S on a number of random deals for the remaining hands, they always find 5 of a red suit which is usually the par score. Bidding 4S on the first turn doesn't always achieve this on the same deals, but has a high success rate.

If 5H/D is going off, 4S is making.

Sample size is only 15 though so I may be wrong.
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Posted 2012-April-11, 02:19

at my local club they open this 2 because they misscount only 4 losers.
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Posted 2012-April-13, 00:53

Are there five suits? (Post title)
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Posted 2012-April-13, 01:05

View PostQuantumcat, on 2012-April-13, 00:53, said:

Are there five suits? (Post title)

It is a reference to a comment by Michael Rosenberg in a Bridgewinners thread. The third void is in the head of the player who chooses a 3-level opening bid with an 8-0-0-5 hand.
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Posted 2012-April-13, 08:43

View Postbenlessard, on 2012-April-09, 13:25, said:

4Sx can easily go for -800


I agree it can, but I disagree that it can easily. It would be quite unlucky.

View Postaguahombre, on 2012-April-09, 18:02, said:

I am much more consistent at predicting the majority action than taking the majority action.


If you know so well what the top players think, you could try to learn from it. Is that such a strange thought?
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Posted 2012-April-13, 08:49

I've seen this sort of hand a couple of times before and experts have always told me that they think 4 is the only bid. I haven't gone wrong following this advice yet (although obviously haven't had many chances to put it into practice!)
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