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#1 User is offline   gnasher 

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Posted 2012-October-24, 16:54


IMPs. You don't play Leaping Michaels in this auction.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2012-October-24, 17:13

3♦
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Posted 2012-October-24, 17:16

I would try 5♦.
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Posted 2012-October-24, 17:40

3♦. And where is the two-suiter we were promised in the thread title?
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Posted 2012-October-24, 18:26

3♦
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Posted 2012-October-24, 18:31

OK, if I'm playing this obscure "4♦ natural" treatment, I'll do that.

But if it's wrong, I'm not to blame.
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Posted 2012-October-24, 18:45

4♦
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Posted 2012-October-24, 22:30

Easy 4D and this is why I don't play leaping michaels in this auction even though the rest of the world thinks its right for some reason.
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Posted 2012-October-24, 23:26

5♦.

My normal approach is to apply the rule of 2 and 3, then bid 1 more. I see no reason to depart from that here.
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Posted 2012-October-25, 00:41

4♦

Partner will know what to do next.

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Posted 2012-October-25, 01:28

View Postlalldonn, on 2012-October-24, 17:40, said:

And where is the two-suiter we were promised in the thread title?

That was just a ploy to attract more visitors to my thread.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2012-October-25, 09:53

View Postgnasher, on 2012-October-24, 16:54, said:

You don't play Leaping Michaels in this auction.


Or with this distribution?

This might be a little off-the-wall, but what if you double, then over partner's expected 2NT(Leb) response, bid 3♦. Might this bring spades into the picture?

Of course this strategy will backfire when partner doesn't cooperate and instead chooses an opening lead...
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Posted 2012-October-25, 10:06

View PostVampyr, on 2012-October-25, 09:53, said:

Or with this distribution?

This might be a little off-the-wall, but what if you double, then over partner's expected 2NT(Leb) response, bid 3♦. Might this bring spades into the picture?

Of course this strategy will backfire when partner doesn't cooperate and instead chooses an opening lead...


Plan the play on a heart lead.

It backfires when partner bids 4♠ and goes for 1100 instead of 5♦ going for 200.
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Posted 2012-October-25, 10:12

View PostPhilKing, on 2012-October-25, 10:06, said:

Plan the play on a heart lead.

It backfires when partner bids 4♠ and goes for 1100 instead of 5♦ going for 200.


True, but I think my proposed plan pretty much denies 5 spades. That's not saying that it's a good idea, just that it may give partner some clue about my actual distribution.

Of course there may be a standard or more logical use for this auction. If so, I don't know what it is.
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Posted 2012-October-25, 10:20

I like 4♦. LHO probably bids 4♥ and partner will know what to do.

5♦ is unilateral. 3♦ is wimpy and lets LHO make a game try.

Any call to introduce spades is clueless.
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Posted 2012-October-25, 10:25

View PostVampyr, on 2012-October-25, 10:12, said:

True, but I think my proposed plan pretty much denies 5 spades. That's not saying that it's a good idea, just that it may give partner some clue about my actual distribution.

Of course there may be a standard or more logical use for this auction. If so, I don't know what it is.


This sequence will almost never happen unless LHO has died mid-auction.
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Posted 2012-October-25, 11:05

View PostVampyr, on 2012-October-25, 09:53, said:

Or with this distribution?

I wasn't suggesting that we would want to bid Leaping Michaels with this. I was trying to forestall comments like "I can't bid 4♦ because it's Leaping Michaels."
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Posted 2012-October-25, 11:28

Actually I feel dumb now for not bidding 4♦.
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Posted 2012-October-25, 11:40

View Postgnasher, on 2012-October-25, 11:05, said:

I wasn't suggesting that we would want to bid Leaping Michaels with this. I was trying to forestall comments like "I can't bid 4♦ because it's Leaping Michaels."


Ah, right.
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