[kgr]

Scoring: IMP

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(1♥)-2♠-(Pas)-2NT
(3♥)-3♠-(Pas)-?
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2♠=weak, 6 card
3♠=Probably partner is not very weak, expecting 8 to 10 pts now.
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Do you agree with 2NT (No special agreements about it)? What do you bid now?

[inquiry]

I tend not to hang partner for preempting at these colors. At equal vul, I would bid on, but we are not vul, they are vul and this is imps? Partner's hand can be a disaster. In general we may not even have the six spade tricks we are hoping for. For one thing, partner could have held a jack high suit. Even with K-sixth, LHO 3♥ bid might suggest a a void in spades so we maybe losing a spade to Jxxx on the right. However, partners 3♠ bid suggest he has a good suit (well, we are looking at AQx so how good can it be?)

So we will have six spade tricks, and we get either small heart or heart AK and heart on the go, that gives us 7 tricks. If partner has Ax of clubs? Ok there is 9 tricks. Ax of diamonds? Not good enough. Kx of diamonds, not good enough. And should RHO have Ax or Kx of hearts, 3NT is dead dead dead.

I pass 3♠ and hope we can make it.

[gwnn]

I pass 2♠. I have a bad hand.

[whereagles]

Pass. What was 2NT for??

[skjaeran]

I might have passed last round, or raised to 3♠. Whatever 2NT is supposed to mean, I haven't got it.

I'm certainly passing now.

[Cascade]

I bid too much already.

[Codo]

skaeran, on Mar 3 2008, 12:40 AM, said:

I might have passed last round, or raised to 3♠. Whatever 2NT is supposed to mean, I haven't got it.

I'm certainly passing now.

It surely meant you have: AQx, Qtx, Qxxx, Kxx so surprinsingly it showed exactly what you had.

But without this special agreement, I strongly agree with your vote. This was a wtp pass last round to me and is it now again.
We may even had made 2 Spade with our hand as dummy.

[P_Marlowe]

Pass.

As always, partnership knowledge is important, know
your partner / partnership agreement, and you will be
able to get this one right.

Unless you play intermediate jump overcalls you should
pass 2S. You have at best 3 tricks for partner, on a sunny
day maybe 4.

Assuming partner made a normal weak jump overcall
green vs. red, he may already be prepared to go -3, which
still leaves you one trick short, ... on a sunny day.

With kind regards
Marlowe

[kgr]

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I did bid 3NT. This time my (bad) bid was succesful.

[mikeh]

Bidding in search of game with a decent but flat 13 count after either a weak 2 or a weak jump overcall is a common non-expert mistake. We are taught early on to like holding opening hands... learning when to say the 'magic word' is an important step. The reality is that bad bridge costs... it costs at the moment when it gets what it deserves. It costs even more, in the long term, when it works... because we remember our triumphs more than we do our failures, and we tend to attribute our triumphs to good judgment on our part and our failures to bad luck.

[kgr]

mikeh, on Mar 4 2008, 03:00 AM, said:

It costs even more, in the long term, when it works... because we remember our triumphs more than we do our failures, and we tend to attribute our triumphs to good judgment on our part and our failures to bad luck.

trying to avoid that by posting the hand here and let everybody say how very bad it was