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#1 User is offline   Cascade 

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Posted 2009-October-08, 02:50

Scoring: IMP

(3♣) PASS (PASS) ?


In case you are wondering I don't think there is a twist here either.
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Posted 2009-October-08, 02:54

pass for lack of anything better to do.
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Posted 2009-October-08, 04:04

I'm doubling. I hope the spade fit is 5-2 and not 4-2 (or 3-2...).

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


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Posted 2009-October-08, 05:11

If I trust the preemptor to hold a 7 card suit I'll bid 3N.

I fancy my chances opposite as little as Kxxx, Q10x, Qxxx, Jx.

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Posted 2009-October-08, 07:47

Cascade, on Oct 8 2009, 03:50 AM, said:

Scoring: IMP

(3♣) PASS (PASS) ?


In case you are wondering I don't think there is a twist here either.

There are no good choices but you have to play the odds and X. There are those who advocate 3NT with hands like this. Gambling on partner having a ♣ stopper reasoning that the preemptor never has a solid suit. That should be enough to perhaps change the mind of those who refuse to preempt with
Scoring: IMP

(3♣) PASS (PASS) ?


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Posted 2009-October-08, 08:32

Policy pass, cannot handle the expected 3S by partner. Please try 3NT with this hand if I am the first-seat vulnerable preemptor.
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Posted 2009-October-08, 08:38

In the UK almost everybody opens 3N with AKQxxxx and out, and that is a large part of the logic.
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Posted 2009-October-08, 09:40

Double. But partner has xfers: 3H->S then I try 3N; jump 4S can play if S-Hx.
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Posted 2009-October-08, 12:56

Double and try 3NT over 3♠. This is a good hand in the balancing seat so I think we have to do something.
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Posted 2009-October-08, 13:39

Even though I pass I can actually understand double. However, bidding 3NT over 3♠ instead of passing it..... I'll just be nice and not comment except to say I don't get it?!?
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Posted 2009-October-08, 17:19

Annoying, but I'd try a double. Good things might happen, if not partner will get some training in handling a 4-2.
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Posted 2009-October-08, 17:52

Pass. 3NT is absurd; you have no stopper and no source of tricks.
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Posted 2009-October-08, 23:26

Against Italian players I pass; against Australian players I think I have to bid - I'ma X it.
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