Raise, rebid, or reverse?
#21
Posted 2018-May-14, 00:29
#22
Posted 2018-May-14, 00:34
tritonium, on 2018-May-14, 00:01, said:
You would be wrong to do that. In any system.
London UK
#23
Posted 2018-May-14, 02:41
marklaf, on 2018-May-14, 00:29, said:
You can also stop if you play a lebensohl style arrangement over a reverse, and partner bids the "bad 3♦". The issue is at pairs that you can't play in spades in that situation which may score more when partner has 5♠3♦.
#24
Posted 2018-May-14, 02:47
You are all getting too excited. Partner may well have scraped together a response. He can bid again with a decent hand. Here he can pass 2♦ and get an easy top in this room.
#25
Posted 2018-May-14, 03:29
nekthen, on 2018-May-14, 02:47, said:
You are all getting too excited. Partner may well have scraped together a response. He can bid again with a decent hand. Here he can pass 2♦ and get an easy top in this room.
Sure, ..., but you will hopefully agree, that there are other hands, when game makes and 2D gets passed out.
Playing light reverses, light 3D rebids, for me the hand is strong enough to go with 3D, if your requirements
are higher, go with 2D. Be happy if you are the only one in 2D=, but hopefully you know, you will once in a
while be the only one, not in 3NT=.
Uwe Gebhardt (P_Marlowe)
#26
Posted 2018-May-14, 03:46
P_Marlowe, on 2018-May-14, 03:29, said:
Playing light reverses, light 3D rebids, for me the hand is strong enough to go with 3D, if your requirements
are higher, go with 2D. Be happy if you are the only one in 2D=, but hopefully you know, you will once in a
while be the only one, not in 3NT=.
Bridge is always a balance of probabilities. Yes, once in a while, I will lose. IMO I will win more often than I will lose and that is what matters. Also my partner will strain harder to bid again because the top end of my 2♦ is known to be high.
#27
Posted 2018-May-14, 03:54
nekthen, on 2018-May-14, 03:46, said:
yes.
nekthen, on 2018-May-14, 03:46, said:
which may result in going down more often.
But most important is, what works and with what one feels happy.
Uwe Gebhardt (P_Marlowe)
#28
Posted 2018-May-14, 03:59
nekthen, on 2018-May-14, 02:47, said:
You are all getting too excited. Partner may well have scraped together a response. He can bid again with a decent hand. Here he can pass 2♦ and get an easy top in this room.
Partner's hand was actually AQxxx, Jxx, x, xxxx you made 2♦, unfortunately opps made 4♠
#29
Posted 2018-May-14, 04:32
#32
Posted 2018-May-14, 05:11
rbforster, on 2018-May-13, 07:52, said:
♠KTx
♥KQ9
♦AKT9xx
♣x
Discussion welcome. I made my choice and subsequently wondered if I could have chosen better.
2♦ Yes you have 15 hcp but it doesn't merit a double jump in diamonds. You can't raise the spades as you only have three and partner
might only have a 4 card suit and a 4-3 fit in a major is not a consummation devoutly to be wished.. Bidding NTs is taboo because of the singleton. You can't reverse as you have the
neither the pointage(16+minimum) nor the distribution(5-4 minimum) to satisfy the requirements for a reverse.
All in all it comes down to a process of elimination. If Partner has anything further to say,he will bid again and you can then evaluate the situation in the
light of what that rebid is.For the present,you've done what you were asked to do,keep the bidding open to give partner a chance to further describe his hand
if need be.
- Dr Tarrasch(1862-1934)German Chess Grandmaster
Bridge is a game where you have two opponents...and often three(!)
"Any palooka can take tricks with Aces and Kings; the true expert shows his prowess
by how he handles the two's and three's" - Mollo's Hideous Hog
#33
Posted 2018-May-14, 05:27
msjennifer, on 2018-May-14, 04:41, said:
I should probably have added a meaningless J to the small hand, I would open the big hand a strong club (the intermediates and suit mean I treat it as 16) and then give a 1♠ positive response FG.
It's easy enough to get there in a competitive auction as you can appreciate the lack of club wastage, more difficult unopposed. 1♦-(2♣)-P-(P)-X-(P)-3♠ (middle way of 3 of bidding spades)-P-4♠ gets there without a particularly optimistic view, I might even show it as the best way of bidding spades in the context of being unable to X or bid 2♠ first time.
I've also played in partnerships where we would open the small hand 2♠ which would probably get there.
#36
Posted 2018-May-14, 07:27
#39
Posted 2018-May-14, 07:39
Cyberyeti, on 2018-May-14, 05:27, said:
It's easy enough to get there in a competitive auction as you can appreciate the lack of club wastage, more difficult unopposed. 1♦-(2♣)-P-(P)-X-(P)-3♠ (middle way of 3 of bidding spades)-P-4♠ gets there without a particularly optimistic view, I might even show it as the best way of bidding spades in the context of being unable to X or bid 2♠ first time.
I've also played in partnerships where we would open the small hand 2♠ which would probably get there.
Agree to disagree.