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#1 User is offline   MickyB 

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Posted 2008-February-08, 18:23

1♠-P-1NT-X
2♥-P-2S-3♦
P-P-3♥

What do you expect for 3♥? Does it make any difference if you are playing four-card majors?
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Posted 2008-February-08, 18:25

Clearly this shows the hand from that other thread:

♠xxx
♥Kxxxx
♦xx
♣QTx

I was wondering what to bid with this hand after 1NT...2♥. :P
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Posted 2008-February-08, 18:35

How about:

Kx AQx x xxxxxxx

?
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

- hrothgar
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Posted 2008-February-08, 18:43

han, on Feb 8 2008, 07:35 PM, said:

How about:

Kx AQx x xxxxxxx

?

That's a good example.
Please let me know about any questions or interest or bug reports about GIB.
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Posted 2008-February-08, 18:49

I was about to write that it is impossible but Han's example makes sense.
The world would be such a happy place, if only everyone played Acol :) --- TramTicket
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Posted 2008-February-08, 23:31

I like 3-4, would never bid this way with 2-3
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Posted 2008-February-09, 01:47

Jlall, on Feb 9 2008, 06:31 AM, said:

I like 3-4, would never bid this way with 2-3

Agree. Can't see why we should be at the 3-level on two 7-card fits.
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Posted 2008-February-09, 04:22

This thread has made me feel better B)

My instinct at the table was that partner must be 3=4, it didn't seem terribly likely but I hadn't come up with anything more sensible. He was actually trying to make a game-try for 4♠ - Kxx AJT xxxx xxx. Perhaps that meaning is better iff you are playing 4cM.
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Posted 2008-February-09, 04:58

Isn't Kx AQx x xxxxxxx a competitive double? "Partner, what to do?"
So freeing 3H for "It's our hand, but where?"
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Posted 2008-February-09, 09:06

I can't see Xing 3D in that auction as "competitive." That looks like a "they're down" double.
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Posted 2008-February-09, 10:47

I would never bid 1NT with such a hand, but then, I don't play 4-card majors.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2008-February-09, 17:30

MickyB, on Feb 9 2008, 11:22 AM, said:

He was actually trying to make a game-try for 4♠ - Kxx AJT xxxx xxx. Perhaps that meaning is better iff you are playing 4cM.

One round earlier he tried to sign off in 2S. Since then, he has learned (a) that his LHO has a good hand, and (b) that his partner didn't want to compete over 3D. Playing 3H as a game try doesn't seem very sensible, regardless of your system.
... 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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