BBO Discussion Forums: 1S or 2N? - BBO Discussion Forums

Jump to content

  • 2 Pages +
  • 1
  • 2
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

1S or 2N?

Poll: 1S or 2N? (37 member(s) have cast votes)

Your bid

  1. 1 spade (4 votes [10.81%])

    Percentage of vote: 10.81%

  2. 2N (10 votes [27.03%])

    Percentage of vote: 27.03%

  3. 2 spades (23 votes [62.16%])

    Percentage of vote: 62.16%

Vote Guests cannot vote

#1 User is offline   jillybean 

  • hooked
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 10,136
  • Joined: 2003-November-15
  • Gender:Female
  • Location:Vancouver, Canada
  • Interests:Multi

Posted 2010-November-09, 14:23

1st seat, you hold

♠KQ75,♥K9,♦AKJ73,♣K8


1♦:1♥
?

What is your bid now? Both vote and explain your choice please.
"And no matter what methods you play, it is essential, for anyone aspiring to learn to be a good player, to learn the importance of bidding shape properly." MikeH
0

#2 User is offline   Bbradley62 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 6,542
  • Joined: 2010-February-01
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Brooklyn, NY, USA

Posted 2010-November-09, 14:33

2♠, since 1♠ is limited and I have more than the limit.
1

#3 User is offline   bd71 

  • PipPipPipPip
  • Group: Full Members
  • Posts: 491
  • Joined: 2009-September-17
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Suburban Philadelphia

Posted 2010-November-09, 14:44

Agree with 2♠. 2N advantage is to right-side what may be our best game, but that could still happen later regardless. But 2N might forever lose a chance at a diamond slam as partner likely won't anticipate 5 diamonds after we have shown both 4 spades and a "balanced" hand.
0

#4 User is offline   Fluffy 

  • World International Master without a clue
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 17,404
  • Joined: 2003-November-13
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:madrid

Posted 2010-November-09, 16:15

I don't have strong arguments for one of the other, you'd better worry about bigger mistakes.
BridgeGod: my personal website with interactive problems and articles
0

#5 User is offline   nigel_k 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 2,207
  • Joined: 2009-April-26
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Wellington, NZ

Posted 2010-November-09, 16:50

Agree with 2♠. If you play 2♠ as artificial GF then you should play 1♠ as forcing so I would do that. Apart from the shape, it is too strong for a 2NT rebid (KNR = 20.7) so you should have opened 2NT if planning to bid that way.
http://bridgethoughts.blogspot.com
0

#6 User is offline   hrothgar 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 15,488
  • Joined: 2003-February-13
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Natick, MA
  • Interests:Travel
    Cooking
    Brewing
    Hiking

Posted 2010-November-09, 17:15

2♠ shows shape and strength...
2N protects my Kx in Clubs (which is the marked lead if I reverse)

Mark me down for 2♠ however, I don't have a strong objection to 2N
Alderaan delenda est
0

#7 User is offline   the hog 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 10,728
  • Joined: 2003-March-07
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Laos
  • Interests:Wagner and Bridge

Posted 2010-November-09, 20:26

I play 1S as forcing and so would bid that. If 1S were not forcing, I would bid 2S.
"The King of Hearts a broadsword bears, the Queen of Hearts a rose." W. H. Auden.
0

#8 User is offline   Siegmund 

  • Alchemist
  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 1,764
  • Joined: 2004-June-15
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Beside a little lake in northwestern Montana
  • Interests:Creator of the 'grbbridge' LaTeX typesetting package.

Posted 2010-November-09, 20:50

I prefer 2NT - get it played from the right side, and get the strength specified fairly exactly - but it helps if partners are aware of this tendency so they will check back rather than just raise notrump when they have 4 spades.

I wouldn't fault anybody for preferring 2S if that's their style.
0

#9 User is offline   mtvesuvius 

  • Vesuvius the Violent Volcano
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 3,216
  • Joined: 2008-December-04
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Tampa-Area, Florida
  • Interests:SLEEPING

Posted 2010-November-09, 20:53

2♠. By opening this 1♦, I made a commitment to showing this as a two-suited hand. I am much too strong for 2N here, if my plan was to show a BAL hand, I would have opened 2N to begin with.
Yay for the "Ignored Users" feature!
0

#10 User is offline   655321 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 2,502
  • Joined: 2007-December-22

Posted 2010-November-09, 21:39

Yep, 2♠ not 2NT.
That's impossible. No one can give more than one hundred percent. By definition that is the most anyone can give.
0

#11 User is offline   TylerE 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 2,760
  • Joined: 2006-January-30

Posted 2010-November-09, 21:54

2N. Good to play a 3♣ checkback here so you can backdoor into the major fits.
0

#12 User is offline   mikestar13 

  • PipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Full Members
  • Posts: 648
  • Joined: 2010-October-27
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:San Bernardino, CA USA

Posted 2010-November-09, 22:20

2NT if you have a checkback available, 1♠ if forcing, otherwise 2♠.
0

#13 User is offline   ggwhiz 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 3,952
  • Joined: 2008-June-23
  • Gender:Male

Posted 2010-November-09, 22:34

bd71 makes a good point about potentially missing a 6 diamond contract but I'm bidding 2nt as the best general slam chance, protecting my double kings in nt, spades (after checkback) or diamonds.

Right game, right sided may matter but probably not. I'm into making sure that any slam is declared from my side.

If we get some quantitative 4nt thing going, I can leap to 6 diamonds with this.

Of course if pard has AJ in both round suits, I've just wrong sided it but it won't be the first time, or the second or.......
When a deaf person goes to court is it still called a hearing?
What is baby oil made of?
0

#14 User is offline   jillybean 

  • hooked
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 10,136
  • Joined: 2003-November-15
  • Gender:Female
  • Location:Vancouver, Canada
  • Interests:Multi

Posted 2010-November-09, 23:59

I bid 1♠ here, forcing. This bid was fine until we added XYZ (corrected).

1♦:1♥
1♠:2♣*

2♣ forces 2♦ which partner can pass, so now I am forced to bid 3N.
No big problem, I'm happy to bid 2n or 2♠ with this hand. I like 2♠
Are there any more catches to xyz ?
"And no matter what methods you play, it is essential, for anyone aspiring to learn to be a good player, to learn the importance of bidding shape properly." MikeH
0

#15 User is offline   mohitz 

  • PipPipPipPip
  • Group: Full Members
  • Posts: 357
  • Joined: 2008-May-19
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:India

Posted 2010-November-10, 01:16

Partner knows how to play bridge too. If it is right for us to bid NT, we will surely get a chance later. As pointed out, bidding 2N makes it difficult to reach diamond slam and also is an underbid.
All your ace are belong to us!
0

#16 User is offline   gwnn 

  • Csaba the Hutt
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 13,027
  • Joined: 2006-June-16
  • Gender:Male
  • Interests:bye

Posted 2010-November-10, 02:36

jilly, over 2C you have a perfect 2N rebid: maximum hand that is balancedish with 5 diams and 4 spades.
... and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic.
      George Carlin
0

#17 User is offline   han 

  • Under bidder
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 11,797
  • Joined: 2004-July-25
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Posted 2010-November-10, 03:39

I think mtvesuvius said it well.

Disagree with gwnn's comment, 1D, 1S and then 2NT is not enough. I might bid that with a 4252 16-count.

Jilly, it's called 2-way checkback (although in this auction it is often called xyz). 2-way gametries is something else.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

- hrothgar
0

#18 User is offline   vuroth 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 1,459
  • Joined: 2007-June-03
  • Gender:Male

Posted 2010-November-10, 08:02

The thread title got me confused - voted for 1♠ before I noticed that 2♠ was actually an option. I prefer 2♠.
Still decidedly intermediate - don't take my guesses as authoritative.

"gwnn" said:

rule number 1 in efficient forum reading:
hanp does not always mean literally what he writes.
0

#19 User is offline   jillybean 

  • hooked
  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 10,136
  • Joined: 2003-November-15
  • Gender:Female
  • Location:Vancouver, Canada
  • Interests:Multi

Posted 2010-November-10, 09:34

View Posthan, on 2010-November-10, 03:39, said:

I think mtvesuvius said it well.

Disagree with gwnn's comment, 1D, 1S and then 2NT is not enough. I might bid that with a 4252 16-count.

Jilly, it's called 2-way checkback (although in this auction it is often called xyz). 2-way gametries is something else.


Thanks, it is XYZ, I've corrected that now. My other questions are about 2-way gametries which I will post in a seperate thread.
"And no matter what methods you play, it is essential, for anyone aspiring to learn to be a good player, to learn the importance of bidding shape properly." MikeH
0

#20 User is offline   Gerben42 

  • PipPipPipPipPipPipPipPip
  • Group: Advanced Members
  • Posts: 5,577
  • Joined: 2005-March-01
  • Gender:Male
  • Location:Erlangen, Germany
  • Interests:Astronomy, Mathematics
    Nuclear power

Posted 2010-November-10, 12:00

I'm a "bid what I have" kinda person, so 2♠. Partner won't hog to 3NT without a good hand for it.
Two wrongs don't make a right, but three lefts do!
My Bridge Systems Page

BC Kultcamp Rieneck
0
  • 2 Pages +
  • 1
  • 2
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

1 User(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users