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#1 User is offline   shyams 

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Posted 2011-August-04, 08:38



I'd like to hear what you'd do here. Partner and I were playing a standard 2/1 type system. FYI: This is the last board of the round, and opps appear to be overbidders.

1. Do you agree with the negative dbl?
2. What action do you take now?

Thanks
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Posted 2011-August-04, 08:50

View Postshyams, on 2011-August-04, 08:38, said:

1. Do you agree with the negative dbl?
2. What action do you take now?

Thanks

I agree with the negative double, and I'd bid 2♥ now.
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Posted 2011-August-04, 08:53

View Postgordontd, on 2011-August-04, 08:50, said:

I agree with the negative double, and I'd bid 2♥ now.


+1. This has to describe this hand.
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Posted 2011-August-04, 09:09

I agree with gordontd, but would like to elaborate a little. Your hand particularly would like to show hearts from the start, but you don't have the strength for it. A "standard" use (when you are responder) of double is that if you then bid at your next turn you are showing a hand with a long suit but not enough points to bid it the first time. This seems to sum your hand up perfectly.
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Posted 2011-August-05, 10:05

View Postgordontd, on 2011-August-04, 08:50, said:

I agree with the negative double, and I'd bid 2♥ now.


I agree also. Need now to bid 2♥. Partner will not expect more than what you have.
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Posted 2011-August-05, 10:48

View Postgordontd, on 2011-August-04, 08:50, said:

I agree with the negative double, and I'd bid 2♥ now.

This should be (nearly) unanimous. It is the textbook way to handle a single-suited hand with less strength than an immediate bid would show (i.e., the type of hand that would make a negative free bid).
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Posted 2011-August-08, 06:00

When not playing negative freebids, then Dbl followed by 2♥ shows this sort of hand. You can't be stronger because then you would've bid 2♥ immediately.
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