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Lately the SOBs have been overcalling our 2N openers, and we're soft/undecided re: handling this. Any stuff you'e willing to share, or a reference to a prior thread?
Regards and Happy Trails,
Scott Needham
Boulder, Colorado, USA
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They O/C Our 2N opener-- opine or refer, plz
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Posted 2012-January-30, 11:40
Why not do the same as what you do after they make a three-level overcall of your 1NT opening?
... 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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Posted 2012-January-30, 12:00
gnasher, on 2012-January-30, 11:40, said:
Why not do the same as what you do after they make a three-level overcall of your 1NT opening?
This is exactly what we do, so T/O doubles of natural 3s.
What's not so clear is how to play if they use their artificial 1N defence a level up.
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Posted 2012-January-30, 12:10
Flem72, on 2012-January-30, 11:18, said:
Lately the SOBs have been overcalling our 2N openers, and we're soft/undecided re: handling this. Any stuff you'e willing to share, or a reference to a prior thread?
Regards and Happy Trails,
Scott Needham
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Regards and Happy Trails,
Scott Needham
Boulder, Colorado, USA
Treat new suit bids as forcing. The expectation should be that you are going positive defending 3x.
Its also reasonably sensible to treat this auction as forcing, in the sense that you have to make a t/o double if you have the shape, even with very few points. I mean, how often to they overcall a 20-22 opener and make 9 tricks?
The physics is theoretical, but the fun is real. - Sheldon Cooper
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