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#1 User is offline   rsteele 

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Posted 2012-October-07, 11:17

Playing with a national champion you hear this auction: Pass - Pass - 1H - Pass
3H?
You are playing fit Drury. How do you paly 3 Hearts?
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Posted 2012-October-07, 11:31

A matter for agreement.
I play it as either a 5332 (5-card support) or 5422 (side 5-card suit unsuitable for a fit bid) not strong enough for Drury i.e. semi-preemptive but not rubbish. But I have a way of showing a side singleton with 4-card support not strong enough for Drury, so that hand type doesn't need to be in the 3H bid.
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Posted 2012-October-07, 13:55

I want it to be a "mixed" raise, much like Frances suggested. We could wait a very long time to have a purely preemptive heart raise opposite silent opponents.
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Posted 2012-October-07, 13:58

I've been playing it as 7-9 with 5 trumps for 23 years, and it's come up twice.
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Posted 2012-October-07, 14:06

It definitely should have some shape, either a shortage, or five trumps, or a five card side suit. You don't want to do this with 4432 as you might after a first seat opening. And it should be less than limit raise strength. Since it doesn't take much to have a limit raise with a shapely hand and four card support, I would expect something in the 4-7 HCP range.
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Posted 2012-October-07, 14:23

View Postnigel_k, on 2012-October-07, 14:06, said:

I would expect something in the 4-7 HCP range.


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Posted 2012-October-07, 19:51

I would play 3♥ as a weak preemptive raise with 4-card support and less than 7 hcp.
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Posted 2012-October-07, 22:38

Mixed raise
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Posted 2012-October-08, 16:32

Limit but with reason not to let opps in too easily.
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Posted 2012-October-08, 17:03

Mixed but I'd like to have good ODR or a little shape.
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Posted 2012-October-08, 18:07

3H is some hand that we agreed does not start with Drury.
Tell me which are agreed thru Drury to show this one isn't there.
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Posted 2012-October-10, 13:41

View PostFrancesHinden, on 2012-October-07, 11:31, said:

A matter for agreement.
I play it as either a 5332 (5-card support) or 5422 (side 5-card suit unsuitable for a fit bid) not strong enough for Drury i.e. semi-preemptive but not rubbish. But I have a way of showing a side singleton with 4-card support not strong enough for Drury, so that hand type doesn't need to be in the 3H bid.


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