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♠QJT
♥AKJx
♦Ax
♣KJxx
You open 1♣ playing 2/1. This time the auction continues:
1♣ - Pass - Pass - 1NT
The 1NT balance shows something like 11-15 with a club stopper. What will you do now?
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What's your call? Same hand, different auction
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Posted 2007-December-22, 12:54
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#2 Guest_Jlall_*
Posted 2007-December-22, 13:15
I pass fast. Probably matters what partners passing style is I guess, but we are going to be in a lot wondering what to play and the opps will play double dummy, and if they have a good run to 2D they may only be able to get there if I X. It just seems like we have no future in this hand and I think they will make it more often than they won't.
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Posted 2007-December-22, 14:06
Pass. What are we competing for? Don't we want to defend 1N?
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Posted 2007-December-23, 03:10
I double at MP, gambling partner will have a 5 card suit to scape to where we will play comfortably.
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Posted 2007-December-23, 10:48
Straightforward pass. Partner has nothing or almost nothing, what are we fighting for?
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Posted 2007-December-23, 12:16
I would double. This time the opponents are unlikely to have a long suit, and I sit over their high cards. I expect to get them down two more than once for each time that this backfires.
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Posted 2007-December-23, 12:19
Pass, but if I had a fourth spade instead of a fourth heart and the same honour structure, I would double.
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Posted 2007-December-23, 13:24
X here show bal 18-19 in my book. This is what i have and i have a safe lead. Partner will stand the double 95% of the times. Of course for these kind of problems we really need the vulnerability and if its MP or Imps. In Imps im not afraid of -180 when +500 is often available in mp if they are white double is very tempting because down 1 or 2 (+50 or +100) will probably be a bad result. Sometimes you can pray that they are in 1C making 1or 2 at the other tables (+70,+90) and try to set 1nt 2 tricks (+100) but defending a white 1Nt rarely pays off in MP
X or not i expect the declarer to play double dummy anyway. When it goes 1C---pass---pass----1Nt all pass and i have a balance 12 pts with AQxx of clubs and my partner has a balanced 6 pts LHO has a 18-19 balanced 99% of the times.
X or not i expect the declarer to play double dummy anyway. When it goes 1C---pass---pass----1Nt all pass and i have a balance 12 pts with AQxx of clubs and my partner has a balanced 6 pts LHO has a 18-19 balanced 99% of the times.
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Posted 2007-December-23, 13:44
benlessard, on Dec 23 2007, 02:24 PM, said:
X or not i expect the declarer to play double dummy anyway. When it goes 1C---pass---pass----1Nt all pass and i have a balance 12 pts with AQxx of clubs and my partner has a balanced 6 pts LHO has a 18-19 balanced 99% of the times.
So you really expect a declarer who is playing double dummy and is getting a good split in spades and may have a source of tricks in diamonds whereas you have no source of tricks and will be endplayed all the time to go down more than he makes? I would not be surprised at all to see 2 overtricks.
Xing is fine here with 18-19 if you have some tricks like KQJTx of clubs or whatever.
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