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responding to overcall

Poll: Your call? (28 member(s) have cast votes)

What's your call

  1. Pass (20 votes [71.43%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 71.43%

  2. 2D (6 votes [21.43%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 21.43%

  3. 2H (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  4. 2S (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  5. 2NT (1 votes [3.57%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 3.57%

  6. 3C (0 votes [0.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 0.00%

  7. Abstain, would have opened. (1 votes [3.57%] - View)

    Percentage of vote: 3.57%

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Posted 2011-January-09, 11:00



Unknown partner, None vul, IMPs. Feel free to say if you would do something different vul.
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Posted 2011-January-09, 12:01

Sorry misread!
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Posted 2011-January-09, 13:04

2♦ for lack of alternatives
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Posted 2011-January-09, 13:47

Good question and I am going to pass. I can see more good things happening if I pass than if I bid. Fluffy's 2♦ is ok but I won't know what to do on the next round either. Vul I would bid 2♦ I guess.
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Posted 2011-January-09, 14:22

pass for lack of alternatives
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Posted 2011-January-09, 14:44

abstain I would have opened 1h.
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Posted 2011-January-09, 16:14

Pass. With this misfit the primary concern is to escape the hand with a plus score.
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Posted 2011-January-09, 16:19

pass is your friend. game is not likely - we don't see a fit and 3NT is impossible with this heart holding.
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Posted 2011-January-09, 20:21

Pass... Yuck, not much chance of a game, and 2♣ looks to maybe be our top spot.
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Posted 2011-January-09, 20:19

I cant honestly say I would have opened, but my life would be easier now if I had.

Pass with a nice 7HCP, and be happy if anybody else bids again.
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Posted 2011-January-09, 20:19

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Posted 2011-January-09, 20:22

[yeah, TRIPLE-posted, oops.]
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Posted 2011-January-09, 20:31

OK, part 2 guys:

If you bid 2♦, the auction continues:

P-1H-2C-P
2D-P-2H-P
??


If you pass, the auction goes:

P-1H-2C-P
P-2D-P-2S
??
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Posted 2011-January-10, 03:39

I will continue to think inside the box and pass again. I don't know they will make very often here but this auction sounds fishy and who knows who has what. I'm not doubling white at imps a 7-8 card fit when trumps split, I've already decided previously that we don't have game.

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Posted 2011-January-10, 03:45

Hi,

2NT.

I am not going to pass, although this may very well be best by fair margin,
I would go with 2NT, ..., I am not convinced.

Maybe 3C, or Pass.

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Posted 2011-January-10, 03:50

And what do you do when partner raises to 3NT? What hand type are you playing partner for?
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Posted 2011-January-10, 04:24

2♦, on grounds that our long hearts make it likely pard is 4126/2146/3136.

Yes, I'm feeling lucky this morning lol.
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Posted 2011-January-10, 04:43

Pass over 2♣ at this vul (would consider bidding if vulnerable) nless partner is an al roth's disciple. Over 2♠ choice is between a chicken pass or a dangerous DBL (values implying club misfit). I think DBL is the winning long term bid unless we agreed with partner that 2♣ can be quite shaded.
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Posted 2011-January-10, 05:22

Really easy pass of 2C at any vul.

What game are you guys trying to get to? 3N with seven fifth of hearts after they open 1H is a long way off, even if we have a heart stopper somehow (which is unlikely because we have at least 10 combined with LHO), we don't have a source of tricks. This could easily be a hand where we have 26 HCP and no game...and that's if partner has a near max 2C overcall.

Trying to get to an 11 trick game also seems ridiculous.
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Posted 2011-January-10, 05:22

I also pass 2S. No chance I'm going to double them at imps with Kxx, and obviously I don't want to compete.
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