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- From: adam@irvine.com (Adam Beneschan)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: bidding problem
- Message-ID: <9211161806.AA16520@calvin.irvine.com>
- Date: 16 Nov 92 18:11:35 GMT
- Article-I.D.: calvin.9211161806.AA16520
- Lines: 32
- In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 16 Nov 92 08:37:57 PST."
- <9211160837.aa19948@Paris.ics.uci.edu>
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-
- > Playing 2/1 GF and no opposition how do you
- > recommend bidding the following hands.
- >
- > Opener: KQxx,A,AQxxx,109x
- >
- >
- > Responder: Ax,Qxx,10xx,AKQJ8
- >
- > dennis
-
- This is tough. How about:
-
- 1D 2C
- 2S 3C
- 4C 4S
- 6C
-
- The first three bids are clear. 3C is better than 3D, I think. 3C
- should really show 6, but with a suit this good you can often get away
- with a little lie. I think 3C describes the hand better than 3D. (By
- the way, the way I play, 1D/2C is absolutely game forcing, and partner
- isn't allowed to pass 3C.) Opener's best bid is 4C here---I don't
- like 3NT with a stiff ace of hearts. 4S is a cue-bid. Now opener can
- pretty much count 12 tricks---three spades, one heart, one diamond,
- hopefully at least 5 club tricks (partner could have something like
- AQJxxx, which is either 5 or 6 club tricks); plus there should be one
- or two heart ruffs in dummy, and if everything else fails, perhaps
- partner has the king of diamonds or the diamond finesse is on. So 12
- tricks should be there.
-
- -- Adam
-