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- From: zilch@planb.Eng.Sun.COM (John Hoffman)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: Problems from Portland
- Date: 17 Nov 1992 20:23:37 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- >> 1. None vul. East dealer. You are West: AJ9542, T, Q7, AT32
- >>
- >> West North East South
- >> pass pass
- >> 1S-1 1N-2 pass 2D 1. 11-15 HCP, at least 4 spades
- >> pass 2H (all pass) 2. 15-17
- >>
- >> After West passed, South announced that there had been
- >> a failure to alert, and that 2D was a transfer to 2H.
- >> The director then permitted West to take back his final
- >> pass if he wished. What do you do?
- >
- > Pass anyway. This is a team game. Partner could have doubled to show
- > decent values, or could have bid a new suit (non-forcing) over 1N.
-
- Oops. On rereading the original, I see it was Flight B Open Pairs,
- not an IMPS team game. I still pass, with awareness
- that it could give us a bad result if partner has the right
- 6 or 7 HCP and a doubleton spade. More likely, partner
- has 5 mediocre hearts and a singleton spade.
-
- I would have opened 2S and avoided much of this mess.
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