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- From: taylor@foraker.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Eric Taylor)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: problem over preempt
- Message-ID: <7228@tivoli.UUCP>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 15:56:00 GMT
- References: <fbl2wbl@rpi.edu> <1992Dec19.234826.10469@ramon.bgu.ac.il>
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- In article <1992Dec19.234826.10469@ramon.bgu.ac.il>, avir@chen.bgu.ac.il (Avi Roy Shapira) writes:
- |> sperbr@vccnw12.its.rpi.edu (Ron E Sperber) writes:
- |> : Playing on okbridge with someone who is a reasonable player,but in a
- |> : somewhat unfamiliar partnership you pick up the following hand red vs white
- |> : at IMPs:
- |> :
- |> : AJ
- |> : KQJ8
- |> : A86
- |> : AJ98
- |> :
- |> : RHO opens 4D. Your call.
- |> :
- |>
- |> There are 2 options, pass or double. A pass is the road for a sure plus.
- |> However, beating 4D undoubled is not going to get you many imps. Partner
- |> may not have enough to come in, so I'd tend to double. With luck, partner
- |> will find the right bid. I'll pass 4S, but if doubled will take the double
- |> out to 4NT.
-
- This just begs disaster does it not?
- You have only one stopper in diamonds with no source
- of tricks. Partner probably has a bust and 4S may only go
- down 1 or 2. Bidding 4NT at IMPS may go down 4 or worse.
-
- I blew a match once and went -1400 the last time I did
- something like that. (ala Danil And Deba)
-
- I could have been only -300 which would not have been
- enough to lose the match.
-