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- From: altus@leland.Stanford.EDU (Steve Altus)
- Subject: Re: This actually happened to me...
- Message-ID: <1992Dec23.204033.10639@leland.Stanford.EDU>
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- Organization: DSG, Stanford University, CA 94305, USA
- References: <1992Dec20.154523.14051@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 20:40:33 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec20.154523.14051@midway.uchicago.edu> pynq@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
- >None vul - you hold: Kxxxx,x,xx,xxxxx
- >Partner opens 1H, next hand doubles. Your call?
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- >Sharif/Hirsch recommend a pass.
- >
- >However, some time ago, this actually happened to me, and I passed, and
- >partner went for 300.
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- some time ago this actually happened to me, and i bid 1S, and i went for
- 800.
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- > Partner said I should have seen it coming, and I
- >think he's right. Isn't the most likely heart distribution 5-1-1-6 ?
- >(As it, in fact, was) Isn't it clear that a penalty pass is coming?
- >
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- MY partner said i should have seen it coming, and i KNOW he's right.
- bidding on a known misfit with no suit texture isn't asking for trouble,
- it's BEGGING for it.
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- >Partner had 3 spades and 5 (bad) hearts. How is he to know when to
- >rescue himself?
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- MY partner had 1 spade and 5 pretty fair hearts. 1H goes for 300, the
- opps are cold for 3NT, but we were -800...
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- just remember: it's a LOT easier to double 1S for penalties and start
- doubling everything in sight than to know that it's right to sit out
- 1H doubled...
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- --steve altus
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