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- From: zilch@planb.Eng.Sun.COM (John Hoffman)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: How should this be bid?
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 19:22:59 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc.
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- References: <GRABINER.93Jan20145311@kovalevskaia.harvard.edu>
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- > South dealer, both vulnerable, Swiss teams. You are North, partner
- > opens 1S, and LHO passes You hold
- >
- > KQJxxxx
- > K9xx
- > xx
- > -
- >
- > What do you do?
- >
- > Here's the South hand; how does your auction go?
- >
- > ATxxx
- > Ax
- > xx
- > AKxx
- >
- > Our auction was unscientific but quite successful:
- >
- > S W N E
- > 1S P 6S P
- > 7S P P X
- > P P P
- >
- > West led a heart, and we claimed 13 tricks for +2470. (East held the AK
- > of diamonds.)
-
- Some days you have all the luck. Other more reasonable bidding sequences
- might include:
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- 1S - 4C; 4S - pass 4C = splinter 4S = no cue bid and no interest
- or
- 1S - 2N; 3S - 4C; 4S - pass 2N = Jacoby 3S = non-minimum balanced
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