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- From: bpwing@phoenix.princeton.edu (Ben Wing)
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- Date: 22 Jan 93 01:29:25 GMT
- Subject: Re: How should this be bid?
- References: <GRABINER.93Jan20145311@kovalevskaia.harvard.edu> <lltu4aINN4l3@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM>
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- In article <lltu4aINN4l3@exodus.Eng.Sun.COM> zilch@planb.Eng.Sun.COM writes:
- |
- |oops, let's try that splinter sequence again...
- |
- |1S - 4C; 4H - 4S; pass splinter, Q bid, give up now
- |or
- |1S - 4C; 4H - 5C; 5S - pass splinter, Q bid, one more try, give up
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- Actually I think 1s - 4c - 4s is the most reasonable. Why would opener
- cue-bid when his AK of clubs looks to be wasted? "A working EIGHT-COUNT," as
- Bob Silverman would say ... If anything, the sequence ought to go,
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- 1s - 4c - 4s - 5c - 5s - p.
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- Responder, with 7-4-2-0, has a very good hand and is willing to go on
- despite opener's sign-off. Hearing 5c only makes opener more discouraged,
- though, so he signs off again.
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- As to responder bidding Jacoby 2N ... usually Jacoby promises a _balanced_
- hand, otherwise you splinter (or perhaps 2/1 with a good outside suit).
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- ben
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- "Can't we all just get along?"
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