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- Subject: Re: How should this be bid?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.152438.4732@ramon.bgu.ac.il>
- From: avir@chen.bgu.ac.il (Avi Roy Shapira)
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 15:24:38 GMT
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- Organization: Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, Israel
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- grabiner@math.harvard.edu (David Grabiner) writes:
- :
- : 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.)
- :
- :
- There are a few possible bids with the North hand. Either 4S or 6S.
- I prefer 6 spades, unless you are ahead in the match. Partner's raise
- to 7 is wholly justified and 7S is certainly better than 6S.
-
- It has about 35% chance of success. (slightly more then 2/3rds of the time
- E has the A of diamonds, not 3/4 since on this auction one should not lead
- a trump, but some will), and the imp expectaion is slightly against it,
- but the imp expectation is definitely worse for 6S.
-
- In BTC the bidding may go.
- 1S 2C ( a fragment, or advanced Q bid, or a suit, forcing to 2N or 3C)
- 2S 4C (spade support, 1st round club control)
- 4H 4S (4H denies 1st or 2nd round control of diamonds)
- Pass
-
- Avi
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- Aviel Roy-Shapira, M.D. Ben-Gurion University Medical School
- Dept. of Surgery A. POB 151, Beer Sheva, Israel
- avir@chen.bgu.ac.il AVIR@BGUVM.BITNET
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