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- From: rh@smds.com (Richard Harter)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: bidding after a t/o double
- Message-ID: <1993Jan25.071235.14923@smds.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 07:12:35 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.191124.5033@netcom.com> <1993Jan24.222142.1584@linus.mitre.org>
- Reply-To: rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter)
- Organization: Software Maintenance & Development Systems, Inc.
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- In article <1993Jan24.222142.1584@linus.mitre.org> bs@gauss.mitre.org (Robert D. Silverman) writes:
- >In article <1993Jan24.191124.5033@netcom.com> rudy@netcom.com (Rudy) writes:
- >>You hold: AQ AKTx x AQJT7x
- >>Matchpoints
- >>RHO You LHO Pard
- >>1S X P 2H
- >>P ?
- >>
- >>Your plan? I don't want to hear if you didn't double the first time,
- >>because then you are playing in 2C and it's not even a play problem.
-
- >Now this hand and club suit IS good enough to double, then bid clubs
- >over a diamond response from partner. I absolutely agree with a double
- >here. Contrast it with the previous hand.
-
- >In any event, I now bid 4H. What's the problem? You certainly can't
- >be thinking of more with 4 losers. If partner has 2 or 3 cover cards
- >he will move over 4H.
-
- Evidently this is a matter of assessment. Now me, I would expect the
- slam to be an odds on favorite if partner has Qxxxx in hearts and
- nothing else. With 20 pts in this hand, 2 in partners, 12+ in openers,
- and 6- in in LHO, who is more likely to have the KC? I would view
- the real question as being -- does partner have adequate hearts? I
- would bid 2S with the view to giving partner a chance to rebid hearts.
- [Assuming that 2S is a cue bid.] On the sequence 2H-2S-3H you have a
- fair presumption that partner has 5H, and the only question is whether
- to bid 5H, begging partner to go to 6, or go 6H directly on the view
- that the hand is a 4H/6H hand. On a 2H-2S-2NT sequence I would go
- 4H -- now there are too many holes and partner needs to take the next
- move. Do you disagree that Qxxxx or better in partner's hand is an
- odds on slam? If you do agree, do you expect partner to bid over
- 2H-4H? If not, do you feel that this is a slam "well worth missing"?
-
- By the by, it makes all the difference in the world (IMHO) what
- partner's hearts are. If partner has Jxxxx and nothing outside
- you only 4H on a 3-1 heart split (no entries off the board). The
- other issue is partners clubs -- x is bad, xx or xxx is good. On
- the sequence, 2H-2S-3H-4C-4H-5H you're telling partner that you're
- close to slam in support of hearts and that you're interested in
- clubs. On that sequence how will partner read xx,QJxxx,xxx,xxx?
- --
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