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- From: varvel@cs.utexas.edu (Donald A. Varvel)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: bidding after a t/o double
- Date: 25 Jan 1993 12:02:20 -0600
- Organization: CS Dept, University of Texas at Austin
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- References: <1993Jan24.191124.5033@netcom.com> <1993Jan24.222142.1584@linus.mitre.org> <1993Jan25.071235.14923@smds.com>
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- In article <1993Jan25.071235.14923@smds.com> rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
- >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 ?
-
- >>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,
-
- You have a fair presumption of nothing of the sort. Try xxxxx xxx xxx xx.
- Responder's proper response is 2H. Over the cuebid, many people (including
- Bob, if I remember correctly) play the rebid of the first suit (hearts) as
- showing inability to do anything else, and play 3D as showing something
- like 4-4 or 4-5 in hearts and diamonds. In any case, without discussion
- I wouldn't take 3H as confirming even four hearts, not to mention five.
-
- There's a principle here. When one partner forces in a situation where
- the other may not have prepared a rebid, either *all* of responder's bids
- carry reduced meaning or some subset (usually one) must. Worldwide, the
- almost universal choice for a "bailout" bid is the return to the first
- suit bid by the partnership. Thus, for instance, with xxxx x AKQx KQxx
- you deal and the bidding goes 1D (1S) 2H (P); 3C (P) 3S. 3NT shows a
- stopper in spades, a heart raise shows hearts, 4C shows 5-5 or 6-5 and
- 4D shows at least 5 diamonds. Bid 4D. While you really should have five,
- there is no other bid. Partner shouldn't count on *this bid* for much.
-
- -- Don Varvel (varvel@cs.utexas.edu)
-