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- From: davidm@questor.Rational.COM (David Moore)
- Subject: Re: bidding after a t/o double
- Message-ID: <davidm.728081634@questor>
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- References: <1993Jan24.191124.5033@netcom.com> <1993Jan24.222142.1584@linus.mitre.org> <1993Jan25.071235.14923@smds.com> <lm8apcINN16p@cypress.cs.utexas.edu> <1993Jan26.061041.141@smds.com>
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:53:54 GMT
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- rh@smds.com (Richard Harter) writes:
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- >In article <lm8apcINN16p@cypress.cs.utexas.edu> varvel@cs.utexas.edu (Donald A. Varvel) writes:
- >>In article <1993Jan25.071235.14923@smds.com> rh@ishmael.UUCP (Richard Harter) writes:
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- >>>[Assuming that 2S is a cue bid.] On the sequence 2H-2S-3H you have a
- >>>fair presumption that partner has 5H,
-
- >Good point. If those are your methods then there is no inference. It
- >may be antique but I much prefer NT as the bailout. E.g. 1S x p 1NT
- >and 1S x p 2H, p 2S p 2NT; I would rather give up NT than lie about my
- >distribution in a competitive auction. Be that as it may, it is
- >certainly true that one can't make inferences without prior discussion.
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- I think you are not distinguishing the hand where partne makes a cue
- bid from the hand where partner bids a new suit.
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- When partner makes a cue bid, the presumption is that it is on support
- of your suit - or, in other words, that you have found a fit. Only
- if partner has a self-sufficient suit can he cue bid without a fit.
-
- So, in this case hearts is the "agreed" suit and 3H is weaker than
- 2NT. 2NT should be showing general values.
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- If 2S was a new suit, not a cue bid, then indeed 3H should be showing
- 5, and 2NT would be the ick bid.
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