home *** CD-ROM | disk | FTP | other *** search
- Path: sparky!uunet!UB.com!pacbell.com!sgiblab!spool.mu.edu!torn!utgpu!attcan!ncrcan!scocan!paul
- From: paul@sco.COM (Paul Jackson)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: bidding after a t/o double
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.200658.5805@sco.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 20:06:58 GMT
- Sender: news@sco.COM (News administration)
- Organization: SCO Canada, Inc.
- Lines: 34
-
- 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.
-
- Given that as little as QJxx in hearts is sufficient to give me a reasonable
- play for 6H I'm driving to at least game. I'm not at all sure that at the
- table I'd have the discipline to stop short of slam (I KNOW that he could be
- 4-3-3-3, I don't think that I can cater to that hand).
-
- So, I'll bid 2S now and if partner rebids 3H I'll raise to 5H. This should
- be enough to cause partner to go on to slam with as little as Jxxxxx of
- hearts.
-
- >
- >So, if you bid 3C you play it there, but if you bid 2S, partner bids 3H
-
- 3C is a gross underbid on this hand
- >
- >Now what?
- >
- >If you bid 4C, partner wil bid 4H. Do you take another call? What?
- >
-
- Unless agreed to be forcing (I do NOT play it as absolutely forcing in this
- sequence, partner would be allowed to pass with no clubs and no points) 4C
- is still an underbid. Over 4H I'd bid 5H.
-
- But, now that we have the heart fit, why am I bothering to mention my clubs?
-