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- From: paul@sco.COM (Paul Jackson)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: bidding after a t/o double
- Message-ID: <1993Jan26.224300.7793@sco.COM>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 22:43:00 GMT
- References: <1993Jan24.191124.5033@netcom.com> <1993Jan24.222142.1584@linus.mitre.org> <1993Jan26.215000.6878@sco.COM>
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- Mea culpa, mea culpa mea maxima culpa. I posted a 14 card hand.
-
- This is the same as earlier post but with only 13 cards
-
- 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.
- >
- >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.
- >--
- >Bob Silverman
-
- Isn't this a little conservative given the opening bid on the right? Surely
- the club and spade finesses have become substantially better than 50%
- in this auction (especially since LHO couldn't find any bid over the double).
- If partner has as little as:
- xx QJxxxx xxx xx
- it seems to me that slam is a reasonable contract (depending upon the
- defence all that it might need is a club finesse) and I wouldn't expect
- partner to move after a 4H bid with this hand.
-