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now, later or never?

Poll: your bid (22 member(s) have cast votes)

your bid

  1. pass and accept partner's double (13 votes [59.09%])

    Percentage of vote: 59.09%

  2. pass and bid 3[DI] after partner's double (3 votes [13.64%])

    Percentage of vote: 13.64%

  3. 3[DI] (5 votes [22.73%])

    Percentage of vote: 22.73%

  4. something else (1 votes [4.55%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.55%

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#1 User is offline   Fluffy 

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Posted 2009-March-01, 19:42

MPs, nobody vul

♠A6532
♥-
♦A754
♣QJ107

S - W - N - E
1♠-X-XX-ps
ps-2♣-ps-ps
X-ps-ps-2♥
???
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Posted 2009-March-01, 20:49

What does partners XX show ?
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Posted 2009-March-01, 20:52

How about doubling so that declarer doesn't know the trump split right away?
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Posted 2009-March-02, 04:23

jillybean2, on Mar 2 2009, 02:49 AM, said:

What does partners XX show ?

actually it showed 10+, no support, and 4+ cards in 2 suits, (hearts and diamonds after the pass of 2♣). But interested on what would it mean on your standard context.
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Posted 2009-March-02, 04:33

3D.

I am not going to play 2HX

Since Pass is forcing, passing now and subseq. bidding 3D
showes add. values, which I dont have.

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Posted 2009-March-02, 05:05

Pass and pass pard's dbl. Why can't he have 5 hearts or 4 good ones?
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Posted 2009-March-02, 13:54

Pass and pass partners double. If I wasn't passing 2♥x now I'd have bid 2♣ over the redouble. I guess I'd have bid 2♣ the previous round at the table.
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Posted 2009-March-02, 18:20

I'd have bid 2♣ on the second round. It's hardly a surprise that passing led to a bidding problem.
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Posted 2009-March-02, 22:16

Pass and pass pd's dbl. This procedure looks so much likely that pd have a stack of hearts.
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Posted 2009-March-04, 17:18

Partner had 1552 with Q1097x in hearts, 2♥ was normally 500, wich is better than your game. 6♦ was making becuase ♦ split 2-2 but we didn't find it anyway.
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Posted 2009-March-05, 09:26

gnasher, on Mar 2 2009, 07:20 PM, said:

I'd have bid 2♣ on the second round. It's hardly a surprise that passing led to a bidding problem.

agreed.

We should be looking ahead when partner redoubles... passing was lazy, and suggested interest in defending. We are morally certain that we don't want to defend 2♥. So why create a problem... bid 2♣ to announce a minimum unbalanced hand. Then we could trust partner's decisions
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Posted 2009-March-05, 10:17

I am not interested in defending with this hand and that´s why I should have bid before.
In fact I don't like low-level doubles, most of the time you're better of declaring.

Now I won´t run when partner doubles 2♥.
Although my hand is not strong, it has two aces.
All is not lost, maybe defending gives an ok result.
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