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Good spades Two bidding decisions

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Posted 2011-March-21, 10:29

Swiss teams. Playing pretty standard 2/1 with pickup partner.



What should South do now?



Suppose you passed to learn if W held diamonds, planning to discount your KD if so, but to bid further if not.

1. Appreciate comments on the approach
2. What to bid now?
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Posted 2011-March-21, 13:22

It would be interesting to know what West's minor is, but I'm not going to bid 3NT if it goes 3-P-P. Since I will bid 3 anyway I may as well do it immediately. Probably the information will be more useful to RHO than to me.

The second part may depend on what is going on. Is East's 3 a constructive move with an immediate 3 being a signoff, or is this how East gets to play 3? Anyway I would probably bid 3 in either case but 3NT has some appeal if East is just weak with long diamonds.
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Posted 2011-March-23, 13:00

We should try to involve partner instead of just guessing ourselves. X of 2NT and then 3 if partner says nothing. If partner doubles 3 we could bid 3NT over RHO's 3.
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Posted 2011-March-23, 16:20

X of 2N, passing seems silly. This gets partner involved and will make our problems much easier. Now I guess I'd bid 3, random guess though
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Posted 2011-March-25, 03:22

I'd definitely Dbl 2NT, I have extra's. Who knows, partner may have a weak hand with support, or some penalty opportunities.

With the auction given, we passed to hear if LHO has or . Now that we hear he has , we don't discount our K. I guess we have to bid 3, that's why we passed first...
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Posted 2011-March-25, 13:24

bid 3 right away and forget part #2 :)
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Posted 2011-March-26, 13:21

another irrestible....Hamman eggs in one basket! :)
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Posted 2011-March-26, 14:40

View Postpooltuna, on 2011-March-26, 13:21, said:

another irrestible....Hamman eggs in one basket! :)

Is that one of GIB's "Likely stop in " bids?
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