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[jocdelevat]

[hv=d=e&v=n&s=sa5h9743da972ca94]133|100|Scoring: MP

♠ A2 ♥ Q753 ♦ AK8 ♣ AK98

 

what's your bid? south open 1h you are west

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Dealer: South Vul: None Scoring: MP[/hv]

firts seat do you open with this hand?
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[hv=d=e&v=n&s=sa5h9743da972ca94]133|100|Scoring: MP ♠ A2 ♥ Q753 ♦ AK8 ♣ AK98

 

what's your bid? south open 1h you are west

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Dealer: South Vul: None Scoring: MP[/hv]

 

you open in secon seat . so auction is pass 1h 1s 2d pass. do you continue with 3c or you pass?

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[hv=d=e&v=a&n=sak4haj7dkjck8653&s=sqjt32h4da8643ca2]133|200|Scoring: MP[/hv]

 

West North East South

 

 -     -     3♥    3♠

 Pass  4NT   Pass  5♠

 Pass  6♠    Pass  Pass

 Pass  

 

how do you play this? lead 10 of hearts

 

 

best regards

jocdelevat

[hrothgar]

1. Double

 

2. 1♦

 

3. 2♦ is forcing, so you must bid

 

All of these seem obvious

[mike777]

1. Double

 

2. 1♦

 

3. 2♦ is forcing, so you must bid

 

All of these seem obvious

I agree but this is beginner section, so nothing, nothing is obvious.

 

In fact I would expect all of these bids to be difficult for any new player. The bridge logic behind all of these bids is important and not that easy.

[HeartA]

1) Double (bid NT later), wtp?

2) Of course. Never pass a hand with three aces.

3) 2H.

4) HA and ruff a heart. Cash all minor Aces and Kings and cross-ruff (ruff D with SAK, and ruff H with small spades). You count 7S+1H+2D+2C.

[awm]

1. Double is the textbook auction, but this does sometimes cause trouble when partner bids spades. I'd go with double though.

 

2. I'd open 1♦.

 

3. Unless you've explicitly agreed otherwise, 2♦ should be forcing. I'd bid 2♥, since a 3♣ call would force partner to take preference at the three-level and should show extras (it's a high reverse).

 

4. I would win the lead and cash two top diamonds ending in hand. The plan is to ruff two diamonds high to set up the suit. If diamonds are 4-2 or better and trumps no worse than 4-1, the contract is cold. If everything behaves (diamonds no worse than 4-2, trumps 3-2) then I will take all the tricks. In any case even if suits don't break there are numerous alternative chances to make twelve tricks.

[whereagles]

1. Book bid is dbl, followed by some nr. of NT.

 

2. 1♦, wtp? Textbook again :)

 

3. 2♥. Must say first you have a min, and then, if pard carries on, you'll bid your clubs, completing the hand description. This is not textbook; textbooks "cleverly" avoid these problems :)

 

4. Ruff 2 diamonds high seems good to me, but ruff a heart in hand first before playing a diamond up. If the ♦Q or 10 falls 1st round, hinting at a 5-1 break, the heart ruff at trick 2 may pay dividends. Switch to a dummy-reversal line of ruffing the 3rd heart low, a club high, back to dummy in trumps and another club high. Then pull trumps and play the last club. NOTE: just gave this 1 min of thought so it might be wrong... lol.

[P_Marlowe]

#1 dbl, followed by NT

#2 yes, 1D

#3 2H, 3C should more than

a min. opener

#4 abstain, I seldom comment on play problems

[inquiry]

1. Too good for 1NT. Double

 

2. 1♦ - 6 controls, 3 quick tricks, 28 Zar points. Can't pass. Even Hi-Suit-Cute is

12+8+6=26, four more than needed to open.

 

3. 2H. 2♦ was forcing, ESPECIALLY in an individual. But I want to keep the bidding low, and sound as weak as possible.

 

4. Heart Ace, cross ruff.

[jillybean]

#1 Does a double followed by 1nt here show a balanced hand 18-19 rather than a direct 1nt showing 15-17?

 

ty jb

[whereagles]

yes. that's how you bid 18-20 hands (with more rebid NT in jump)

[jocdelevat]

First of all I thank you for your answers. Second I love you and the forum for bil beacuase I learned and still learn a lot from reading this forum. After I red answers to my questions always seems clear but at tbl looks to me more complicated

Now my bil thoughts and regrets:

First board: things that confused me here:1. I wasn't short in opponnents suit to use as take out double and no range for 1nt. I add my points to opener points and got like 32-33 and thought my pard and the opps should be empty hands so I was totaly in the dark of what to bid. Now after red the ansewers I remember the option for double with 17+ points than bid your suit so in my case the hand fit the nt bid after double.

Second board: just a regret here: I open 1d then a pass my pard bid 1h then an x and bid 2h. My pard had an openning hand so he jump to 4h and of course trumps didn't stay well and other things and my pard fail the contract. The thing here is I regreted I open this hand when I saw my pard jumping in 4h.

Third board:Another 12 points not so nice to open but I did. Here I saw a misfit and I was afraid to bid 3c because of high level and afraid to bid 2h for the reason of not make my pard thinking I have 6 hearts. Next thing in competitive auction Im not always sure to take a 2 level bid new suit of my pard as forcing but now I know and I will.

Fourth board: I was afraid to play my minor suits winners and then to do cross ruff because of 3h bid however seems clear and easy the line now. I usually count in all suits but 3h made me thinking of a weird distribution.

 

best regards

jocdelevat

[cherdano]

You shouldn't have any regrets about the second board. It is normal to play in game and go down, especially with trumps breaking badly. Your hand is a minimum for 2H, but not even a very bad one (aces are always great, worth a bit more than 4 pts for suit play).

 

Arend

[pclayton]

1. Double - planning 1N after 1♠. This isn't that great of a hand and I wouldn't be surprised to go down in whatever we bid.

 

2. 1♦. 3 aces is a mandatory opener.

 

3. 2♥ and await developments. 3♣ is asking for trouble. My opponents pass these hands all the time and they always seem to get a good result. Most of the time this is because I'm afraid to balance since one of the opps has passed a forcing bid. Invariably, opener has a bare 12 and responder has a bare minimum and they make exactly 8 tricks. I'm usually on tilt for the next few hands after this. B)

 

4. I thought about reversing the dummy here, but I think I run into trouble on some 4-1 trump breaks. I'll play ♦K, ♦A, ruff ♦ high and see what happens. I can't see how this can be worse than a straight crossruff.

[EricK]

Second board: just a regret here: I open 1d then a pass my pard bid 1h then an x and bid 2h. My pard had an openning hand so he jump to 4h and of course trumps didn't stay well and other things and my pard fail the contract. The thing here is I regreted I open this hand when I saw my pard jumping in 4h.

It is important to realise that if you never go down in game then you are not bidding nearly enough games.