weak 2H opening by RHO

[kgr]

RHO opens 2H weak.

You have at MP's nobody vulnerable:

KJTxxx-v-xxx-KJT8

what do you bid and what is your plan?

[hrothgar]

RHO opens 2H weak.

You have at MP's nobody vulnerable:

KJTxxx-v-xxx-KJT8

what do you bid and what is your plan?

I pass

 

My plan depends enormously on what partner and LHO do.

 

I wouldn't be surprised to see the auction go

 

(2♥) - P - (3♥) - All pass

[Guest Jlall]

I'd overcall 2S.

[Apollo81]

2♠ overcall

[awm]

Hmm... it seems like if I passed initially and heard 2♥-P-3♥-P-P, then bidding 3♠ is relatively easy. Here I know that LHO doesn't have enough values to look for game, and that the opponents have a real heart fit (so we likely have a spade fit). The main concern of bidding is that partner will take me for a better hand than I have and we will get overboard, but my initial pass has taken care of this...

 

Hands like these make me wish opponents were playing multi. Then I could pass and be assured of a chance to get in later, with the balancing call showing a weaker hand.

 

With that said, over the actual 2♥ preempt I think I'd bid 2♠. Hopefully partner will realize I have the short hearts and give me some slack.

[pclayton]

2S.

 

If I knew LHO was going to raise hearts, I could reopen at the 3 or 4 level.

 

Im specifically worried 2H - p - p even though pard rates to have a stack.

 

Im also concerned about 2H - p - 3N where we might need a spade lead out.

[bid_em_up]

While instinctively, I would like to be able to bid 2♠ freely, I am a firm believer in you dont preempt a preempt, which is essentially what you are doing when you bid 2♠ on this holding. A direct 2♠ needs to be based on approximate opening values, in order that partner can better judge later in the auction.

[mike777]

2s, heck this is an opening hand yes?

[han]

2S. This is what the good players do on Vugraph.

[inquiry]

2♠... 26 zars, good intermediates, long suit, how can I pass?

[gwnn]

I bid 2♠. Then I'll pass anything but a cuebid by p. in which case I'll rebid my spades at the lowest appropriate level.

 

(btw at IMP's I think I'd pass, bidding is slightly pushing it)

[whereagles]

2♠. A bit lightish, but the only bid by pard opposite which I have less than the expected playing strength is 3NT :)

[whereagles]

huh? dbl post? pls del ^^

[whereagles]

trpl post. pwnzed ^^^^

[kgr]

[hv=d=e&v=n&n=saqxxxhqxxdaxxxcx&w=sxhkxxxdqjxcaxxxx&e=sxhajxxxxdkxxcq9x&s=skjtxxxhdxxxckjt8]399|300|Scoring: MP

(2H)-2S-(4H)-6S-All Pass[/hv]

I did bid 2S and partner raised to 6S when LHO did bid 4H. (I had a little hope when, after ruffing H lead and playing trumps; I played a small club, RHO the 9, the T from me and LHO the Ace.)

Probably I better bid from partner is 5H as a limit for 6S (assuming 5S would ask a H control)? But this was not discussed!?

I you pass then LHO raises to 4H and partner will pass. Would you bid 4S when it comes back to you?

[whereagles]

6♠ is lazy. Even if overcaller had the ♦A on top of his hand, slam would still be close to hopeless.

 

And I'm not even mentioning hands where 2♠ overcaller has a singleton heart...

[Guest Jlall]

yeah I don't like the 6S bid, keycard would be nice but I would play 4N there as minors, so I would just bid 5H.

[pbleighton]

"2s, heck this is an opening hand yes?"

 

ROFL.

 

Mike, you should write a book on Bipolar Bidding.

 

Peter

[Guest Jlall]

"2s, heck this is an opening hand yes?"

 

ROFL.

 

Mike, you should write a book on Bipolar Bidding.

 

Peter

LMAO.

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

 

it is close, if you followi Marshall Miles advice,

you should bid 2S. MP / IMP does not matter.

The playing strength is ok.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

[Codo]

if bidding is allowed by partnership agreement, 2 Spade had been fine.

It has not been allowed in my regular partnership so I had passed.

 

After the bidding went

2 ♥ pass 4 ♥ pass pass I had bid 4 Spade.

[pclayton]

The N hand isn't that great. The Q♥ is garbage and the Q♠ probably isn't worth anything either. Even the 5th trump doesnt help that much.

 

I wouldn't make a slam try, much less bid 6. Would you if you held: Axxx xxx Axxxx x? Because that about what the hand evaluates to.

[gwnn]

I agree with Phil 100%. Overcalling might have been a 1% overbid (I think it's actually 0%) but punting 6 is a hundred times worse.

[skjaeran]

Late to this post.

 

Obvious 2♠ overcall.

Obvious balance over 2♥ - p - 3/4♥ - p - p - p - I'd bid 4♠ over 3 and 4♥.

 

6♠ by partner is a huge overbid - I'd never even think of bidding slam. Inviting slam is a possibility though.

[kgr]

Thanks all for the answers.

Let me add 2 comments in defence of my partner:

- We don't play together for that long. I'm the more aggresive bidder. Partner did certainly expect more from my 2S bid.

- We didn't have an agreement on how to invite (and 4NT would have been for the minors). So it seemed like a guess between 4 and 6S for him

...We kind of agreed some weeks ago that if opps compete like here then 5S would have asked for a H control to go to 6S. Not important her, but seems a better bid then 6S. (hmm, this last comment is not part of the 2 comments in defence of my partner :P ).