mr1303 Posted July 14, 2007 Report Share Posted July 14, 2007 6. Pairs, Unfavourable. Opponents again silent, you deal and open 1♦ holding: ♠ J3♥ AKQ♦ KJ7543♣ Q9 Partner responds 1♥. What do you try now? Some may have opened this 1NT. Having opened 1D, you now appear to have several choices, none of which seems to be completely ideal. So you have decide which is the smallest lie to partner. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echognome Posted July 14, 2007 Report Share Posted July 14, 2007 If I didn't open 1NT, it was because, for some reason, I'm judging this to be a 2NT rebid, so I'm going to make that bid I guess. The only other option to me is 2♦. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted July 14, 2007 Report Share Posted July 14, 2007 2NT. Didn't Meck say when in doubt, choose the slight overbid? I'm surprised how many of these problems are nonproblems in my favourite system ;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Foxx Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 Two diamonds. Should abstain, to be quite honest. The hand calls out to be opened 1NT. After my bean-counting 1♦ opening, I have no good rebid. Three hearts overstates the trump support, never mind that I have all the royalty; a heart contract could become a mess if my dummy is forced to ruff the third round of either black suit. As far as I am aware, there is no good way to find out whether partner's hearts are ♥xxxx or ♥J1098x. Two notrump overstates the playing strength, as does three diamonds. I'll try to scrape up whatever matchpoints I can still get by staying low. If partner can rebid two hearts, I do have enough to raise to three. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 I also would have opened 1N, precisely because I have no good rebid over 1major. It is a little heavy...16 with a 6 card suit, but the AKQ tight of hearts is not a good holding (before the auction starts). As it is, I am NOT trying a fancy 2♣, since that doesn't get me anywhere even if partner bids, and I don't rebid 3♦ with this suit and Jx spades.... so 2♦ it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skjaeran Posted July 15, 2007 Report Share Posted July 15, 2007 I really hate this position, since there's no way to correct the misbid last time. This really is an obvious 1NT opening IMHO. Now nothing is right, but 2♦ is't got to be. That's the best shot to land on our feet again. 2NT is WAY to much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 I think opening 1N on this is just wrong. The doubletons suck and the suit is broken. I've looked for a 2.5 diamond call in my box and can't find one. I know this is sick, but I'll make the matchpoint distortion of 2♥. Very tough problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Strongly agree 1nt opening. If the waiter bid my hand first, I am back and I guess 2d now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Totally obvious 1NT opening, the rebid problem over any bid partner makes was completely forseeable. Also Jx and Qx are excellent holdings to declare notrump. Now I like 2♥ I guess. 2♦ is certainly way better than 3♦ or 2NT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 I am just gonna be consistent with previous bid, if I judged my hand to be a 1+3♦ hand on the round before, I will stick to it (even if its sick).. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jlall Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 I think not opening 1N is completely horrible. You have no bid over anything when you open 1D, and 1N describes your hand very well. I would raise to 2H now as A) 3D seems ridiculous on this suit, especially with marginal valuesB ) 2N seems ridiculous with no stopper in either suit and a queen lightC) 2D is less encouraging to partner than 2H (ie, with 5 hearts and a 9 count I can still get to game after 2H but not after 2D). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mr1303 Posted July 16, 2007 Author Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 This hand has caused me a lot of grief, as despite listening to everyone's points of view, I'm still not convinced which is the right answer. I would also have opened this 1NT to save this problem. Anyway, I decided to go with my personal choice of 2H, since: a) A raise is more encouraging to partner than a simple rebid of the first suit:lol: 3D is too much with this ropey suit. Partner will expect a better trick source than thisc) Neither 2NT nor 3H seemed right (2NT an overbid, and 3H suggests a better hand for hearts, with some questionable black suit values). The scores: 2H = 1002D = 603H = 503D = 302NT = 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted July 16, 2007 Report Share Posted July 16, 2007 Could you please set out the votes for the calls, and (if you can identify real experts whose votes can be counted) the expert breakdown? Maybe some quotes, if people emailed you but did not post here? I know that doing the scoring can be tough... but I don't think that merely setting out your reasoning and then going with your choice as 100 is the way to score a poll like this. Now, it may be that your expert panel is not very expert... perhaps the level of interest from players such as Fred or Ritong or Frances (to name just 3 who have not so far posted) was so low that you really only have a tiny sample of experts... and maybe you don't want to hurt anyone's feelings by not considering them as an expert for the purposes of score evaluation. But, the poll loses its attraction (at least to me) if we don't hear from the scorer on these issues. I hope this doesn't offend you: it was good of you to take on the job, and I am trying to be constructive. BTW, I didn't score 100 on all of the problems I posted in the last poll.... when the expert consensus disagreed with my choice, the expert consensus got 100. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jtfanclub Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 Could you please set out the votes for the calls, and (if you can identify real experts whose votes can be counted) the expert breakdown? Maybe some quotes, if people emailed you but did not post here? I am hoping/assuming the real experts emailed in their choices, us lesser folks posted (with some experts doing both). If I should not be posting on these (I don't email), then please let me know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BebopKid Posted July 17, 2007 Report Share Posted July 17, 2007 I would never open that hand 1NT. I would rebid 2♦. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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