Apollo81 Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 MPs, none vul ♠J♥J1097♦J963♣Q1084 pass-(pass)-1♠*-(3♦)pass-(pass)-Dbl-(pass)??? * 11-15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 pull. obvious to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gerben42 Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 3♥, not a close decision in my opinion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrexford Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 Thank God this is MP. We could be in for a number otherwise. Some of the field will not have a 3♦ preempt. Some will not reopen with a double when holding less than 16 HCP. So, if we cannot make 3♥, we are in trouble. However, we are not vulnerable. We might go set but still win out if 3♦ makes. If we were vulnerable, I'd pass and pray. I think that would be a strong option. White, however, I think I can do all right in 3♥. I'll try. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codo Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 As all agree to pull, I must be wrong, but I pass at mps. The lott is with me, so is my shortness in Pds first suit.I will never do this at imps, but here... And there is one more upside: Partner has a problem to judge my overall strength, so he may sometimes bid 4 Heart when it is wrong. He cannot do anything stupid anymore after I passed. :P (Maybe I already did this for him, but this won´t be the first time... nor the last) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jlall Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 pass and go plus yo. Really hate pulling, by far our best chance at a plus is 3D X and I don't even like our chances much to make 3H (we may not even have a fit), so going for 140 instead of 100 (which might well be 300 anyways) seems like a very small target. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtK78 Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 Partner asked you to bid. You have 4 hearts. Is there a problem here??? Of course you bid. Now, if I had AJxx of diamonds and four small hearts, I could pass. But J9xx? I don't think so. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
karlson Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 I think the fact that partner is limited makes a difference -- even opposite a standard 1s I'd be thinking of -50 or -100 vs -470, not +100 vs +140, but I think the chance that this is their hand is even higher here. Then again, I don't have much experience with strong club systems. So I pull, but it would sure be easier without the D9. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 Partner asked you to bid. I hate when people say that. He didn't ask us to do anything in particular. He did his best to describe his hand and asked us to do whatever is right. Probably I would have bid 3♥. But pass is fine, in fact I sort of admire it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halo Posted November 9, 2007 Report Share Posted November 9, 2007 Pull. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MFA Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 I'd pass.It's not like I'm licking my lips or anything, but I feel quite strongly that pass is the percentage action here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrexford Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 Partner asked you to bid. I hate when people say that. He didn't ask us to do anything in particular. He did his best to describe his hand and asked us to do whatever is right. Probably I would have bid 3♥. But double is fine, in fact I sort of admire it. I cannot agree more with this. The single most troubling auction in bridge is when you open something, hear a direct overcall and two passes, and then are semi-forced to double on relative garbage. Partner did not ask you to bid. Partner cursed the fact that he pretty much had to double with this stupid hand and hopes like hell that you guess what to do right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joker_gib Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 Partner is more or less forced to re-open if short in ♦ so I don't have the courage to sit for it... ;) 3♥ Alain Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo81 Posted November 10, 2007 Author Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 I considered this a close decision when I had this at the table. If my ♦J9 were the ♦Qx I would have insta passed, but since I didn't think a ruff would help me, I thought I did not have enough defense to sit and pulled to 3♥. This turned out to be wrong. 3♥ failed, partner had ♠K109xx ♥AQxx ♦Ax ♣Jx. Diamonds were 6-1 with the singleton ♦K in my LHO's hand. I'm not sure I would have reopened with his hand, but it's hard to fault it since it could have led to a top if I had done the right thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 Clear pass against this opponent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 I considered this a close decision when I had this at the table. If my ♦J9 were the ♦Qx I would have insta passed, but since I didn't think a ruff would help me, I thought I did not have enough defense to sit and pulled to 3♥. This turned out to be wrong. 3♥ failed, partner had ♠K109xx ♥AQxx ♦Ax ♣Jx. Diamonds were 6-1 with the singleton ♦K in my LHO's hand. I'm not sure I would have reopened with his hand, but it's hard to fault it since it could have led to a top if I had done the right thing. well partner may have just passed 3D and not reopened. :) We are a passed hand, we did not make a neg double and partner does have Ax of D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 Clear pass with this partner. Top available or not, his double was terrible and got what it deserved when a plus was turned into a minus. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted November 10, 2007 Report Share Posted November 10, 2007 Apollo, pard is limited. Pass is very risky. If this were 2/1, pass is probably ok, but here it's a total gamble. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted November 11, 2007 Report Share Posted November 11, 2007 I considered this a close decision when I had this at the table. If my ♦J9 were the ♦Qx I would have insta passed, but since I didn't think a ruff would help me, I thought I did not have enough defense to sit and pulled to 3♥. Yes, but you have the opportunity with this trump holding to get an initial ruff, and then get the J promoted later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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