Two part question

[han]

[hv=d=e&v=n&s=saq8642h109862d9cj]133|100|Scoring: IMP

(p) - ??[/hv]

 

There will be a part two later. What's your call?

[kfay]

Pass. I'll bid later.

[karlson]

I pass. Not enough high cards for 1s, and just too good for hearts for any other number.

 

(Obviously?) if I had something that showed the majors, I would use it.

[rbforster]

Yeah, normal methods it looks like a pass. 3rd seat I'd bid something, but 2nd just seems like it's asking to find the wrong strain.

[dicklont]

Normal pass, let's see what's next.

[gwnn]

I would pass, but I would hate it very bad. 2nd seat is not the place to be imaginative.

[jdonn]

I would pass too, but I don't think it would turn out as unanimous as the responses so far make it seem.

[Guest Jlall]

I am a passer, I like to preempt if my hearts are a minor, but opening 2S with 5 hearts just rates to lose hearts too much for my liking.

[Codo]

Luckily I can bid 2 ♥ for both majors.

 

Without this tool, I would pass, even if I could open this hand due to the rule of 18.

[mike777]

Luckily I can bid 2 ♥ for both majors.

 

Without this tool, I would pass, even if I could open this hand due to the rule of 18.

2h if it shows thishand excatly..wtp?

2s if it shows this hand excatly..wtp?

pass if this hand is included in pass.

[foo]

East,N/S,IMP,

 

AQ8642,T9862,9,J

 

(p) - ??

 

There will be a part two later. What's your call?

An easy pass unless We have a systemic bid to show this hand.

[helene_t]

My first inclination was pass but then I recognized the hand and remembered that I opened 1♠. (Not quite, I think my hand has the jack of spades also, maybe that made the difference).

[pclayton]

Pass for now.

[P_Marlowe]

Pass, even if it hurts.

But I have decided for my own years ago,

that I pass with this kind of hand.

 

My partner would open 2S, intending to

bid hearts the next round.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

[Walddk]

Interesting. I thought I knew the hand from yesterday's 4th segment of the English Open Trials. But that hand was ...

 

♠ AK8653

♥ 109875

♦ 8

♣ 3

 

... so it can't be. Very similar though.

 

With the hand Han posted here I will pass. I will likely also pass the hand Jason Hackett and Gunnar Hallberg had on vugraph. Jason did, Hallberg opened 2♠.

 

Roland

[Finch]

With the hand Han posted here I will pass. I will likely also pass the hand Jason Hackett and Gunnar Hallberg had on vugraph. Jason did, Hallberg opened 2♠.

 

Roland

...and the 2S opening was not a success

(or at least, his subsequent actions led to it not being a success!)

[kenrexford]

I have to admit that I would be inclined to open 2♠ as well, only because we are vulnerable.

 

I'm not convinced that passing makes heart more likely to enter the fray all that much. I could see a lot of auctions were my next problem is whether to focus first the spades or to make a Michaels bid. I'd be inclined to end up with a 2♠ call, later, that has the same problem.

 

That said, let's see if I can out-do this chap as to the follow-up question. LOL

[Fluffy]

I would open 3♠

[han]

OK, a nearly unanimous vote for passing. I opened 2S. If you cannot live with 2S then you can just abstain from the next question.

 

It goes

 

(p) - 2S - (3C) - 4S

(5C) - ??

 

Your call?

[kfay]

I cannot live with 2♠. That on top of the greatest school in the history of mankind losing to some nonames from that state down south is just too much for me in a weekend.

 

Goodbye cruel world!!!!

 

.... 5♥

[inquiry]

1♠ (were this is legal, otherwise pass), wtp?

 

BTW, I kibitzed this hand, so answering subsequent questions might be infuenced by the actual events.

[keylime]

I might table 1♠ if I was with Larry just because of the tremendous potential of trick taking I have in 2 suits. However, 2♠ is a little too offbeat for me.

 

Once tho you elect 2♠, 5♥, definitely.

[foo]

OK, a nearly unanimous vote for passing. I opened 2S. If you cannot live with 2S then you can just abstain from the next question.

 

It goes

 

(p) - 2S - (3C) - 4S

(5C) - ??

 

Your call?

If you open ♠AQ8642 ♥T9862 ♦9 ♣J you are basically committing yourself to not let Them play the hand below the six (maybe the seven...) level.

 

5H. In tempo.

[jdonn]

I pass for sure. Assuming partner doesn't have too much heart length, this is plenty of defense for a weak 2. Yes he could be long in hearts, but I'm not positioned to make that guess.

[hrothgar]

Part 1: Playing standard North American methods I pass.

 

Part 2: If I understand the problem correctly, we're red and they are white. Its unclear whether I want to bid 5 over 5. If I do bid 5 over 5, I am sure as hell NOT bidding 5♥. My 2♠ opening strongly suggested a single suited hand. My new suits at the five level don't suggest an alternative place to play; rather they are lead directing. Why would I ever bid 5♥?

 

I don't want a heart lead and I don't want to provide the opponent's with extra bidding space to describe their hand.

 

I can live with 5♠ (I don't like it)

I like Pass.

But never 5♥.