jdonn Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 Looking at my hand I give 6♣ a 95% shot to make. Wow, I would have said 50% to 60% or so. The opponents were under great pressure and we have 3 possible tricks, one of which is pretty likely to cash. Also partner is allowed to have something outside his suit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 I am somewhat stunned by all the bidders. The 5N bid was not a grand slam try; it came under tremendous pressure; and I have a smattering of defense. I pass now, wondering if 4H may have worked better than 5H. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codo Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 And I believe that you will get many bad results from opening this hand in a 2/1 system. You simply cannot stop the train opposite say Kxx,x,Axxx,AQxxx and this is by no means a minimum for 2 Club over 1 Heart. I wouldn't want to force to game with less than that in a misfit hand. A clear 1nt semiforcing for me....yes that means partner may pass......not a game force if you open 1H with this hand type. Okay Mike, shall we ask Ben to look at bridge browser how many 2/1 auction he finds which started with 1 Heart 1 NT, where the 1 NT bid contents 13 HCPS? You are allowed to play a system where you can systematically open 7 HCP hands. But I doubt that this approach fits well into the system Richard played on that weekend with that partner. And I doubt that this approach fits in any 2/1 system at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 Well this hand looks close to 9 hcp or something. Not what I would consider close to a sound opening bid which is 14 hcp or a few 13 hcp for me. :( That is why I opened 2h..several days ago. :)If that was allowed. If you are going to make me open on junk then pls let me bid 1nt with 13 hcp responder hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cascade Posted January 17, 2008 Report Share Posted January 17, 2008 Well this hand looks close to 9 hcp or something. Not what I would consider close to a sound opening bid which is 14 hcp or a few 13 hcp for me. :) That seems a very conservative opening style. If you really open only a few of your 13 counts then you can close to double your opening frequency by opening the rest of the 13 counts and 12 counts and 11 counts. With the 6-4 shape of the hand in this thread some might even open 10 counts. At this vulnerability I believe getting your suits in early has huge advantages even on less distributional hands. Of course there is a cost that sometimes you will get too high but I think that is minor compared with the frequency of disrupting the opponents. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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