Who is more chicken?

[grrigg]

[hv=d=s&v=n&n=skxhjxxxdqxxxcakx&s=saj10xhkqxxxdxcxxx]133|200|Scoring: IMP[/hv]

 

The bidding goes

 

Pass - Pass - 1D - Pass

1H - Pass - 2H - Pass

2S! - Pass - 3H All Pass

 

2S was an artificial bid asking partner to bid the cheapest suit in which he would accept a game try. 3H said that partner wouldnt accept any game try.

 

You have the agreement that partner can raise to 2H on 3-card support and shortness, but somehow you dont recall that ever happening. You can count on 4 card hearts sipport.

[Gerben42]

Partner didn't pass 1♥, so he rates to have a real opening bid. Opposite that, I will just bid 4♥ at IMPs, as there seems to be no way to find out how much he has in ♦.

[dicklont]

This seems normal, I can't vote in this poll.

South has a big disadvantage in his singleton diamonds, but on the other hand he has an extra heart.

If you think bridge is about blaming, blame South.

[Free]

How can one blame North if South makes the first capital blunder? If South wouldn't mastermind, North can't make a mistake.

[mcphee]

I also use a form of asking bids about the major suit raise, but I do not think I would be so concerned about that with this hand and greatly prefer 3C as a game try which the N player accepts.

[pclayton]

I would have opened the South hand, and I definitely would have bid game after a raise.

[SlickRicky]

Hi,

 

South had an easy game bid on this auction, but north should have at least cooperated by bidding 3C with such a good spade holding. They both made serious errors IMO.

 

Ricky

[han]

South.

[hatchett]

I think it's clear for South to bid game opposite the raise.

[jdonn]

Both

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

 

I dont think, you can blame North, he has a weak

NT, oft values, I would not accep an invite either.

Maybe, if you open sounder than average, than

North should reconsider, but I say 0% blame for

North.

 

I think it is 50% South, 50% bad luck, and unless

I am wrong, game is "only" 50%, so missing it

being green is not the end of the world.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

[han]

Both

Of course both underbid, but the question is "who is more chicken". You can't answer both are more chicken! (I did vote for the 3rd option)

[jdonn]

Excellent point. The answer is: han is more chicken.

[skjaeran]

Both are chicken. North should accept a couple invites. However south has an automatic 4♥ hearing partner raising to 2♥, so south is the bigger chicken here.