7-5

[rbforster]

Partner expects you to often open light, should you so choose. At V/V, what's your call?

 

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If you open 1♠ and the auction gets competitive, do you generally plan on introducing your diamonds or do you treat this as a 1-suiter? For example:

 

1♠-(2♣)-2♥-(P)

?

[MFA]

Would always open 4♠ with this hand type.

[mich-b]

4♠.

 

Very seldom it would be right for us to play in ♦s , and this is by far compensated by the cases where the opps having to strt bidding on the 5 level will misjudge level and/or strain.

[655321]

4♠, no second choice.

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

 

4S.

 

I would open 4S, I dont consider this a 1S opener, but assuming I did,

I guess I have to bid 1S.

 

In the given auction, the only issue is, if 3D showes add. values, if not,

than the bid is fine, because I guess this was my plan, as I opened 1S.

And if this was my plan, I would see it through.

Partner bidding hearts did not help, opponents bidding clubs did not hurt.

 

After I opened 1S, if I bid 4S now, I could have opened directly 4S,

because, what would I have done, if there was no comp. and if partner

responded 2H? Would I have bid 2S? followed by 3/4S? over 3H? or

would I have shown my side suit?

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

[OleBerg]

4♠

 

If they compete, I double to show it was bid to make.

 

That might backfire horribly on this hand, but selling out to 5♣/♥ is to poor for me.

[jdonn]

I open 4♠, and almost certainly shut up thereafter.

[ArtK78]

I would open 4♠, but it is not hard to imagine a hand that partner might hold where 5♦ would be a superior spot. Axxxx of diamonds and a singleton spade.

[skjaeran]

Always open hands like this 4♠.

[Cascade]

4♠

 

We miss out on a better spot in diamonds occasionally.

 

They miss out on a dialogue and hence a heart or club game or slam hopefully more often.

 

We miss out on problems like what to do after partner's 2♥ in you auction. Basically if we open 1♠ this hand will not fit nicely into any rebid later.

[Fluffy]

4♠. Opening 1♠ would be just to introduce diamonds and let partner judge, so that's what I'd do in that case.

[NickRW]

Even if you play 2 suited preempts, a hand this extreme looks, to me, to be best given the large number of ♠ treatment.

 

Nick

[mtvesuvius]

4♠ easy

[Phil]

I open 4♠, and almost certainly shut up thereafter.

Exactly. I've overbid this now by rebidding 4♠ at my 2nd turn.