shyams Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 [hv=d=e&v=n&s=s96h7542dakq9cajt]133|100|Scoring: XIMPEast deals and opens 2♥, alerted Explained as 5-card ♥ with 4+ card minor; 7-10 HCP. Your choice of action, if any?[/hv] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooltuna Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 [hv=d=e&v=n&s=s96h7542dakq9cajt]133|100|Scoring: XIMPEast deals and opens 2♥, alerted Explained as 5-card ♥ with 4+ card minor; 7-10 HCP. Your choice of action, if any?[/hv] IMO it is best to start with a pass and let partner balance if he has values. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo81 Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 This hand sucks for offense, but is great for defense. Pass, without qualms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
akhare Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Why is this a fix? Seems like I can P now and be happy to defend if pard chooses to pass it out. The more interesting question is what to do if pard backs in with a X... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegmund Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Pass feels like the same thing I'd do over any other 1- or 2-bid showing hearts. I don't see the fix aspect of it either. I guess that at other tables the opps may not have opened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Pass because there is simply nothing else reasonable you can do. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
P_Marlowe Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Hi, Pass. What would you have over a weak two? Pass. With kind regardsMarlowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 [hv=d=e&v=n&s=s96h7542dakq9cajt]133|100|Scoring: XIMPEast deals and opens 2♥, alerted Explained as 5-card ♥ with 4+ card minor; 7-10 HCP. Your choice of action, if any?[/hv] Pass easy....wtp? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OleBerg Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Hopes partner passes too, so I can flash my superior leading-skills. (Not leading from AKQ). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shyams Posted January 16, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Played this in the club last night, and the full hand was:[hv=d=e&v=n&n=sat7hadj7652cq532&w=skq8542hjt3dt3c96&e=sj3hkq986d84ck874&s=s96h7542dakq9cajt]399|300|Scoring: XIMPAt my table, East opened 2♥ and it went all pass.[/hv]We can defeat the contract by 3 (or perhaps 4). But that was insufficient compensation for 11 tricks in 3NT (bid on 7 of 15 tables) or 12 tricks in diamond (3 tables bid game, no one was in slam). At most tables, the East hand passed...Looking at the North hand in isolation, would you act in the 4th seat? Partner said he may have doubled with a 4th spade, but with the actual holding he did not seriously consider bidding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Little Kid Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Double in 4th seat for me: short ♥s and I'm in balancing seat so partner won't be expecting too much and overbid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 With North's holding I wouldn't consider passing, whether seriously or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OleBerg Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Agree with Gnasher that pass isn't an option. (X is a wtp.) It is simple to construct a Lebensohl-variation that distinguishes between 4 and 5+ spades from partner. But even without it, X is stand-out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcphee Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Passing first is totally normal, passing as N is a dismal option. I just do not understand why so many players seem to have this fog that dble here shows 4S, it doesn't, never has and never should. Would this be the same dismal excuse the player would use if they also held the K of C in pass out seat? I would dble 1H with the N had if I was in second seat and 2H as well. Failing to dble simply means you really enjoy the opps stealing the hand from your side. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vilgan Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 No fix here. If they open 2♥ you have the exact same problem. North passing 2♥ was a clear error, but if they don't see it... it might be tough to do anything about it. I would suspect that north is one of the (large % of bridge players) many who will simply go omg I had a meh hand and only 3 spades and consider (forever) anything but pass to be ludicrous. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matmat Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 hijack... swap the NS hands.do you double direct seat? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 You were fixed by north passing on one of the easier doubles in bridge history. Not by the opening bid. You don't have an easy action over that but anything you do will work out better than what happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecalm Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 I pass with your hand.Pass from N is ridiculous at any form of scoring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nigel_k Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 A agree that you should pass and partner should double. If your partner is a non-expert, probably you just need to suggest to them that in the balancing seat it's a good idea to act with a king less than they would need in the direct seat, and he will do that in future. It is a harder problem with the N/S hands switched and you could pass out in 2♥ in that case without anyone doing anything terribly wrong. Though 3NT would be a poor contract then, 5♦ or 2♥X would still be better than 2♥ undoubled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulLanier Posted January 16, 2010 Report Share Posted January 16, 2010 Pass. If partner cannot balance, I would rather defend. And I would save this hand just in case partner ever accuses me of being too aggressive! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codo Posted January 18, 2010 Report Share Posted January 18, 2010 I doubt that I woudl reach 3 NT or 6 Diamond after the first wtp bids (pass and X).I have no idea whether I would play 2 ♥ X or 5 Diamond. I guess the vul. would take me to 5 Diamond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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