Another of those threads

[Echognome]

As long as we are going with hypotheticals, how about these?

 

♠AKQx

♥xxxxx

♦x

♣Axx

 

1. Your call over opponent's 1♦ opening?

 

2. Your call over opponent's 1♣ opening?

 

Feel free to indicate any changes due to vulnerability over form of scoring.

[gwnn]

double over 1♦, 1♥ over 1♣. I would like to play 4+♠5+♥ michaels on just this one hand then change back to regular.

[jdonn]

Yay for me!

 

Double 1♦, 1♥ over 1♣.

[Siegmund]

Unless you have something in your system bag for handling 4-5s, double and 1H is obvious. (Thinly veiled brag: with my reg p, I do :) )

[Echognome]

No matchpoint considerations?

[gwnn]

I just like to bid my hand.... usually..

 

I guess at MP 1♠ has more merit than at imp... but still pretty bad and all.

[jjbrr]

dbl over 1♦; 1♥ over 1♣

[minimonkey]

Guess I will dissent, X over 1D is pretty clearcut.

 

I would bid 1S over 1C but not really sure why, I would rather have those spades in the auction than those hearts. Spades probably won't plat too well on diamond forces mind.

 

No real logic behind this choice, just what I would do as I attempt to overcall 1S as often as possible.

[effervesce]

ditto gwynn + jdonn

[mich-b]

dbl over 1♦; 1♥ over 1♣

this.

[Free]

After 1♦ Dbl is clear.

 

After 1♣:

2004 1♥

2007 2♣ showing 44+M

2010 1♠ or pass planning to Dbl later

2013 ???

 

:ph34r:

[hanp]

Double 1♦, 1♥ over 1♣.

me too and I think it is rather obvious.

[hanp]

No matchpoint considerations?

What, no, why?

 

You gave us far too good a hand to do anything but bid our longest suit over 1C. And over 1D a takeout double is just too obvious.

[Phil]

Echo (sorry) the others.

 

1♠ overcall over 1♣ has some superficial appeal, but why can't we expect that this is our hand? I mean, maybe after pard had already passed and we didn't have the ♣A.

[j0i]

I would dbl over 1♦ and bid 1♥ in IMPs against 1♣ but 1♠ in matchpoints

[kenrexford]

I'd double over either minor. If partner bids diamonds at a high level, I know he has a sense of humor, considering what seat he is sitting in, unless we met at the partnership desk.

[jdonn]

Ken please don't give an answer like that in a thread that is supposed to be in my honor. You disgrace my good name.

[kenrexford]

Ken please don't give an answer like that in a thread that is supposed to be in my honor. You disgrace my good name.

If you put a diamond next to a diamond, neither seems to dazzle as much as when you put either next to a plain stone.

[peachy]

Dbl over 1D; 1H over 1C.

I would not criticize much if 1H over either, but I like Dbl better on the 1D.