P_Marlowe Posted February 1, 2011 Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 3S. And 3S is certainly not preemptive, why should it? With kind regardsMarlowe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manudude03 Posted February 1, 2011 Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 4♠ for me, I expect partner to leave it unless he has a GOSH AND not a good hand for ♠. For me, this is really on the top end of 4♠. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted February 1, 2011 Report Share Posted February 1, 2011 When partner doubles with short spades and a long minor he has to be prepared to deal with high-level spade bids by me. It's not my problem. I think it's much more sensible to bid our hands and let partner worry about bidding his. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
peachy Posted February 2, 2011 Report Share Posted February 2, 2011 2S obvious. Hand is too good for 3S (6-carder + weak hand) and much too good for 1S. The shape is not the best though spade spots and length make this a nice hand so any dreams of 4S should be extinguished asap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeartA Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 When partner doubles with short spades and a long minor he has to be prepared to deal with high-level spade bids by me. It's not my problem. I think it's much more sensible to bid our hands and let partner worry about bidding his.I don't buy this logic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtvesuvius Posted February 9, 2011 Report Share Posted February 9, 2011 I don't buy this logic.You bid your handPartner will bid hisMagical things happen Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 You bid your handPartner will bid hisMagical things happenBidding isn't just "bid your hand". It's also making decisions. The #1 source of mix-ups in natural bidding happens precisely when partners don't realize there's a time to bid what you have and a time to make decisions. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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gwnn Posted February 23, 2011 Report Share Posted February 23, 2011 Bidding isn't just "bid your hand". It's also making decisions. The #1 source of mix-ups in natural bidding happens precisely when partners don't realize there's a time to bid what you have and a time to make decisions.Sure enough this sounds OK in general. However we were talking about a particular case: that when partner makes a takeout double, we are entitled to assume he has a normal takeout double (i.e. support for all unbid suits) and if he has a GOSH he is the one who has to worry about us bidding some long suit of ours and not the other way around (we should be wary of the possibility of him holding a GOSH and bid our suit only cautiously)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted February 24, 2011 Report Share Posted February 24, 2011 My comment was meant for a general setting. You should plan for a GOSH rebid only if you suspect, from seeing your hand, that's likely pard has one. Example: (1♣) dbl (pass) ?? KxxxxxQxxxx-xx Normally you'd want to bid 2♣ (or even 4♣) but here you might suspect pard has a diamond GOSH, so perhaps 1♠ is a better bid. If pard then bids the expected 2♦, you can continue with 3♥. As for the hand in the opening post, it doesn't seem too likely pard has a GOSH (not to me, at least), so you should bid as if he had a normal take out dbl. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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