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Another weird hand to handle


Hanoi5

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They're red, you're white, partner deals and you hold:

 

T9

AKQJ

QT987xx

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It's temas and the bidding starts:

 

1-Pa-?

 

Say you bid 1, your longer suit by three cards:

 

1-Pa-1-Pa

1-Pa

 

What now?

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It goes on:

 

1-Pa-1-Pa

1-Pa-2-Pa

2-Pa-3-Pa

3-Pa-?

 

Partner wants to know whether we have a heart stopper. I think AKQJ just barely qualifies, so I will tell him the good news by bidding 3NT.

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If you play rather weak openings and 1S shows 4S and 5+C, I strongly suggest 2NT.

 

Yeah partner is gonna be real happy when he goes down in 5 because we didn't have the 2 small clubs he thought we had.

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If you play rather weak openings and 1S shows 4S and 5+C, I strongly suggest 2NT. This hand is very likely a misfit hand and you should probably stay low.

 

In my experience what happens here is:

 

Responder thinks: We have a mis-fit so i had better put the breaks on by bidding 2N. Then partner will know to stay low.

 

What partner actually thinks: My distributional hand will play very nicely opposite a balanced 10-12 count. Since I cannot find out which cards he actually has, and many configurations give good play for game, I might as well blast 5C.

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