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(2H)-?: 2S or 3S


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RHO opens 2D weak or 2H weak.

What is the minimal hand with which you bid 3S iso 2S?

This is a system question, No Vuln or match type defined.

Example hands:

AQJxxx / Kx / xx / KJx

AQJxxxx / Kx / x / KJx

AQJTxx / Kx / xx / KQx

 

Thanks,

Koen

Edited: Changed 2nd hand from D xx to D x

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I would define 3 as 7.5-8.5 playing tricks.

 

The last hand qualifies if opps don't consider AQxxxx and nothing else to be a sufficient weak 2 - which is ridiculous but not unheard of - and if we're vulnerable, I'm not in 3rd seat (with a passed partner and unpassed LHO), and I'm feeling lucky.

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I would define 3 as 7.5-8.5 playing tricks.

I do not think it needs to be quite as strong as this - closer is a hand that would double and bid rather than overcall but this is not quite right either since some hands that would take this route at the 1 level will still double now (because they are flexible rather than 1-suited). With 8.5 tricks I am more likely to be looking at a 4S bid than 3S.

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Does that mean you needed to read it three or four times?

Is this not the same thing? In the same way that more than 2 is the same as 3 or more for a variable that can only take integer form. But I used re-read to show that this was each time I returned to the thread rather than reading it through 3 or 4 times and then remembering it thereafter so i guess I have read it through at least 7 or 8 times in all :unsure: .

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RHO opens 2D weak or 2H weak.

What is the minimal hand with which you bid 3S iso 2S?

This is a system question, No Vuln or match type defined.

Example hands:

AQJxxx / Kx / xx / KJx

AQJxxxx / Kx / x / KJx

AQJTxx / Kx / xx / KQx

 

Thanks,

Koen

Edited: Changed 2nd hand from D xx to D x

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Just to sound like a very careful expert, I'd like to say that the third hand is a 2 bid over 2 but a 3 bid over 2. ;)

 

@kgr: yes I think that definition is pretty accurate, about the best way to express it if you want to express it with numbers.

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Just to sound like a very careful expert, I'd like to say that the third hand is a 2 bid over 2 but a 3 bid over 2. ;)

Why is that?

Is there a difference in overcalling 2 and 2

Or is?:

AQJTxx / xx / Kx / KQx

2 over 2 & 3 over 2

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