Antrax Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 Matchpoints, unfavourable. Lefty opens 1♠ passed to you.♠9xxxx ♥KQJTx ♦xx ♣xDo you reopen and what with? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 Pass. I don't understand this board. I am this long in spades and p still passed. I suspect partner has a 2m overcall but pulled a green card by mistake. He might have a long and very weak minor and a short chubby other minor (x Ax AQJx Jxxxxx?). But that's OK, it could work out for the best. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mich-b Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 Pass.I am long in their suit and weak.Bidding would often result in going down in some high contract. You mean -80 wasn't a good score for us? Well , my guess is that happened either because RHO passed with a hand others responded with and got too high , or because pd preferred to Pass when others made a "modern"/imperfect takeout double. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antrax Posted March 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 I mean in all the other tables they got too high and went down. Lefty had a 19 count and his partner had zilch, so the only way I see for them to end up higher (since you can't beat 1♠) is for whoever held my cards to balance. It seemed like completely the wrong call (for the reasons mentioned), but whenever I do something nobody else does, I check my sanity. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mich-b Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 I mean in all the other tables they got too high and went down. Lefty had a 19 count and his partner had zilch, so the only way I see for them to end up higher (since you can't beat 1♠) is for whoever held my cards to balance. It seemed like completely the wrong call (for the reasons mentioned), but whenever I do something nobody else does, I check my sanity. I would guess that in most other tables it didnt go 1S -P -P -?If LHO had 19 , and RHO 0 , your pd had 15. Perhaps in many other tables your pd's hand found a call with the 15 count? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Antrax Posted March 7, 2012 Author Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 Sorry, I thought later "zilch" might be misleading. He had a queen and two jacks or so, not enough to make a response in a standard system. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahydra Posted March 7, 2012 Report Share Posted March 7, 2012 Right, but that still leaves partner with an 11-count, so why hasn't he bid :/ (having said that, the hand is almost certainly a misfit now, and at unfavourable +80 may well be par!) ahydra 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SimonFa Posted March 10, 2012 Report Share Posted March 10, 2012 If lefty had 19 HCP maybe the other tables opened 2NT or 2C? Playing a lot of GIB tournaments recently I have noticed that a lot of humans open those on much less. Simon 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Statto Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 I bid 2♥. It's light for unfavourable but I expect partner to have something, not least the King I borrowed. If 2♠ comes back round (unlikely), I'm more happy to sit that. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the hog Posted March 12, 2012 Report Share Posted March 12, 2012 I pass and this is not a difficult decision. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcurt Posted March 14, 2012 Report Share Posted March 14, 2012 This is just example 4676432 why matchpoints is a different animal from IMPs. We are taking at least 4 more tricks in hearts than spades, ergo we have to bid against NV opponents in a1-level contract. Hopefully partner not overcalling depite short spades puts some limit on his ability to bury me for balancing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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