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Pass.

Second seat we play strong discipline on QTs for 1 bids. 2nd seat our weak 2's are disciplied too. Happy to back into a major later. Would open this 2 in 3rd. Stiff K is a negative.

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Definitely 1H. You have 6-4 and you are favourable. If partner has no fit, we will probably be going down in game (just because you open sometimes on 10 points, partner does not need a strong NT to force to game). Luckily enough, when you have 6-4 partner will usually have a fit.
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At fav. my weak twos are weak, so I will lower the limit for my 1 Heart opening too.

 

So this hand is borderline and pass and 1 are both possible.

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the main advantage of favorable is that you can make preemtive bids

with a ton more safety than at other colors (and back into auctions).

We do not really have a preemtive bid and if we open we risk getting

too high (vul opps dont always have the goods). If we own the hand

there is plenty of time to show our hand during the bidding (including

some safe backing in after say the opps start with 2s 3c 3d because

of the colors).

 

We dont really want to open the bidding and give p the impression we

really have something and p x expecting something from us we cannot

deliver.

 

pass

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I strongly disagree with pre-empting with a 6-4 holding in the majors. I’ve just seen it too often that when you pre-empt in the long major, game gets missed in the short major. Even using the Rule-of-20, 4 of your HCP are meaningless, effectively reducing the hand to 16.

 

In second seat this is definitely a Pass.

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