Zelandakh Posted July 6, 2012 Report Share Posted July 6, 2012 Michael you are preempting a hand that has already passed.Our partner has also already passed. So if we are weak enough not to have game on without support then we can happily preempt knowing that RHO must have some strength for their opening bid. Similarly we can jump to game on almost anything from a Yarborough to any hand where we can rule out slam. I am a strong believer in wide-ranging preempts opposite a passed partner, and the extra ambiguity if the opponents play weirdness in third seat makes this even more enticing. Either the points are evenly distributed and we are (probably) at our Law level, or Opener has a biggy and our preempt is against strength - great. This is not that dissimilar from preempting with good hands as well as total rubbish in third seat to make life miserable for fourth hand. The less information the opening bid conveys the more these cases converge. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benlessard Posted July 6, 2012 Report Share Posted July 6, 2012 opps are vul and Im assuming they know -200 is a bad MP score. So I expect that they have some hope of making 3C, I also understand that im going to compete to 3H agressively here knowing that its going to be tough for them to double me and that 3H -2 undoubled is probably going to be a very good MP score. So if im willing to bid 3H agressively with some 6-9 pts hands why would I also bid 3H with a pretty good limit raise ? Also my style is to open light with lead directing suit, here I have KJ so my guess is that partner is 70% favorite to have a real opening. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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