Hand evaluation, help me with these 2 hands.

[MrAce]

I think 1 is an easy raise and 2 is an easy pass. But the real reason I posted in this thread is to express my disappointment that mr ace didn't go nuts at the idea of passing on the first hand.

 

 

Sorry to disappoint you bro ! I don't think i can go nuts on anything lately due to work, i have basically 30 mins left to me to read forums.

[TWO4BRIDGE]

Here's a couple of recent hands where I feel I have made poor judgement calls.

Let's say playing against world class opponents. One hand is from the JEC match the other from a weak game but

I really don't want to perpetuate the bad habits I think I pickup playing weak games.

 

 

Hand1

[hv=pc=n&s=sa52ht7d9762ct986&d=s&v=n&b=15&a=pp1s2c]133|200[/hv]

 

Hand2

[hv=pc=n&s=s93hj962dt32c9864&d=n&v=b&b=13&a=1h1s]133|200[/hv]

I have 3 partners : Conservative, aggressive, in-between .

 

Even my aggressive partner would have expected a little more from me if I responded to either of these -- especially Vul .

 

If they didn't expect much in competition & non-vul, then I'd make simple 2M raise.

[lycier]

Here's a couple of recent hands where I feel I have made poor judgement calls.

Let's say playing against world class opponents. One hand is from the JEC match the other from a weak game but

I really don't want to perpetuate the bad habits I think I pickup playing weak games.

 

 

Hand1

[hv=pc=n&s=sa52ht7d9762ct986&d=s&v=n&b=15&a=pp1s2c]133|200[/hv]

 

Hand2

[hv=pc=n&s=s93hj962dt32c9864&d=n&v=b&b=13&a=1h1s]133|200[/hv]

 

1- I would bid pass.2♠ was an overbid.

 

What bid is 2♠? I think 2♠ bidder maybe promise that he has the ability to withstand pardner's game tries in next turn,unfortunately responder can't be able to do it,so pass is a good option in this case.

 

2-pass .If my H suit is KXXX,I am willing to bid 3H as a preemptive raise.

[phil_20686]

I would pass on both, but I would bid nv with both. Not surprised to be in the ,minority on hand one but I think people are generally too aggressive in that spot. Whatever though its a borderline hand.

 

I bid 2S on the first one, and pass on the second.

 

On the first one, it is not so much that my hand is "good enough" as that when you raise partner he will lead his own suit fairly often, when you dont raise he will almost never lead his own suit. With Axx I really want him to lead his one suit from QTxxx or KTxxx or other broken holdings, so I should raise for that reason.

 

It could easily be their hand and LHO will bid 3N over whatever I bid, in which case I will regret not bidding 2S.

 

Conversely, holding xxx in the spade suit would be a good reason not to raise in a hand like xxx xx Axxx xxxx even though I still hold "an ace and a ruffing value".

 

Otherwise agree with Justin that people are in general too aggressive. Though I would bid the same NV. I really strongly hate bidding 3H with hand two. Just seems absurd to me.

[phil_20686]

On the invite/accept thing.

 

I think the main parts of inviting conservatively are: firstly, is that it allows you to widen the ranges for a first response. Secondly, that 10 counts are much more common than 14/15 counts, so you play at the three level a lot less often playing conservative invites. Ten is the most common number of points, so you want the hand that needs to be furthest from ten to be making the first move.

 

I strongly advocate moving to kokish game tries, where the first bid up asks responder "in what suit would you accept a game try", firstly because they seem to work better, and secondly because when you do play in 3H you have not given away any specific information at all except that opener has an invitation.

[JLOGIC]

I bid 2S on the first one, and pass on the second.

 

On the first one, it is not so much that my hand is "good enough" as that when you raise partner he will lead his own suit fairly often, when you dont raise he will almost never lead his own suit. With Axx I really want him to lead his one suit from QTxxx or KTxxx or other broken holdings, so I should raise for that reason.

 

It could easily be their hand and LHO will bid 3N over whatever I bid, in which case I will regret not bidding 2S.

 

Conversely, holding xxx in the spade suit would be a good reason not to raise in a hand like xxx xx Axxx xxxx even though I still hold "an ace and a ruffing value".

 

Otherwise agree with Justin that people are in general too aggressive. Though I would bid the same NV. I really strongly hate bidding 3H with hand two. Just seems absurd to me.

 

I agree that having the ace of spades is and out is a good reason for raising spades