What do you bid?

[beatrix45]

:P

 

I think with minor suit 8 and 9 baggers you have a basic choice: blast or walk the dog. This hand looks like a dog walker with its 3 bullets and ratty suit you could stand to have more information, but two other factors are also important: the quality of the opponents and the state of the match. Against high quality opposition, blasting is better. Also, are you going for a favorable swing or just to halve the board?

 

You could really bid anything with this hand. To try to halve the board against good opposition, you might bid 5C. To set a trap for good opposition, try 3C. To walk the dog against a non-seeded pair you would bid 2C or even pass. Feel of the table is critical here. You hold a rare and unexpected asset, so use it to do unto the opponents and do not let them do unto you.

 

Trixie

[Free]

I was the opposition :P

[Echognome]

I would also like to add to the preposterous accusation against Luis (whom I have never met online or otherwise).

 

You open a weak two hearts. Is your suit quality discussed with your regular partner? Does it depend if you're in 1st/2nd/3rd/4th? Vulnerable/Non-Vulnerable?

 

I know that on our convention card our point range says ATV = according to vulnerability. If opponents ask, we are happy to say what we "expect" partner to have in a particular seat and vulnerability. (e.g. 1st Favorable = 0-5)

 

Convention cards are simply not big enough to fill in all of your agreements with partner. Luis' point, which I interpret as, trying to be consistent with your bidding with partner is ust one of building partnership trust and learning partner's style.

 

I also believe that you can't have agreements about every aspect of the game, there are too many sequences to cover. So if you don't have an agreement, you have a tendency. If you have a tendency, which you are fully willing to disclose, how is that a "secret partnership agreement"?

 

I'd say that unless you play against Luis, you shouldn't make such accusations, and if you do, then here is not the proper forum for them.

[P_Marlowe]

Double, with the intention to rebid clubs as cheaply

as possible, this will describe my hand pretty well.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe