Balancing?

[apollo1201]

Still in Xmas mood, red vs green at IMPs, LHO deals and opens 3D, 2 passes follow, and now you have to decide if Santa was more generous with RHO or with partner...

 

AQxx

J9xx

xxx

Ax

 

Would you bid differently at MPs?

[nige1]

[hv=pc=n&s=saq75hj964d863ca7&d=w&v=n&b=12&a=3dpp?]133|200|

 

At IMPs and MPs, I rank

 

 

1. Double = T/O Wrong shape but both majors.

2. Pass = NAT Might avoid a disaster,[/hv]

[nullve]

1. Pass

2. No

[Tramticket]

Yes, I double. Too much chance of a vulnerable game. Less clear at MPs.

[pescetom]

I would double at IMPs (partner knows it is majors-oriented) but pass at MPs.

[gszes]

rho is actually kind of limited due to inability to bid 3n. P was also quite constrained due to the vul and the need for a fair amount of power to bid over 3d. The odds appear to greatly favor action and the probability of rho being able to x (and thus create a disaster) seem exceedingly low. I vote X. At MP the possibility of -200 (even w/o x) might scare me away from bidding but I hate being a chicken bwakkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkkk.

[apollo1201]

Thanks, I actually thought it was less risky at MPs in case something turns really bad. But I did X anyway, thinking it was unlikely partner would convert or bid C (after all m, I am the one with D length so I should find some Majors opposite!). A nice xx AKQxx x xxxxx opposite and some help from opponents for not leading trumps (SK offside, C not breaking) allowed a +620 our way.

[apollo1201]

Thanks, I actually thought it was less risky at MPs in case something turns really bad. But I did X anyway, thinking it was unlikely partner would convert or bid C (after all m, I am the one with D length so I should find some Majors opposite!). A nice xx AKQxx x xxxxx opposite and some help from opponents for not leading trumps (SK offside, C not breaking) allowed a +620 our way.

[msjennifer]

PASS..Distribution not worth taking a risk.

[The_Badger]

Open at one level: just about...mmmm...; balance at three level: just not on. It's a poor 11 count whatever way you look at it. I just about feel confident balancing at the one level. So, so dubious about balancing two levels higher vulnerable. That xxx in ♦s is such a awful holding.

[mikestar13]

Pass, but it's close.

[hamish32]

If you X and partner bids 3M now you have to try to make 9 when you might have been beating 3D. If you C you do so in the hope that partner does not bid C and that he has enough to raise to 4M.

 

When you have such a bad hand he may reaise to 4M and you go light when you are beating 3D.

 

I pass no different at imp or mp.

[dokoko]

 

... thinking it was unlikely partner would convert ...

 

I would be happy if he did.