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Re: help needed
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ba-@bigpond.com
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Aug 26, 2007 22:32 PDT
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Adam Wildavsky wrote:
| | I'm trying one more time...
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I can read it this time -- thanks Adam.
| | On 8/24/07, jerome keslin <jet-@netvision.net.il> wrote:
| | Would appreciate some advice on how to bid these hands and avoid
reaching 5H -1, which is what happened
to me after I opened 1H.
I dealt with : Axx, Axxxx, AQxx, K,
My partner held : KJxxx, QTx, KJx, Qx.
Can anyone suggest a reasonable auction?
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One key is for responder to realize that he has a terrible hand. It's
worth only 9.85 using the CCCC algorithm.
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And even though the red-suit honours can be upgraded as the auction
develops (something that version of KnR doesn't take into account), R
knows that one or more of the black suit honours will not be pulling its
weight.
It's worth noting that O's hand, with the stiff CK, is also not as good
as it looks.
| | It's perhaps too strong for
a single raise but certainly not nearly strong enough to force to
game.
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In a recent partnership we treated hands like this (with a GI, a priori)
as GI hands with H support and didn't ever show a second suit (unless we
had six spades, when R had options). Instead we just bid 3C (not KS at
all). This had many advantages: we often had auctions that went
1M-3C-4M so telling the opps nothing. (Most opps sensibly, IMO, played
X of 3C as t/o of the M so could not draw any lead-directing inferences
from its absence.) 3C was also low enough that O had room to look for
3N (3D asked for shortness with 3H showing no shortness or low
shortness; now 3S asked for clarification) meaning that we were not
forced to play 4M willy-nilly.
David
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