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Re: help needed
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Steve Willner
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Aug 27, 2007 19:24 PDT
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| | | | I dealt with : Axx, Axxxx, AQxx, K,
My partner held : KJxxx, QTx, KJx, Qx.
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Adam Wildavsky wrote:
| | One key is for responder to realize that he has a terrible hand. It's worth
only 9.85 using the CCCC algorithm. It's perhaps too strong for a single
raise but certainly not nearly strong enough to force to game. A KS Updated
auction might go something like this:
1H 1S
2D 2H
3S 4S
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Why 3S? Isn't 2S already pretty strong? I'd expect 3S to show a
singleton club, though I don't see that in the notes.
This looks more plausible to me through 3D, but I don't see why 4S.
Responder could still have only four. I think 3H by opener is OK.
With the double fit and good diamonds, responder is worth game and even
the mild 3D slam try, but I don't see why opener (with a minimum for the
2D sequence) would ever be tempted to go above game. After opener bids
3H, responder has nothing extra and signs off in 4H. (If opener had a
much better hand, he could carry on.) Obviously I think 3D here should
be a game force. Why play in a minor when you have two playable major
suit fits? However, the notes seem vague.
| | If responder decides to force to game things could turn ugly:
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Yep. Opposite _my_ 1H opening, responder shouldn't be even slightly
tempted, but opposite Kaplan's or Kay's....
(Adam's posts all came through fine for me on two different systems --
Windows XP and Solaris. It's weird that they didn't work for others.)
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