| + | North |
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K 5 |
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A Q |
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6 4 2 |
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A K 7 6 3 2 |
| + | East |
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A Q J 10 7 |
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7 6 5 |
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K 9 5 3 |
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5 |
| South |
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9 3 |
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K 10 8 3 2 |
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A J 10 |
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10 9 4 |
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Bridge Deal
from the deal bank
You:
South
Dealer:
West
Vulnerability: none
Source:
Peng YongJi 34
For use by: Intermediate
Click on "q1" below to see question 1, and on "A1" to see the answer.
- Question
1
Your partner North opens 1C. You'd like to reply 1H with your 5-card suit, but your right-hand opponent bids 1S. What a pain. If you now bid 2 hearts, your partner will assume you have a 5 cards in the suit, which you do have, and 9+ points, which you don't have. Is bidding 1NT to show 6-9 HCP a good idea ?
- Question
1
Your partner North opens 1C. You'd like to reply 1H with your 5-card suit, but your right-hand opponent bids 1S. What a pain. If you now bid 2 hearts, your partner will assume you have a 5 cards in the suit, which you do have, and 9+ points, which you don't have. Is bidding 1NT to show 6-9 HCP a good idea ?
Answer
Not the best. After the 1S overcall, you know you are threatened in Spades where you are weak. A negative double shows 6+ points and a 4+ card Heart suit. That's a better bid.
- Question
2
What if you had passed instead of doubling ? What would have been the likely outcome ?
- Question
2
What if you had passed instead of doubling ? What would have been the likely outcome ?
Answer
Your partner would have calculated you had 0-7HCP, and passed, giving the 2S contract to the opposition.
- Question
3
You partner responds to your negative double as if you had bid 1 Heart. So his re-bid of clubs promises 6 club cards. good, your team's probably got a 9-card club fit. In this case, you didn't bid to game, only 4 Clubs.
Should you have risked a 4 Heart game bid, given your 5 hearts ?
- Question
3
You partner responds to your negative double as if you had bid 1 Heart. So his re-bid of clubs promises 6 club cards. good, your team's probably got a 9-card club fit. In this case, you didn't bid to game, only 4 Clubs.
Should you have risked a 4 Heart game bid, given your 5 hearts ?
Answer
No. For all you knew, your partner might have had nothing in hearts. In fact he was short, even though he had the best 2 cards possible. You might have considered bidding 3 Hearts instead of 3 Clubs (raising to 5 cards your "negative double" promise of 4 cards), and partner would have raised to 4 Hearts if he's had 3 cards.
But he doesn't have 3, and would have left it at that. 4H probably won't make here.
By the way, you'd have made more money at the duplicate table on a succesful "bidandmade" of 3H (scoring 90+50), compared with 4C (scoring 80+50).
Other people's bidding
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The card play
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Planning questions
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