http://oldprofbridge.com/2008/08/12/a-very-unusual-problem-solution/ Contract Bridge Themes with a Midwest Accent! Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:44:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 http://oldprofbridge.com/2008/08/12/a-very-unusual-problem-solution/#comment-9694 Mon, 22 Dec 2008 00:48:58 +0000 http://oldprofbridge.com/2008/08/12/a-very-unusual-problem-solution/#comment-9694 I would find it difficult to pass this hand at the table, and I pass out far more than my share of deals. I sympathize with the desire to open above the 1 level. 2H neither expresses the hand's values nor shuts out the spades, but 4H feels like too much. (Note that LHO may be able to double 4H for penalty on this particular auction, depending on your opponents' agreements, since he is a passed hand. He isn't going ot double 3H for penalty.) I think 3H has a lot going for it. If partner bids 3NT, I will bid 4C next. (That's the vig...we may find clubs.) If partner passes, I suspect we weren't making 4. I would find it difficult to pass this hand at the table, and I pass out far more than my share of deals. I sympathize with the desire to open above the 1 level. 2H neither expresses the hand’s values nor shuts out the spades, but 4H feels like too much. (Note that LHO may be able to double 4H for penalty on this particular auction, depending on your opponents’ agreements, since he is a passed hand. He isn’t going ot double 3H for penalty.) I think 3H has a lot going for it. If partner bids 3NT, I will bid 4C next. (That’s the vig…we may find clubs.) If partner passes, I suspect we weren’t making 4.

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