Comments on: Few Options - Bidding Solution http://oldprofbridge.com/2008/08/12/few-options-bidding-solution/ Contract Bridge Themes with a Midwest Accent! Thu, 09 Sep 2010 21:29:10 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.0.9 by: Jeff Miller http://oldprofbridge.com/2008/08/12/few-options-bidding-solution/#comment-1812 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 04:05:26 +0000 http://oldprofbridge.com/2008/08/12/few-options-bidding-solution/#comment-1812 Anonymous -- a 5S bid often asks a specific question. In my partnerships it might ask for second-round control of the enemy suit. When that is clearly not relevant, it might say I have controls, do you have good trumps. Other times -- partner can tell -- it says I have a great hand with solid trumps, how are your controls? In this case, how would you expect partner to evaluate a hand like xxx, Kxx, Kx, KQJxxx? No first-round controls and bad trumps. When partner cannot make the right answer, why ask the question? Having said this, I recognize that many would agree with your solution! Thanks, Jeff Anonymous — a 5S bid often asks a specific question. In my partnerships it might ask for second-round control of the enemy suit. When that is clearly not relevant, it might say I have controls, do you have good trumps. Other times — partner can tell — it says I have a great hand with solid trumps, how are your controls?

In this case, how would you expect partner to evaluate a hand like xxx, Kxx, Kx, KQJxxx? No first-round controls and bad trumps. When partner cannot make the right answer, why ask the question?

Having said this, I recognize that many would agree with your solution!

Thanks,

Jeff

]]> by: Anonymous http://oldprofbridge.com/2008/08/12/few-options-bidding-solution/#comment-1806 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 17:02:32 +0000 http://oldprofbridge.com/2008/08/12/few-options-bidding-solution/#comment-1806 I like the effort to help partner avoid a problem. I don't think there is any such problem if you bid 5S though - I am passing whatever partner bids, no matter the tempo in which he bids it. I don't see a reason to be so unilateral when 6S makes less than 2/3 of the time, and there are reasonable possibilities of finding a better contract. I like the effort to help partner avoid a problem. I don’t think there is any such problem if you bid 5S though - I am passing whatever partner bids, no matter the tempo in which he bids it. I don’t see a reason to be so unilateral when 6S makes less than 2/3 of the time, and there are reasonable possibilities of finding a better contract.

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