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7-5 always 4 ?

Poll: 7-5 always 4 ? (21 member(s) have cast votes)

What is your bid ?

  1. Pass (7 votes [33.33%])

    Percentage of vote: 33.33%

  2. 4[spades] (11 votes [52.38%])

    Percentage of vote: 52.38%

  3. 3[spades] (1 votes [4.76%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.76%

  4. Other (2 votes [9.52%])

    Percentage of vote: 9.52%

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#1 User is offline   dellache 

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Posted 2011-January-25, 00:42


What is your choice, 1st to speak, White versus red, and why ?
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Posted 2011-January-25, 02:28

Hi,

If I open this hand, than it will be 4S.

But I have made up mind a long time ago, to pass with such hands,
it works ok.

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Posted 2011-January-25, 03:07

Passing always works OK, it's very rare that you reach a disaster by passing that can not be averted by bidding in later rounds. However, I think sometimes life is much more difficult and the guesses are closer to impossible when you don't bid with your hyper-distributional hands early on. I will say 4♠ and I won't look back.
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Posted 2011-January-25, 08:55

4♠ seems canonical.
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Posted 2011-January-25, 10:20

4♠ - I pre-empt hands that are distributional when I have any excuse to. Sometimes it backfires, but that doesn't bother me: The amount of times I've won IMPs from pre-empting aggressively far outweighs the downsides IMO.
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Posted 2011-January-25, 10:33

I can't imagine not bidding 4♠. Of course, having a 5-card minor there would be a stronger case for 4♠, but the case is still by far strong enough for me.
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Posted 2011-January-25, 11:33

I'm not sure that ♥ suit qualifies even as a 4 carder, easy 4♠
I once yelled at my partner for discarding the 'wrong' card when he was subjected to a squeeze that I allowed by giving the wrong count with too high a card. Now he's allowed to pitch aces when the opponents have the king in the dummy. At trick 2. When he could have followed suit. And blame me.

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Posted 2011-January-25, 11:49

4♠ for me too. I am aware of the flaws, but I am also aware my long history of great results when preempting on hands like this.
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