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After partners response of 1♠ how should i show my good support?
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Posted 2021-January-15, 05:52
I would bid a 4♦ splinter, but I imagine a lot of players would settle for a 3♠ invitational raise. Some pairs might have a 3♦ mini-splinter in their arsenal.
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Posted 2021-January-15, 06:00
maris oren, on 2021-January-15, 05:24, said:
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After partners response of 1♠ how should i show my good support?
After partners response of 1♠ how should i show my good support?
You can make an aggressive leap to 4D, as a splinter. That might well lead to slam but it is a bit of an overbid.
Or you could raise to 3S, showing extra values because 2S would show a minimum opening hand.
It’s difficult to be objective when seeing all the cards, because one can see that 6S is a pretty good contract, and that will influence how one thinks.
I’d suggest, in future, just giving us one hand. Show us east’s hand and the auction 1H (P) 1S (P) ? That way people won’t be influenced by knowing ‘what works best on this layout’
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Posted 2021-January-15, 06:25
mikeh, on 2021-January-15, 06:00, said:
You can make an aggressive leap to 4D, as a splinter. That might well lead to slam but it is a bit of an overbid.
Or you could raise to 3S, showing extra values because 2S would show a minimum opening hand.
It’s difficult to be objective when seeing all the cards, because one can see that 6S is a pretty good contract, and that will influence how one thinks.
I’d suggest, in future, just giving us one hand. Show us east’s hand and the auction 1H (P) 1S (P) ? That way people won’t be influenced by knowing ‘what works best on this layout’
Or you could raise to 3S, showing extra values because 2S would show a minimum opening hand.
It’s difficult to be objective when seeing all the cards, because one can see that 6S is a pretty good contract, and that will influence how one thinks.
I’d suggest, in future, just giving us one hand. Show us east’s hand and the auction 1H (P) 1S (P) ? That way people won’t be influenced by knowing ‘what works best on this layout’
The first question, do you want to force to game ? it's a slight overbid but AJxx, xxx, xxxx, xx would seem to be pretty much all you need (yes partner might have Jxxx, Jx, KJxx, xxx where 3 is too many).
I have no strong feeling whether you should bid 3♠ or 4♦ playing normal methods. We have to use 3♠ (or 4♠ which for us would typically be 46 and not quite this good) becaus we have different agreements about 4♦ to what's standard (void specifically) and we're not good enough for the GF unbal 2N which is how we bid this shape a bit better
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Maris Oren 'After partners response of 1♠ how should i show my good support?
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The good slam is easy to reach after a splinter reveals the lack of ♦ duplication.
I rank:
1. 3♦ = SPL - A mini-splinter -- only if you've agreed to play them
2. 3♠ = LIM
3. 4♦ = SPL.'