They are hoping for a response in 3-4 weeks, so I expect to submit around April 14, maybe earlier if we have clear leaders
I’ll get this one and the later one in over the next couple of days (got busy here …)
Yech! Normally I don’t make comments, but since there don’t seem to be any, I’ll add mine Saturday.
A) 4S
B) 4S
C) 3N
D) 3N
E) 3N
F) 3C
G) 4S
H) Club 7
Okay, one comment on B) really, down 2 is sort of the worst case (a good sacrifice) and we might make it.
A. 3N. Most likely game
B. 2S. Certainly not only 1S.
C. 2D. Not going to stop short of game, but just bidding 4S or 3N could be better
D. 3N. With 2 diamond stops and some help in clubs, I think this is best. If 4S makes, 3N likely will also.
E. Dbl. Preempts work. Unfortunately there is no bid partner can make that will make me confident of reaching the best contract.
F. 1NT. I don’t think I should bid 3C with only distributional values
G. 3NT. This one seems easiest, since imps.
H. Diamond 3. Spade second choice, but partner did not overcall
| A | B | C | D | E | F | G | H | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| procrastinator | ||||||||
| oirg | ||||||||
| SW | 3N | 2S | 2D | 3N | Dbl | 1N | 3N | D3 |
| Klaymen | ||||||||
| ST | ||||||||
| BTDT | 4S | 4S | 3N | 3N | 3N | 3C | 4S | C7 |
| NN | ||||||||
| veni vidi vici | ||||||||
| Leading | ||||||||
| We couldn’t have a leader, which requires agreement by 3. Having agreement by 2 only only 1 question is not a good start. |
oirg by e-mail
OOOPS!!
On A) I misread Pard’s bid. (I saw 3 Spades.) … 3N
Opp’s bid. But assume intent now is 3N regardless
A. 4 hearts. A bit pushy, second choice is 3 hearts. Don’t like 3NT with just two clubs.
B. 3 spades. 65 white on red, will preempt more, even with minor inconvenience of RHO opening in my 5 card suit.
C. 4 spades. Don’t think we are likely to want to play in hearts even if pd has 4.
D. 3 diamonds. Leaving room for pd to show a spade fragment.
E. Double. Feels a bit weird to not immediately show AKJxx of support, but want to play in spades if pd has 4 (particularly at MPs).
F. 3 clubs. Yuck. Don’t like it, but alternatives seem worse. Second choice is 5C.
G. 4 spades. What is the saying, where there are nine tricks, there is a tenth?
H. Diamond 3, more for safety at MPs than thinking we will get to run this suit. Partner could not find a call all white at MPs over 1C, think we just trying to limit the overtricks.
A) 3H. I know I should bid 3NT, but that is too much of a distortion.
B) 2S. Perhaps too cautious.
C) 4S. Aiming for 3NT may work, but this is the book bid.
D) 3NT. If I bid 3H, we’ll never find 3NT.
E) Dbl. Seems easy for now, but then again this may be our last chance to bid 3NT if pard doesn’t have four spades.
F) 3C. Distortion. Maybe I should bid 4C over partner’s 3NT.
G) 3S. Perfect.
H) H2. Yuck.
Partner Chip breaks one tie but creates another.
I expect to submit votes on all three sets by midnight (maybe earlier) so get votes/changes/comments in. I will try to alert ST, 4Sigma and Klaymen again by e-mail but am not optimistic about getting anything.
On B I went with 3S, knowing how I hate to be faced with higher preempts. On G I will have to play the “I told you so” card when 3N is the winner, but it surely was not our consensus. Oh H I would have been willing to go with a spade instead of my own D3, but only clubs and the diamond 3 had 2 votes. With the club 10, when dummy bid clubs and declarer has no major, I think a club is far more likely to blow a trick. I chose to submit the D7, since system notes say 2nd highest (but highest of equals) from a weak suit against NT.
The comments I submitted:
A. Descriptive. Partner can see the conditions.
B. Applying more pressure than 2S, but not so much that they have no alternative to doubling us.
C. Surely worth a game force, and if partner has 4 hearts we’ll play there.
D. Witth the diamond AQ, 3N looks good.
E. An unpleasant choice, but partner may have 4 spades
F. Unattractive, but we do want clubs as trumps, unless partner tries 3N with Ax
G. Opposite a double negative, 4S is not a good bet even though it could make. 3N has appeal since it makes unless they can take the first 5, but with 3S surely making I’ll take the plus.
H. Should give nothing away, with some chance partner will have enough to make them worry about diamonds, since they don’t know I have no entries.
Despite my comment (for publication) on A, another important principle is “when acting over preempts, assume partner has some values”. With 4 of us voting for some game vs only 3 for just 3H, perhaps I should have declared the majority vote was game. But since the majority was 5-2 for playing spades, that would have meant choosing 4S, and while 4S is reasonable so is just 3.