INTERNET POST
By Arlene Port
You are South, Matchpoints, BOTH Vulnerable. Here is your hand:
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Ernie Retetagos: 2NT Partner figures to have a singleton heart and a 5 card black suit. If it is spades they will transfer, and if it's clubs East may not find a club shift. Also, partner doesn't have to have a yarborough.
Bill Holt Pass. +200 will beat any part score we can make and any game I cannot bid. Partner is broke & doesn't have Spades. I could bid 2NT or 3d or even try 3NT but I will be end-played out of my hand the whole time. On defense, I have 2+ Spades, 2 Hearts, 2-3 Diamonds and a way to tap declarer in diamonds - if declarer loses control of the hand I will make my small diamonds.
Gail Carns: Pass Partner has a lot of clubs and didn't bid so they have no points. 2H could go down 200
Jim Bachelder: Double: I'll venture a 2nd double, intending to correct 3C to 3D. Who knows, partner might have: KXXXX, X, XXX, XXXX
Jim Bossert 3d (Jim is a man of few words)
Asim Ulke Double: It looks like I can count on 6 tricks on defese. I partner has any cards in clubs we might even get + 200. However, it is not in my nature to pass 19 points. Easts 3rd seat opener may be light and we may have a game in NT. I risk a second double. If partner bids 2NT (Lebensol), I bid 3D. Over 3C, I bid 3NT. Over 2S, I am still thinking
Florine Walters: 3D : Three Diamonds, and hope the opponents bid three Hearts so that I can double for penalties.
Bruce Keidan 3D Maybe I'm missing something here. 3D seems automatic. Anything else suggests cutting back on your medications.
Trudy Cohn: I will bid 2NT which at least shows the appropriate point count if not the correct distribution. I feel that I am between a rock and hard place and can only describe the hand to the best of my ability.
Roni Gitchel Atkins: 3D - I would like to make a penalty double, but double is not for penalty. Partner has at most 1H and should have club support.
Arlene Port : Pass 3D looks promising, but I am afraid I won’t get as rich on +110 as I will on +200.
Herb Sachs: 2NT. I hope my partner does not have 4-1-2-6 with no face cards. If he bids three clubs, I have to bid three diamonds. I don’t think I should sell out. It doesn’t sound as if responder has a big hand and if openers was marginal, partner stands to have some points.
PJ Prabhu :3NT. What I think I can make. If Pd has DJ and QJx of C, I have a very good shot at 3NT. On a good day, even less would do
Lou Joseph: Pass. What am I missing, an invitation to go minus 200? How many points are there in this deck? Even if opener is light, what's left for partner?
Internet Post Results:
| This is an incomplete list of national bidders, but will give you some idea of who thought what!! Larry Cohen Pass Bobby Wolff Pass Mark Blumenthal Pass Steve Robinson Pass Howard Weinstein Pass Marshall Miles Pass Allan Graves Pass Martin Cohn 2NT Jeff Rubens 2NT Fred Stewart 2NT David Berkowitz 2NT Marty Bergen 3 D Eric Kokish 3 D Boris Koytchou: 3 D Ira Rubin 3 D Charlea Danan 3 D Karen McCallum: 3 H Gary Powell Double Alan Bell: Double Paul Sugar: 3 NT They never put all the respondents in, but you get the idea. Most passers thought they would be plus 200 on the board.
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