Overcall or double?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 ต.ค. 2024
- Play this bridge hand at Sky Bridge Club: skybridgeclub....
Right away we're faced with an important decision. After East opens 1♣, we have to decide whether to overcall or double.
Both bids accurately describe our hand. How can we decide the best thing to do?
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Overcall in hearts is the best bid for this hand later on I double to show an opening hand I dont bid diamonds we may have a fit in spades which we will never find !! In this hand will lead us to a spade contract making 140/170 better than defending 3 clubs !! The hand was defended purely as partner could easily return a heart when in with the ace of clubs !!!
I agree with 1H, but when 2C comes around surely double says I got a good hand, please bid in order, 2H with 3 small or 2 to K as we have AQJ, 2 S with 4+, 2D with 4+, pass with 5+ clubs. But the score says NS +50 = 100%? A glitch in the program? Surely some one may double. On a fairly automatic KS lead followed by AH, then QH, KH ruffed, small S to the AS then cash JH. That is 5 tricks with AC to come = 100 + 200 + 200 = 500.
I like a one heart overcall -> gets a lead suggestion to partner and directly competes, and I also like the t/o double of 2 clubs. These two bids say to partner “I have a takeout double with 5 hearts.” Especially in the modern style players do like to make a takeout double with 4-4/4-5/5-4 in the majors, I think partner can reasonably assume your shape of 3-5-1-4 for this method of bidding.
3-5-2-3 would be the most common, I suppose.
I was taught that leading A from AK while defending against a suit contract is an excellent lead.
I would think that an initial double is most likely to get a spade response (as it would in this case) and we are happy to play in spades.
From E-W point of view you can see the appeal of a weak 1NT on this deal.
After 1H overcall and auction is 2C to me, double allows partner to find the spade suit. Given hand makes 4S with careful play
On a Club lead, which will be hard to avoid, North South can make 11 tricks in Spades on a Dummy reversal with careful play:
Win Club Ace; then win Heart Ace and lead Heart Queen.
If West covers: ruff low; return with a low Spade to Ace; ruff a low Heart with the Spade Jack; and lead a low Spade to the King noting the 2-2 break; and claim after pitching two diamonds from North on the established Hearts.
If West ducks (best): discard a Diamond; ruff a heart low (protects against the 3-1 Spade break); lead low Spade to Ace; ruff a Heart with the Jack; lead low Spade to the King noting the 2-2 break; pitch a second Diamond from North on the established fifth Heart and claim upon conceding North's remaining Diamond.
I see this as missing a 2 or 3 spade contract. With luck if the diamonds are not led making an overtrick. Partners hand is only good in spades and the double may encourage a bid. Am I far to eager based on the low percentage 2-2 spade split. How often is 3 spades made?
2-2 split is actually the highest probable percentage. Followed shortly by 1-3.
They've missed a 4S contract by not doubleing the 1C
@@drosophilamelanogaster3957 Careful play makes 11 tricks, on a dummy reversal, if East-West open with a Club lead (which is hard to avoid on this auction).
As you have a singleton, I would lead A Spades hoping either side had a singleton also
When you double and then bid another suit, aren't you showing a stronger hand? 17+ points?
-unless your partner bids 1NT , after that a new suit is to play , because partner already promisses 9-11
THANK YOU BOTH :)
Good pace of lesson
In a million years, I would never bid 2D as my second bid with 4 pathetic cards in that suit. I would X to ask my partner to bid any other suit at the 2-level if the double came back to him. Partner might even bid 2H with a doubleton, which is not too ugly at the 2-level, and it still forces the opponents to the 3-level in Clubs.
At 3:45 you give a top limit for the overcall, but not the minimum promised hcps, which your partner would find more useful.
if overcall 1H surely it does not indicate that we have a strong hand 16/17 points as you said? I thought overcalls were usually between 6.10
What about a cue bid
And I immediately saw AK=7 and AQJ=7. Total 14. Horses for courses...
Cud n bid 1 spade
I think