Help
Playing a strong NT 2/1 structure, red vs. white:
(P)-1C-(1S)-X
(2S)-P-(P)-X
(P)-2N
What's 2N?
Does it change white vs. red? If playing a weak NT?
Page 1 of 1
Competitive auction
#1
- Lamentable Bunny
-
- Group: Advanced Members
- Posts: 1,505
- Joined: 2008-March-01
- Gender:Male
- Location:Portland, ME
Posted 2012-March-24, 08:22
Bridge Personality: 44 44 43 34
Never tell the same lie twice. - Elim Garek on the real moral of "The boy who cried wolf"
Never tell the same lie twice. - Elim Garek on the real moral of "The boy who cried wolf"
#2
- Group: Full Members
- Posts: 493
- Joined: 2008-July-10
- Location:Los Angeles, CA, USA
Posted 2012-March-24, 08:56
a 3-3-3-4 weak NT. I have no experience playing a weak NT, but would be scrambling I'd think.
BunnyGo, on 2012-March-24, 08:22, said:
Playing a strong NT 2/1 structure, red vs. white:
(P)-1C-(1S)-X
(2S)-P-(P)-X
(P)-2N
What's 2N?
Does it change white vs. red? If playing a weak NT?
(P)-1C-(1S)-X
(2S)-P-(P)-X
(P)-2N
What's 2N?
Does it change white vs. red? If playing a weak NT?
Alle Menschen werden bruder.
Where were you while we were getting high?
Where were you while we were getting high?
#3
- Group: Advanced Members
- Posts: 2,866
- Joined: 2008-July-13
Posted 2012-March-24, 09:13
clubs and secondary diamonds
#4
- Andy Bowles
-
- Group: Advanced Members
- Posts: 11,993
- Joined: 2007-May-03
- Gender:Male
- Location:London, UK
Posted 2012-March-24, 13:57
Either xx34 or xx45. Playing a weak notrump, it will always be the latter.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
#5
- Group: Full Members
- Posts: 636
- Joined: 2011-December-01
- Gender:Not Telling
- Location:UK
-
Interests:Bridge, Poker, but not in conflation.
Statistics, but not massaged by the media.
Posted 2012-March-25, 19:46
Is it not a near minimum hand with good ♠ stops, inviting 3NT? Maybe that hand might pass 2♠X, but red v white?
A perfection of means, and confusion of aims, seems to be our main problem – Albert Einstein
#6
- Group: Advanced Members
- Posts: 4,942
- Joined: 2005-January-28
- Gender:Male
- Location:Cologne, Germany
- Interests:Sleeping, Eating
Posted 2012-March-25, 20:31
Statto, on 2012-March-25, 19:46, said:
Is it not a near minimum hand with good ♠ stops, inviting 3NT? Maybe that hand might pass 2♠X, but red v white?
Even if that were better at this vulnerability, I think for us mere mortals it would make life too complicated to make this sort of thing dependent on vulnerability.
"One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision"
-- Bertrand Russell
-- Bertrand Russell
#7
- Group: Advanced Members
- Posts: 10,728
- Joined: 2003-March-07
- Gender:Male
- Location:Laos
- Interests:Wagner and Bridge
Posted 2012-March-25, 21:02
Statto, on 2012-March-25, 19:46, said:
Is it not a near minimum hand with good ♠ stops, inviting 3NT? Maybe that hand might pass 2♠X, but red v white?
No it is not. It is a scrambling 2NT showing xx34 or xx45 as Andy posted.
"The King of Hearts a broadsword bears, the Queen of Hearts a rose." W. H. Auden.
#8
- Lamentable Bunny
-
- Group: Advanced Members
- Posts: 1,505
- Joined: 2008-March-01
- Gender:Male
- Location:Portland, ME
Posted 2012-March-26, 00:04
So a followup question:
If playing weak NT, does the strong (16ish) NT hand have to bid one of 3NT, cuebid 3♠ for a stopper ask, or pass? (if unable to bid hearts naturally due to lack of hearts)
If playing weak NT, does the strong (16ish) NT hand have to bid one of 3NT, cuebid 3♠ for a stopper ask, or pass? (if unable to bid hearts naturally due to lack of hearts)
Bridge Personality: 44 44 43 34
Never tell the same lie twice. - Elim Garek on the real moral of "The boy who cried wolf"
Never tell the same lie twice. - Elim Garek on the real moral of "The boy who cried wolf"
#9
- Group: Advanced Members
- Posts: 4,942
- Joined: 2005-January-28
- Gender:Male
- Location:Cologne, Germany
- Interests:Sleeping, Eating
Posted 2012-March-26, 00:21
BunnyGo, on 2012-March-26, 00:04, said:
So a followup question:
If playing weak NT, does the strong (16ish) NT hand have to bid one of 3NT, cuebid 3♠ for a stopper ask, or pass? (if unable to bid hearts naturally due to lack of hearts)
If playing weak NT, does the strong (16ish) NT hand have to bid one of 3NT, cuebid 3♠ for a stopper ask, or pass? (if unable to bid hearts naturally due to lack of hearts)
Eh, I don't play weak NT but I think you double on the 2nd round.
"One of the painful things about our time is that those who feel certainty are stupid, and those with any imagination and understanding are filled with doubt and indecision"
-- Bertrand Russell
-- Bertrand Russell
Page 1 of 1