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What should I Bid? - Best enquiry for June 2005 The best submission for the month of June was made by Margaret Miller. Hand: At all vulnerable and dealer West.
Comments: The question
here is whether I should pass, double or bid 5 And Peter’s Response: Hi Margaret, A critical matter here is that when you bid 4 Thus partner will not have acted with a variety of hands. Accordingly,
Pass here ought to imply you raised on a trump oriented hand (which you do
not have). You have a limit raise and took the push as you ought. The
choice is therefore to Double or bid on. As usual your holding in the
opponents' suit is the key to this. Bidding on with two cards in their
suit when there is no reason to believe partner has one or fewer is very
poor. There is no good reason to assume they have more than nine trumps
here although ten wouldn't surprise. Thus, Double is the answer and when
they score 590 or 690, bad luck. More likely you'll get 300, and on a good
day your side couldn't make 4 Regards |