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- From: taylor@foraker.NoSubdomain.NoDomain (Eric Taylor)
- Newsgroups: rec.games.bridge
- Subject: Re: A Defensive Problem
- Message-ID: <7350@tivoli.UUCP>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 16:47:35 GMT
- References: <1992Dec29.152155.18908@ramon.bgu.ac.il> <1992Dec29.160100.1@aud2.aud.auc.dk> <1hqk5vINNm17@rifraf.atl.ge.com>
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- In article <1hqk5vINNm17@rifraf.atl.ge.com>, nstraguz@atl.ge.com (Nick Straguzzi) writes:
- |> In article <1992Dec29.160100.1@aud2.aud.auc.dk> i13mufel@aud2.aud.auc.dk writes:
- |> >In article <1992Dec29.152155.18908@ramon.bgu.ac.il>, avir@chen.bgu.ac.il (Avi Roy Shapira) writes:
- |> >> Anyhow, playing with a good partner, 2/1 with g[a]dgets I picked up in
- |> >> 4th seat, W v R, the following collection of tickets:
- |> >> JT72, K983, A74, K6
- |> >>
- |> >> After 3 passes, do you open?
- |>
- |> Yes. No choice at matchpoints. What form of scoring is okbridge?
- |>
- |> >> I guess it is close but the possesion of both majors made me open
- |> >> 1D (weird huh?) RHO overcalls 1NT Pard X's LHO XX's. and there it
- |> >> stands.
- |>
- |> Just out of curiosity, how many netters play 1NT in this sequence as
- |> natural? I play it as Unusual, which I believe is the expert
- |> treatment in my neck of the woods. Is it true, as it appears here,
- |> that the Standard Earth expert treatment of a fifth seat 1NT overcall
- |> is natural? Even red vs. white??
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- It seems to me that overcalling 1NT over a 3rd seat opener is fairly
- good since 3rd seat openers will frequently open garbage (myself included),
- and LHO will double with a good 9 points or so. LHO might take this view
- and pass putting pressure on partner to make a reopening double.
-
- What agreements do people have regarding penalizing 1NT overcallers when
- you are a passed hand?
-