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Echognome, on Feb 12 2008, 10:07 AM, said:
Ok, so I'm just gonna say what happened at the table and only make a half-hearted attempt at justifying it. I agree with many posters that there are a variety of actions, all of which could work out or not. So I took an action that no one has even considered... I passed. So let me give my quick two cents on this.
Yes we have a great hand. Yes it's possible that pass can work out horribly. But we have an opening bid on our right, so it's entirely possible that the hand isn't ours. Pass gives up competing for the part-score admittedly and we do have two suits outside of clubs that we'd like to compete in. Heck, we even have a decent dummy for clubs. So the idea I had was if it went (1C) - P - (1H) - P; (2H) - ? Now I would double back in (not as ideal a hand as is typically shown, but certainly describes it decently).
Anyway, what actually happened was it went: (1C) - P - (1NT) - AP. And as the play unfolded, declarer took a line of play that didn't expect me to have an 18 count and pass throughout! (I was lucky in a sense that the actual declarer would notice my high card points.)
I'm not advocating that pass is the best bid (I think personally the doublers have convinced me), but I think it's interesting that no one has even considered it.
Yes we have a great hand. Yes it's possible that pass can work out horribly. But we have an opening bid on our right, so it's entirely possible that the hand isn't ours. Pass gives up competing for the part-score admittedly and we do have two suits outside of clubs that we'd like to compete in. Heck, we even have a decent dummy for clubs. So the idea I had was if it went (1C) - P - (1H) - P; (2H) - ? Now I would double back in (not as ideal a hand as is typically shown, but certainly describes it decently).
Anyway, what actually happened was it went: (1C) - P - (1NT) - AP. And as the play unfolded, declarer took a line of play that didn't expect me to have an 18 count and pass throughout! (I was lucky in a sense that the actual declarer would notice my high card points.)
I'm not advocating that pass is the best bid (I think personally the doublers have convinced me), but I think it's interesting that no one has even considered it.
I have sympathy for a pass if the opps are vul, especially at MPs.
