🚀 go-pugleaf

desj@ccr-p.ida.org (David desJardins) wrote:

>Verne L Smith <smitty@mdc.net> writes:
>> When opponents double your partner's weak 2 bid for take-out, you
>> often have a hand worth raising partner.  On the way to a raise,
why
>> not help partner to find the best opening lead  -- in case you end
up
>> defending?

>Because if the opponents have good agreements, you are helping them a
>lot more by giving them extra bidding room (instead of raising
>immediately) than you are gaining by indicating the lead. 

If the bidding starts 2 H   by partner, double  and I hold:

S:  xx    H: xxx   D xxxx  C:  AQxx, equal vulnerability, I don't
expect to be able to outbid the opponents at a safe level.  Raising
partner immediately won't shut them out.  But, I would like a club
lead against spades.  So I would bid 2NT as a transfer to clubs.  Is
this in any way unethical as long as it is alerted and properly
explained?

-- Verne

>Of course, if
>you assume that your opponents won't have prepared defenses against
your
>unusual transfer auctions and so won't make good use of that bidding
>room, you may expect to gain.  I'm not sure that is something I would
be
>proud of.

>There's a reason the ACBL only allows such methods in long matches at
>high-level competition, where the opponents have the time and
>inclination to prepare.

>                                        David desJardins
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