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Graeme MacKay
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Open 1D, 1S, or 1NT? - 2006/04/15 01:44 MPs, both vul. You are playing 2/one GF, 15-17 NT. In third seat you hear 2 passes & hold

AKQT T873 KQT T8

You have no particular agreements about third seat openers. Please rate the folowin bids & explain your reasonin:
(a) 1D (b) 1S (c) 1NT (d) other.

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re:Open 1D, 1S, or 1NT? - 2006/04/16 00:01 I disagree; I think the lead directional value in diamonds is actually better than spades. The most likely denomination to be inaudibly defending is 3NT, & barring
SJxxx on the right, a diamond lead is likely to serve better than a spade.

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Niele
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re:Open 1D, 1S, or 1NT? - 2006/04/17 14:01 Id open 1D. There's no strongly need to open 1S since I does not wanna pre-empt the heart suit.

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re:Open 1D, 1S, or 1NT? - 2006/04/18 15:39 1s = 8
1n = 10

This is a very good 14 counter with excellent intermediates four tens & two eights so it can easily be upgraded to 15 to open 1nt, beside which 1nt is more preemptive than 1d or 1s in case it's their hand.
1s is steadily interesting because of lead directing values.
1d in my opinion will not be a good call.

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re:Open 1D, 1S, or 1NT? - 2006/04/19 07:01 I agree. It looks like a maximum 12-14 to me. No 5-card suite, short honours in diamonds. My suggested reason for opening 1NT (not my first chose) is whether I do not trust partner's declarer play.

You could have AQ10x KQ10x K10x 10x which to me is a better hand with the same honours (but I'd open that eityher 1D or possibly 1H).

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re:Open 1D, 1S, or 1NT? - 2006/04/19 10:04 1D. For 3 reasons: Despite its easily balanced pattern, this hand looks like a suite bid - values in 2 suits. Secondly, with a well opener when game is still possible opposite many subsequently passed hands, I does not like to distort suit lengths. Third, should the hand belong to the opponents after all (no certainty yet though I suspect it's ours) the lead directional value in diamonds is almost also good as spades.
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re:Open 1D, 1S, or 1NT? - 2006/04/19 17:05 This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

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re:Open 1D, 1S, or 1NT? - 2006/04/20 23:03 1D is the system bid. I see no reason not to open it.
I'd open 1S without the DQ: Im too strong to open a 4-card spade suite & it may miss a heart part-score.
1NT is a distortion. I will open 1NT if partner were a lot weaker than I, but I don't think it's the winning Matchpoint action.

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re:Open 1D, 1S, or 1NT? - 2009/09/20 09:09 1NT = 10, any other bid =0.
This really is trivial, with a balanced hand within your 1NT range, open 1NT and you avoid all rebid problems.

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