Thursday, November 09, 2006 11:40 PM
Hand Evaluation – Partnership Bridge ( captaincy )
PITBULLS:
One
of the main aspects of partnership Bridge
is that once you have described your hand to
partner , you transfer the decision over to her side. If you
do not , you are in effect bidding your hand again so single handedly making the decision for the partnership. If you have a big
hand in HCP’s , it is the little hand that must
have the final say . Partner knows
more about your hand than you do
of hers , once you have indicated your strength. The little hand is the great unknown as
yours has already been described.
This is the captaincy part of partnership Bridge.
Also
if you have a distributional hand & the vulnerability is right
, do you bid your hand again ?. If you have described your hand , partner
is aware of your distribution & partner is aware of the vulnerability, so you do not have to make the decision for the
partnership. You have ♠AK109xx ♥x ♦x ♣ KQJxx , the vul opponents open 1♦ so you overcall 1♠ which gets doubled.
Partner passes & RHO bids 2♥. You now make the
excellent descriptive bid of 4♣
& they bid 4♥ so around to you again. You have described your hand perfectly to partner . The vulnerability is right
so should you sacrifice in 4♠
? No , no & no as partner has 5 of their trump so 4♥ goes at least 3 down
vul. If you do bid 4♠ , they now bid & make their cold 5♦ !! Just an 18 IMP swing ! Change your KQ of clubs to the Ace
, then you are allowed to bid your
hand again with a D.S.I.P. double.
D.S.I.P. competitive doubles are the only way
a good partnership is allowed to
bid their hand again. Anything
else is master minding. Always ask
yourself , has partner heard me describe my hand. If you are unable
to describe your hand to partner , by all means bid
again.
My
hand was ♠Q ♥109876 ♦xxx ♣xxxx so I would have
taken the non vul save in 5♣ which goes for
–100 but I figured we could beat 4♥. If partner does
make a D.S.I.P. double & they leave it in , bonus.
However , they may pull to 5♦ which makes , so
a D.S.I.P. double is iffy . Bidding your
hand again with a D.S.I.P. double
is a luxury
that comes with playing that particular tool.
Without that particular understanding , bidding your
hand again is single handed nonsense
& insults partner. Sometimes
it takes guts to pass nice distributional hands , but if you trust your partner
……..
Do
not bid partners hand for her , bid your own hand. You have ♠10xx ♥xx ♦KJx ♣KQxxx everybody nv partner opens 1♠.
Your RHO bids 4♥ so you double which in your methods just shows cards. Partner bids 5♥ so now what ? You have exactly what partner expects you to have for
your initial double.
You do not rebid the same values you have already shown so you bid 5♠
which makes for +450. Jumping to 6♠ is bidding partners hand for her . Bid your own hand once , do
not repeat yourself !!