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 Beginner 5 - doubles and overcalls by Pedro

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We will test some basic situations of competitive bidding.

Question 1

  Your Hand
♠ 8 6 5 4 3
♥ Q 6 5
♦ K 8 6 5
♣ A 		 
Q: 1 - Opponents started the auction in 1♥. What should we bid ?
SouthWestNorthEast
---1♥
?


 Your choice:
A: Pass - Near the minimum range of a 1- level overcall (8-16) and with a terrible suit quality, it's better to pass.

Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 2

  Your Hand
♠ A K J 5 4 3
♥ 5 4
♦ A Q 8 6
♣ 5 		 
Q: 2 - Opponents started the auction in 1♥. What should we bid ?
SouthWestNorthEast
---1♥
?


 Your choice:
A: 1♠- Here we have a good spade overcall.

2 Spades isn't correct, it doesn't matter the fact we have a good game or an extra spade.

The double is also incorrect we don't want partner to pick a suit, we want to announce our spades !



Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 3

  Your Hand
♠ A K J 5
♥ 5 4
♦ A Q 8 6
♣ Q 8 5 		 
Q: 3 - Opponents started the auction in 1♥. What should we bid ?
SouthWestNorthEast
---1♥
?


 Your choice:
A: Double - We don't have a 5- card suit to overcall and despite the fact we are balanced and between the 15-17 point range we don't have a stopper in hearts so we can't bid 1 No Trump.

With our double we ask partner to pick his longest suit with exception of hearts.

Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 4

  Your Hand
♠ K J 5
♥ 8 6 4
♦ A 9 7 6
♣ Q J 4 		 
Q: 4 - Opponents started the auction in 1♦ and our partner doubled. How should we answer ?
SouthWestNorthEast
-1♦DoublePass
?


 Your choice:
A: 2NT - We have a balanced hand and a stopper in the opponents suit,so, a No Trump bid it will be correct.

But we need to inform partner of our point range, bidding just 1NT would mean 8-10 points and 3NT 13-15, so with 11 points 2NT is the most precise bid.

Your result so far:
Open Question

Question 5

  Your Hand
♠ K J 5 3
♥ A 6 4
♦ J 9 7 6
♣ J 4 		 
Q: 5 - Opponents started the auction in 1♦. What should we bid ?
SouthWestNorthEast
-1♦DoublePass
?


 Your choice:
A: 2♠ - We want to pick spades as our chosen suit, but because we have more than 7 points we will give a jump for partner to understand we have some extra points (8-11).

Your result so far:
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