Misleading Partner - Common Mistakes in Bridge with Tina McVeigh
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- Опубликовано: 6 окт 2024
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Is it always partners’ fault when they make the wrong opening lead? How can you help?
Your right-hand opponent opens 1♦. What is your bid?
It is always a good idea to enter the auction after an opponent has bid. Giving your opponents an easy uninterrupted ride is often the key to a bad
result.
You have nearly an opening hand here. Is there any way that you can tell
your partner this?
Mistake: Overcalling with a bad suit.
If you bid 1♥, you promise a 5-card suit. You don’t promise a bad suit
however. Your high card points should be in the heart suit. A good rule of
thumb is to have two of the top four honours in the suit. If you are
undecided as to whether to overcall, ask yourself if you want partner to lead your suit.
If you bid 1♥, partner will lead hearts instead of the natural lead of a club.
The heart lead is disastrous for the defence. Declarer can knock out the ♦A
while still having control of all the other suits. Declarer will make eleven
tricks on a heart lead but only eight on a club lead. Worse still, partner will
be very unhappy with your overcall and you won’t win the postmortem.
This is not a good hand to double with either. Your major suits are too weak.
Just bide your time. Partner may yet surprise you with a bid which you can
raise.
Principle: An overcall promises a good suit, not a good hand
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Overcall promises good suit opening promises good hand. Fantastic video
These videos are the most useful and precise online
Thank you, - a trap I have walked into and should now be far more aware of.
Good discipline - very interesting thank you
Could you have played JC one round earlier to avoid any risk of blocking the suit?
Great lesson as usual Tina
I agree that this is a bad overcall, because it invites your partner to do the wrong thing. I take issue with your aphorism. An overcall does not deny a good hand. An overcall shows a good suit or a good hand. If South's hand were better in high cards, say 15 points or so, there is a chance to make a game in hearts if North can support them. And if West declares notrump, a heart lead from king and one might work out, because South would have enough entries to establish the suit. Bad overcalls are at the top of my list of actions that are radioactive. My mentor at bridge cost us an Open Pairs by making a bad overcall vul vs not and going for 1100.
If you took the club trick with the jack instead of the king you would have made an extra trick.
Not seeing that. Partner led clubs, you have KJx and see the ace. My working assumption is partner most likely has the Q. If I play the J as the cards are I make the trick, but after clearing out the A, partner can not overtake my K and so take advantage of their long suit. Looks to me that it would cost you.