Re: Open weak 2S?

DavJFlower wrote
>>My partner and I had a slight disagreement as to the merits of an
>>opening 2S with the following hand in an IMP pairs event at the Fall
>>Nationals today. You are vulnerable vs not, in first seat.
>>
>>KQ1092
>>K62
>>98
>>974
>>
>>Do you consider this a good 2S bid? Does your estimated running score
>>have any bearing on whether you open 2S or not?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>
>>Peter.
>>New York, NY.
>>
>
>This is dudious in 3rd seat at favourable vuolnerability; first seat at
>favourable vulnerability it is just plain wrong:
>
>- Partner may be the one who is preempted
>- You do not have the 6th spade that partner is entitled to expect
>- Your hearts are far better than partner would ever expect
>
>I suppose partner held:
>
>A x
>A x x x x x 3
>A x x x
>void
>
>and you ended up in the wrong slam

  The problem with this approach is that if you take it to its extreme
you would *never* pre-empt.  Whatever the standard of your pre-empts you
can always catch partner with the wrong hand.

  Pre-empts are a gamble of loss v gain.  Much of the time it is a
question of the players' temperaments where they are on the spectrum.

  For example, what would you open 1st in hand at Green [nv v v] with

   xxx
   QJT9
   xx
   xxxx         ?

  Playing with Ron Higgins I would open 2H, as would he.  Of course it
is a gamble, but it is our style, and we allow for partner to do so.
playing with Peter Clinch - as I did in New Orleans - I would need
another small heart.

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