Talk:Preempt

Captain of the Hand

Since in fourth seat, you can hold your loses to zero with a pass, there's no real need to open a regular preempt. There are at least two other advantages to opening a minimum opening hand as a preempt in fourth seat. By that I mean a hand and suit which qualifies as a preempt in any seat, but where the hand is too strong to preempt in the first three seats.

First, if you and partner agree that the hand is going to be no stronger than a minimum opener, then responder knows the HCP range, as well as the normal preempt information about your hand, immediately. Any 1-level opener in Standard or 2/1 can be from a minimum (say 10 HCP if you open on "Rule of 20) to 20 or 21 HCP, maybe even an unbalanced 22. This is true even after three passes. The "limited" nature of the bid brings out the second advantage.

Second, you elect partner "Captain of the Hand", or to put it another way partner is in charge of the auction. This would work in a similar way to the 1NT opener's partner running that auction.

Simply "barricading" the opponents, in my opinion, runs a distant third to these other two advantages.

If anyone wish to continue this discussion I can be reached at [email protected]

BCNU Spencer Burgess 72.95.251.21 (talk) 04:13, 7 May 2008 (UTC)

Advice

I have a question about preemptive bidding in contract bridge. If an opponent opens 1 heart and I have a preemptive bid in diamonds - do I bid 3 diamonds or 4 diamonds. Also what would be a good souce for me to look up this answer> email = cmgrew611-AT-aol.com

Note that you are unlikely to find a satisfactory response here. Wikipedia talk pages are for discussing the Wikipedia article itself, not merely the subject of the article alone. -- intgr 08:26, 19 December 2006 (UTC)

I ammended the article to (at least partially) answer the question. Duja► 09:14, 19 December 2006 (UTC)