Miron Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 [hv=d=s&v=n&n=saqjxhxxxxdjxxcax&s=skxxhakqdakq10xxcj]133|200|Scoring: IMP[/hv] The bidding goes:1♦ - pass - 1♥ - pass Here is your first problem.1♠ - pass - 4♠ - pass What now?4NT - pass - 5♥ - pass And now?7♥ How to bid this properly after 1♦. Would you open 2♣? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Huh..? Is the problem right? Why didn't responder bid the ♠Q? If he did, 7NT obviously follows. Else 6NT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcphee Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Am I seeing the problem correctly? With 9 1/2 playing tricks and a hand many would open 2C the 1D opening bidding made a NF bid of 1S over 1H? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miron Posted July 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Am I seeing the problem correctly? With 9 1/2 playing tricks and a hand many would open 2C the 1D opening bidding made a NF bid of 1S over 1H? Yup, it was indivual and noone ever passed 1 over 1 over 1 in individual... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Miron Posted July 13, 2006 Author Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Huh..? Is the problem right? Why didn't responder bid the ♠Q? If he did, 7NT obviously follows. Else 6NT. But 7NT is laydown... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Huh..? Is the problem right? Why didn't responder bid the ♠Q? If he did, 7NT obviously follows. Else 6NT. But 7NT is laydown... Well, that's the point. If responder shows the queen, 7 is a no-brainer. If he doesn't show it (misclick, I guess), then one can still try a shot at 7 hoping for a guess of the queen or a major suit squeeze. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenberg Posted July 13, 2006 Report Share Posted July 13, 2006 Hey, we have been told that it's an individual. 5H shows two aces and says nothing about the Q of anything. There is no way to find out about the Q. So if the question is how to bid 7NT confidently in an individual, the answer is you can't. In a more defined partnership I guess you can find out by first setting the trump suit in your 4-3 fit, as happened, and then bid rkc. For too many reasons to write down, I wouldn't think this is a good idea. Assuming that, until you learn of the ace of clubs, you envision playing this in a suit rather than in NT, I think that starting with 2C is right. In an individual, partner's response to this can only be guessed at. Playing controls, as I sometimes do, you find the two aces early on, but I still have no idea how to find out about the Q of spades or how to tell partner that that's all I need. There are some fairly complex methods in Kantar's book on RKC, but I don't know them. If there is a way for either partner to bid 7NT, knowing what he is doing, I don't see it. Fun hand tho. Ken Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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