kenrexford Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 ♠Qx ♥AK98x ♦x ♣AJ108x Partner opens 1♠, red on red. RHO overcalls 3♦. Your bid of 3♥ is passed to partner, who bids 4♥. If you make a call other than pass or 4NT, what does this mean/show/ask? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jlall Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I'd pass, partner is limited by his failure to bid 4D but slam could still be cold pretty easily. The 5 level could also be too high, especially with a bad trump split. Just seems like I have too many holes to fill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrexford Posted March 25, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I'd pass, partner is limited by his failure to bid 4D but slam could still be cold pretty easily. The 5 level could also be too high, especially with a bad trump split. Just seems like I have too many holes to fill. Good answer. Partner actually held ♠xxxxx ♥Qxxx ♦AKx ♣Q. This is a tad weak, but the partnership does allow for quite aggressive openings. In practice, I did not pass and regret that decision. However, it occurred to me at the time that perhaps 4♠ is the best approach if I do move on. 4NT by me is doomed to a 5♥ (one or three) reply, an expected call that helps me not at all. 4♠ shows what might be a key card for partner and allows me to answer 5♣ to 4NT, a much better auction. As it is, partner will bid 5♥, and hopefully I'll get a diamond lead and make just five. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe de Balliol Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 ♠Qx ♥AK98x ♦x ♣AJ108x Partner opens 1♠, red on red. RHO overcalls 3♦. Your bid of 3♥ is passed to partner, who bids 4♥. If you make a call other than pass or 4NT, what does this mean/show/ask? I have a blanket agreement that 5M asks for a control in their suit, which is annoying here as I quite want to bid it to ask partner to bid slam. If I bid 5♦ partner won't really know what to do. I could bid 5♣ but then when I hear 5♦ opposite I don't really know whether I want to be in slam. Might be a time to wheel out the Old Black and bid slam iff partner has the missing aces. I know that's not what it was designed for but it's a rough guide... J PS Just saw the hand. In my book, that isn't an opening bid :) Oh well, -100 for me... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I might also pass, but if I'd make a slam try it would probably be 5C. This focusses on the club suit and implies the lack of a spade control. 5H would indeed ask for a diamond control and 5D would be a undescriptive slam-try with a diamond control. I don't consider partner's hand an opening hand. I open fairly light and yesterday I did open a 10-count with that shape but it had good suits and nice spots (AKxxx Q10x J10xx x). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 just pass, we are missing too much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dake50 Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 P hoping partner doesn't have the magic 14 pointer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I did not pass and regret that decision. What? Didn't you bid 6 and opps let it through by leading a diamond? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Jlall Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I did not pass and regret that decision. What? Didn't you bid 6 and opps let it through by leading a diamond? :) Still a lot of work to do even if that happened. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 rkc...pard cannot have less than 14 hcp for an opening bid in first seat right? :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jikl Posted March 25, 2007 Report Share Posted March 25, 2007 I would pass, ESPECIALLY if I knew partner opened that crap. Sean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codo Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 My pds don´t open these silly hand, so I bid 5 Club. Normally I bid on when a perefct minimum is enough for a slam, but after the interference we are under pressure so I give it one more try even if he needs a little extra. But he had not bid 4 Diamond with AKxxx, Qxx,xx,Kx.... If I want to explore slam, I very much prefer 5 Club as a cuebid, denying anything useful in Spades. With a funny pd who opens this sort of sh.., I surely pass 4 Heart. And if we write down 4 Heart + 3 because this time he holds AKxxxx,Qxx,Axx,x I tell him that his opening style preempts our slam bidding. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrexford Posted March 26, 2007 Author Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 I did not pass and regret that decision. What? Didn't you bid 6 and opps let it through by leading a diamond? :) We ended up in six, and a diamond lead came (the Jack!). However, hearts were strangely 3-1 with RHO having the third heart. Clubs were 6-1. I gave it a go, winning the diamond, playing two trumps (ending in dummy), cashed a second high diamond for the spade ditch. When diamonds turned out to be split 7-2, it seemed that I now needed RHO to hold specifically ♠K ♥xxx ♦Qxxxxxx ♣K9. When RHO played a small club under the Queen, I semi-safety ducked and got spade-spade for down one (no club ruff/trump promo for down two). This line also offered a chance of simply Kx to the right, because LHO had ditched a club on the second heart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted March 26, 2007 Report Share Posted March 26, 2007 I'm certain we've all been in much worse slams before :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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