pclayton Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 So yesterday you are playing with Csaba and get a headache after about 10 hands (no offense) so you call 'last hand'. Naturally you are dealt: ♠x ♥void ♦AKQTTxxxxx ♣Ax I have played a LOT of bridge in my life, but this is only the 2nd time I've been dealt a 10 bagger (and I'm not counting goulash). Both times it was in diamonds. Got a strategy here, genius? Sorry, you took Schenken 2♦ and 4N (specific aces) off the card at the last minute just before the session. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtK78 Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 Strategy? I open 6♦. So much for strategy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echognome Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 I'd much rather hold two ♦7s than Ts. Presuming we have 150 honors, then I will just open 6♦. We may get the wrong lead, etc etc. I think investigation on this hand will be difficult, even more so when we aren't playing with a regular partner, and even more so when we have a headache and want to log off. Maybe I can claim at trick 1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 Well, it is the last hand, so nobody will be laughing at you for the rest of the session... so maybe do what a friend of mine did to me during a midnight speedball swiss many years ago, when drinking at the table during the game was completely normal, if not mandatory. He held void void Kxx AKQJxxxxxx dealer red v red and passed. His LHO opened 2♠ and his partner, a much younger, foolish and slightly inebriated version of me, overcalled 2N. It went 4♠ 7♣ P P x P P to me I had been worried that my hand wasn't good enough to preempt over 2♠ opposite a passed partner so had made my own 'tactical' call: I held, for my 2N, J9x AQxxxxxx x x Tempted tho I was, to run, I left 7♣ x'd in. The opps got confused, as who wouldn't, and allowed us out for only -2. I'm only slightly embarrassed to say that we won a lot of imps on the board for reasons that are now hazy in my mind. So the tactic of passing solid 10 card suits has been empirically proven, so far, to be a good one. Admittedly my sample size is small. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcurt Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 Admittedly my sample size is small. rofl Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 I stiill to this day open 4NT specific ace blackwood, and I still like it. Anyway I guess I'll open 6♦, hopefully if they bid a major it comes on my right so I can either pass or double depending which one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo81 Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 The one time I had a 10-bagger my hand was AKxxxxxxxx --- Kxx ---. I passed in 1st chair, white/red, and it went (1♣)-2♦-(2♥) back to me. I bid 6♠, LHO tanked and took a phantom (!?!) sacrifice in 7♣x -2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 6♦ seems like a good opener to me. Either that or 2♣. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 Playing with Csaba I'd open this 6D. No offense. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
matmat Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 if i had said that the previous hand was last, I get up and leave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted April 24, 2008 Report Share Posted April 24, 2008 Playing with Csaba I'd open this 6D. No offense. :P Looks more like no defence to me B) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
andy_h Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 mm nice hand! I'll give 6D a shot. 2nd route is open 4D->5D->6D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted April 25, 2008 Author Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 I opened it 6♦. I thought about something funny like pass or 1♦, but it was the last hand and I didnt feel like being cute. Dummy flopped a very nice AQxx Qxxxx x xxx. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilkaz Posted April 25, 2008 Report Share Posted April 25, 2008 I also voted and would open 6♦ and for all we know it is needed to preempt the opps out of 6M ! .. neilkaz .. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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