pclayton Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 Red on white, IMPs ♠3 ♥KQT9832 ♦4♣KJT4 2♠ - pass - 4♠ - ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtK78 Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 5♥. I hope partner can take a joke. Really, though, 5♥ will be making opposite slightly more than 2 aces. If it does go down 500, the opps probably make 4♠, so the loss is not great. I can't afford to pass here and find out later that both sides make game in their long suits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Halo Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 Five hearts. I picture the opponents with maybe seven/eight spade tricks and a some diamonds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 I hate to bid 5♥, but I hate to pass and be stolen blind even more. Sigh... 5♥. Sadly, if partner has the two aces I need to make, odds are he will bid 6♥ and I end up going down. Such is the risk we take. A question is would 4NT and then pull even 5♣to 5♥ be less encouraging than a direct 5♥? I think it should be, so maybe that would be better approach. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 Is there really anyone who doesn't bid 5♥ with this? Partner really has to rein himself in on this auction... we are under enormous pressure, so he needs one heck of a hand to bump us.... admittedly, he may have a heck of a hand and still not have enough... and of course there is the trifling problem that it may be rho who has the heck of a hand... 1100 is not out of the question, but only a mouse would pass. Yes, we have two ways to lose by bidding, and one of them could be a LARGE number of imps, but we have several ways to win as well, and some of those are at least as large (double game swing, anyone?) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 Is there really anyone who doesn't bid 5♥ with this? No, but there are plenty of people who forget what they themselves would bid 5♥ with when they raise to 6♥ from the other side on inadequate hands. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted May 14, 2008 Author Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 5♥. I hope partner can take a joke. Really, though, 5♥ will be making opposite slightly more than 2 aces. If it does go down 500, the opps probably make 4♠, so the loss is not great. I can't afford to pass here and find out later that both sides make game in their long suits. Me :blink: That's why I polled it because I wasn't sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Apollo81 Posted May 14, 2008 Report Share Posted May 14, 2008 5♥ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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