dburn Posted September 30, 2008 Report Share Posted September 30, 2008 I win the opening lead and duck a spade. My plan is to revoke on the second round of hearts, which should lead to down at least four. With luck, this will mean that the person who bid 3♦ at his second turn will never play with me again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrexford Posted September 30, 2008 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2008 I win the opening lead and duck a spade. My plan is to revoke on the second round of hearts, which should lead to down at least four. With luck, this will mean that the person who bid 3♦ at his second turn will never play with me again. That would be you, if you declare. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kenrexford Posted October 1, 2008 Author Report Share Posted October 1, 2008 It seemed to me that an obvious, but extremely unlikely, line was to play RHO for the A-K in clubs (or a mistake) and four spades. Winning the diamond Ace, then hooking hearts, to lead a diamond up, winning the spade return in hand to cash out hearts before entry to dummy to cash the established diamond. However, that seems unlikely to succeed and in fact did fail. In the post-mortem, I contemplated a duck of the diamond lead, which seems to give me more transportation options if diamonds are not continued, which might help with a diamond-club, diamond-spade, or double squeeze. Of course, the opponents could then just continue diamonds. Any thoughts on this? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 sorry about this necro but this thread is just so awesome 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 sorry about this necro but this thread is just so awesome I usually hate when people do that. But this is probably my all time favorite necro... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the hog Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 I'm not sure what partner will do after 4♣, because in practice partner was bidding strangely and continued that practice. My bid happened to be 3♦, for various reasons. I need the diamond and spade Aces for slam to be good, and nothing more. So, I decided that 4♣ was insufficient, even with 4♦ LTTC available. Plus, a jump shift into diamonds had the additional advantage of perhaps dissuading a diamond lead, where any two missing Aces might work. The end auction was: 1♥-1♠3♦-3NT4♠-4NT6♥(two with the Queen and a void)-P The final pass was really weird. I felt that I needed to show the void because I would have held ♠KQJx ♥AKQxxx ♦Kx ♣x or something similar. Walsh Fragments do not seem to be used after a heart opening. So, to the play problem. Partner had been bidding very strangely. He bid 1♠ because he decided that 3NT was probably going to be the right final contract. He bid 3NT for the same reason. He converted 4♠ to 4NT because he felt that this was natural, which seems odd. In any event, the diamond King hits the table as the lead, after many questions about whether 3♦ was a natural bid and much in the way of fussing over the lead by LHO. You see: Dealer: South Vul: N/S Scoring: MP ♠ Axx ♥ xx ♦ AJxx ♣ QJ10x ♠ KQxxx ♥ AKJxxx ♦ xx ♣ [space] ♦King lead. How to play this mess to the bitter end is the next question. My heavens, both North and South are total nutters and deserve each other. Why post a question about bidding when the "bidding" resembles nothing known to man?I actually disagree with all the previous posters. I would have opened 1C, my best suit, and splintered in Hearts over the obvious 1S response Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguahombre Posted November 10, 2009 Report Share Posted November 10, 2009 It happened again...the Hog's irony and sarcasm express my feelings much better than I ever could. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 My opponent opened 1♣ on AQJxxxx AKxxx x - yesterday and it made me think of this thread :) (1♣=0+ nf, 1♦=4+, 1♥/♠=5+, 2♣=GF) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 I had forgotten all about this thread. I did't remember any of the posts and had a good laugh reading it. Could you please necro this again in about 3 years? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
han Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 the sarcasm examples in the urban dictionary are pretty good as well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted February 16, 2012 Report Share Posted February 16, 2012 The only comment I remembered abotut this thread was dburn´s wich is odd. I think I just skipped whatever posts about bidding after reading OP. Glad I had another oportunity now because I had to go to toilet to avoid peeing in my pants. thx Csaba. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gwnn Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 I had forgotten all about this thread. I did't remember any of the posts and had a good laugh reading it. Could you please necro this again in about 3 years?Sure, no problem. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted November 22, 2014 Report Share Posted November 22, 2014 where's that han-derbidder? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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