Hanoi5 Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Playing SAYC you come accross this beauty: ♠Txx♥QJ♦Txx♣AKQT6 Bidding goes:1♥ 2♣2♦ 2♥4NT 5♣5♦ 6♣6♦ ??? Your partner asked for Key-Cards and the Trump Queen. What is 6♦ and what will you bid? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Playing SAYC you come accross this beauty: ♠Txx♥QJ♦Txx♣AKQT6 Bidding goes:1♥ 2♣2♦ 2♥4NT 5♣5♦ 6♣6♦ ??? Your partner asked for Key-Cards and the Trump Queen. What is 6♦ and what will you bid? I grant this bidding is totally insane2c=insane2h=more insanerest if possible more insane. What happens if the bidding goes 1h=1nt?I bet this is not an issue! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 6♦ is simply his only grand slam try available, it says we have all the keycards and doesn't say a whole lot beyond that. I think the heart jack and running clubs will get me to bid 7♥, obviously he 'should' have a very good hand to jump to blackwood like that instead of investigating at a lower level. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rogerclee Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 I would agree with Jdonn if our clubs were actually running, but we don't seem to have the jack! Gambling on clubs to run to bid a grand seems really wild. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Finch Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Playing SAYC you come accross this beauty: ♠Txx♥QJ♦Txx♣AKQT6 Bidding goes:1♥ 2♣2♦ 2♥4NT 5♣5♦ 6♣6♦ ??? Your partner asked for Key-Cards and the Trump Queen. What is 6♦ and what will you bid? I grant this bidding is totally insane2c=insane2h=more insanerest if possible more insane. What happens if the bidding goes 1h=1nt?I bet this is not an issue! Insane? What on earth is wrong with 2C? I bet if the auction starts 1h - 1NT you have no chance of ever catching up later. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 I don't think pard would make a grand slam try on AxxAKxxxxAxxx alone. Something like AKxAKxxxxAxxx is more likely. But even this is only 12 tricks unless you get lucky or conjure up a squeeze. Thus, in any case 12 tricks seem to be the limit. Of course, in real life pard will actually have something like AxxAKxxxxAxxJ or even... AxAKxxxAQxxxx :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dicklont Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 6♦ asks me to look for something extra.I don't know what to do, when the clubs run it's 7. Is he only looking for ♣Q? OK, I feel lucky, 7♥. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louisg Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Wasn't my 2H bid non-forcing in SAYC? Given that, my hand can hardly be better than it is, and I'm bidding a grand. However, I think 7NT is better than 7H. Imagine the risk in playing 7H on a club lead, when partner has a singleton club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Wasn't my 2H bid non-forcing in SAYC? Given that, my hand can hardly be better than it is, and I'm bidding a grand. However, I think 7NT is better than 7H. Imagine the risk in playing 7H on a club lead, when partner has a singleton club. Why not bid 7♣ and let partner decide? I'm quite sure this should show the club queen, not that you want to play in clubs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louisg Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Wasn't my 2H bid non-forcing in SAYC? Given that, my hand can hardly be better than it is, and I'm bidding a grand. However, I think 7NT is better than 7H. Imagine the risk in playing 7H on a club lead, when partner has a singleton club. Why not bid 7♣ and let partner decide? I'm quite sure this should show the club queen, not that you want to play in clubs.Not bad, but I do think it suggests the possibility of playing clubs. Perhaps xxx Qx xx AKQxxx or so. I'm having second thoughts about driving to 7 anyway. Can't partner have A AKxxxx AKxxx x? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hanoi5 Posted December 5, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Wasn't my 2H bid non-forcing in SAYC? Given that, my hand can hardly be better than it is, and I'm bidding a grand. However, I think 7NT is better than 7H. Imagine the risk in playing 7H on a club lead, when partner has a singleton club. This comment was awesome. If I didn't know any better I'd say you played that tournament, this was partner's hand: ♠Ax♥AKT8xx♦A98x♣J It's true that partner got a little carried away but 7NT is cold on any lead and even 6♥ is down after a club lead. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RichMor Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 Of course, in real life pard will actually have something like AxxAKxxxxAxxJ or even... AxAKxxxAQxxxx :rolleyes:I think partner has the second handAxAKxxxAQxxxx and is looking for either the Diamond K or 6 Club winners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
louisg Posted December 5, 2008 Report Share Posted December 5, 2008 I think partner has the second handAxAKxxxAQxxxx and is looking for either the Diamond K or 6 Club winners.And he wants to be in a grand opposite xxx Qx Kx AKxxxx? And did partner really bid a NF 2H on this hand anyway? Note that if partner has xxx Qx xx AKQJxx opposite your example then the best grand is 7C (see my comment to jdonn above), but I don't think it's worth bidding (and partner might not have bid 2H with this either). My point is that partner needs a much better hand than your example for his bidding, and certainly better than the the hand the OP has told us he actually had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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