H_KARLUK Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 [hv=d=e&v=e&s=saqt3h98dqj5ca642]133|100|Scoring: IMP[/hv]p 1♣ P 1♥ p 1♠ p 2♦p 2NT P 4NT P ? 2♦ *FSF Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcvetkov Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 Pass I think we dont have many obvious source of tricks and it will be strugle to make 12 tricks, unless partner has 19 points which I doubt it. With stronger spots in clubs or 5 card suit maybe its closer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dake50 Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 Partner invites slam. What is wrong with my hand? Have minimum as shown. Have tops in suits I bid. Go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 Partner invites slam. What is wrong with my hand? Have minimum as shown. Have tops in suits I bid. Go. You never showed a minimum, you hold a minimum, and the hand is completely unexciting. I think this is a very easy pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dcvetkov Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 Partner invites slam. What is wrong with my hand? Have minimum as shown. Have tops in suits I bid. Go. You never showed a minimum, you hold a minimum, and the hand is completely unexciting. I think this is a very easy pass. I knew that Josh has a better way of putting it together with less words then me;) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 Partner invites slam. What is wrong with my hand? Have minimum as shown. Have tops in suits I bid. Go. You never showed a minimum, you hold a minimum, and the hand is completely unexciting. I think this is a very easy pass. I knew that Josh has a better way of putting it together with less words then me;) I've been working on brevity. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H_KARLUK Posted December 31, 2008 Author Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 [hv=d=e&v=e&n=sk72hkqt5dak9ck93&w=s84ha7432d74cj875&e=sj965hj6dt8632cqt&s=saqt3h98dqj5ca642]399|300|Scoring: IMP[/hv] Not intervened1♣ 1♥1♠ 2♦2NT 4NTAll Pass Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 Partner invites slam. What is wrong with my hand? Have minimum as shown. Have tops in suits I bid. Go.had you rebid 1N over 1♥, thus limiting your hand to 12-14, balanced, you could then rightly argue that this is a near maximum (I like the spade 10) and go. But you didn't... your bidding is entirely consistent with stronger hands.. thus a 4=2=2=5 15 count... yes, some matchpoint fanatics open all semi-balanced 15 counts via 1N, but very few good imps players do: AKJx xx Kx KQxxx... I would have bid this exactly as the auction went, and now I'd accept. Or you could hold a 15 count 4135, as another possibility. Therefore, in the context of your auction to date, you are minimum, not maximum. I'm a lawyer... historically lawyers were paid by the word... so while brevity is the soul of wit, lawyers tend to be witless :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 some people play that 2NT is not forcing, if that's the case this is not an obvious minimum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted December 31, 2008 Report Share Posted December 31, 2008 some people play that 2NT is not forcing, if that's the case this is not an obvious minimum. Perhaps, but the actual hand suggests that agreement was not in place as clearly responder is not worth 4NT opposite a non-forcing 2NT. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codo Posted January 1, 2009 Report Share Posted January 1, 2009 Isn't it obvious that 2 NT showed 12-14 and 4 NT 18-19? The agrrement seems easy too understand. So you have a non minimum, the hand could be even worse, but you are much farer away from a maximum,so this is an easy pass. I had never bid 4 NT with the north hand. Opposite a 12-14 NT with no fit no five card suit and max. 32 HCPS slam is against the odds and a simple 3 NT is more then enough. Partner will make it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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