mtvesuvius Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 NV vs V at IMPs you hold: AxxxAAKQTxxxx 3♦ - (P) - ? Partner is a Junior, and her pre-empts vary greatly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xcurt Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 I might as well beat Ken to this. I am going to bid 3♠. If partner bids 3NT, I can pass that. If partner raises spades, I have finagled a help-suit slam try out of partner which I can accept. 6♣. If partner retreats to 4♦ I will raise to 5♦, hopefully impeding a spade lead. It will be fun to watch my LHO try to simultaneously return a spade and a trump at trick 2 against 5♦. If partner bids 4♣, I have an easy 6♣ call. I don't think I can ask for aces at this point so I can't bid 7. Note that I can't bid 4♣, forcing, here. It's key-card for diamonds (0/1/1/2/2). Other alternatives are just bidding 3NT (betting on some heart junk from partner or a spade lead), just bidding 5♦ (probably needs partner to get the trumps out before the opponents knock the ♠A off the table, a race she rates to lose), or just bidding 5♣ (betting on a spade trick or a spade ruff or the ♥A). Since partner has 22% of the missing non-diamonds (if holding 7 diamonds), and assuming no shift in the probability of holding any offsuit card a posteriori 3♦, I make it roughly even money that none of these things come off. Since often when partner has one trick she will have two tricks (because also holding the ♦K) I think the times I reach slam, making, put 3♠ over the top in expectancy. At the table I wouldn't have time to work this all out, so I would have bid a simple 5♣. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Codo Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 Partner is a junior NV against V. So I expect no outside aces, no outside stuff. I would try 5 club to play. If this is not to play but a kind of cuebid or denial cuebid and I have no other way to show my minor, I pass. I guess the chance that the lead a heart against 3 NT is around 75 %, so I prefer to avoid this contract. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 5♣ for me too. I don't like masterminds like 3♠ that don't let me play the hand :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 I am between 5♣ and 3NT, I like that partner might find his hand ultra useful in clubs and raise to slam once in a (long) while so 5♣ it is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mtvesuvius Posted May 5, 2009 Author Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 Or Ultra-Worthless: xxxxQJTxxxxJx :) Anyway, thanks for the responses... Interesting reasoning on 3♠, I considered something like that, but I wasn't sure. As it turns out 3♥ probably would work, partner will bid 3♠ and LHO has KJ9xx and may not lead a ♥ now :( Well, I chose 6♣, not thinking of much I could do scientifically... Down 2. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 That should be ok against 4♥ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 Easy 5♣ with that partner Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted May 5, 2009 Report Share Posted May 5, 2009 I might as well beat Ken to this. I am going to bid 3♠. ... If partner raises spades, I have finagled a help-suit slam try out of partner which I can accept. 6♣. You have? All you have finalged is spade length, I don't see how that qualifies as a help suit slam try. On this hand I simply guess 5♣. If my ace were hearts instead I might try 6♣ as I could at least hope to get to partner's hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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