Mbodell Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 [hv=d=n&v=n&s=sk9xxhaq9daxxctxx]133|100|Scoring: IMP1♠ - P - 2nt (jacoby) - 5♣6♠ - P - ??? [/hv] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the hog Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 "Are you serious?", to quote John McEnroe. Pass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarkDean Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 I was going to post that I thought this was a really obvious pass. Then I started trying to think of partner's hands for this auction, and am not as sure. I would still pass, but only because the IMP odds aren't that good, especially if we do not know they will be in slam at the other table. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohitz Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Pass of course. Partner has a stiff club. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aguahombre Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Dave's rule: Only one of us gets to blast on the same hand. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbodell Posted March 21, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Neither table bid 7, although the other auction had more chances as the other table has a 6♣ call instead of the 6♠ call (which then went 6♦-6♠). I like the 6♣ bid better with my hand, obviously, but I was wondering if partner could find the raise given the slam bid freely missing 3 key cards, but looks like nope. My hand was AQJxxx KTxxx KT -. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Dave's rule: Only one of us gets to blast on the same hand. Hehe, I failed to raise this on Beijing 2008 1♠-(2♦)-X-(5♦)6♥-(ps)- ♠x♥AQ108xx♦Ax♣Qxxx What do you think? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mohitz Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 What do you think? I am thinking why you didn't bid 2H in the first place! NFB? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gnasher Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Neither table bid 7, although the other auction had more chances as the other table has a 6♣ call instead of the 6♠ call (which then went 6♦-6♠). I like the 6♣ bid better with my hand, obviously, but I was wondering if partner could find the raise given the slam bid freely missing 3 key cards, but looks like nope. My hand was AQJxxx KTxxx KT -. Would you be thinking the same if he'd had K9xx Axx AQ9 10xx? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Too risky to bid 7. Especially since pard didn't bid 6♣ over 5. Preempts work. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pict Posted March 21, 2010 Report Share Posted March 21, 2010 Looks like a winner's hand. Who is the winner... MikeH says it's the bidders, so I'll go for 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mbodell Posted March 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Neither table bid 7, although the other auction had more chances as the other table has a 6♣ call instead of the 6♠ call (which then went 6♦-6♠). I like the 6♣ bid better with my hand, obviously, but I was wondering if partner could find the raise given the slam bid freely missing 3 key cards, but looks like nope. My hand was AQJxxx KTxxx KT -. Would you be thinking the same if he'd had K9xx Axx AQ9 10xx? Yes, and I know switch the reds makes it a bad slam. But then again over 6♣ and switched reds I think I'd bid 7 confidently too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jjbrr Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 pass over this. i'd bid grand over 6♣ and i dont think its close. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Siegmund Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Pass and hope we make it. I would've settled for a limit raise rather than 2NT on the first round opposite all but the most conservative openers. That aside, partner had a forcing pass, 5D, 5H, 5N, 6C, 6D, or 6H to choose from if we wanted to ask my opinion about anything, and he didn't. I'd need a major surprise for partner to think about acting here. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 What do you think? I am thinking why you didn't bid 2H in the first place! NFB? yeah NFB, didn't play them much, I was later told that I could had bid 3♥ forcing :/. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted March 22, 2010 Report Share Posted March 22, 2010 Looks like a winner's hand. Who is the winner... MikeH says it's the bidders, so I'll go for 7.Ah...to be quoted out of context B) The problem is that we can deduce that partner has an interesting hand and almost certainly a void in clubs....but...he is taking a shot...which suggests a limited, gambling hand on which he expects to fail opposite an inappropriate hand. Indeed, we know from our hand that he is bidding on a wing and a prayer..what if our hand was Kxxx Qxx AQJx Kx, as one 'heavy 2N' example might be, consistent with the auction? Heck, it might not have the heart Q! When partner makes a call that clearly hopes for a good dummy, and I have a good dummy, I pass. I need a spectacular dummy to overrule partner....there is little more discouraging than to have one partner make an optimistic bid (as in: it's a bidder's game) and have the other one raise the ante one too far. Incidentally, if one is going to bid 6♠, rather than 6♣, is there any merit to bidding 6♥? I think if the hand were AQxxxx KQxxx Kx void it might be clearer...as it is, as one poster suggested, if 6♠ is right on any Kxxxx side suit, how is responder supposed to guess which one it is? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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