Suggest an auction?

[dkharty]

[hv=d=s&v=b&n=saqht9xxdxxxxcqxx&s=skxxxhakqxdakqxcx]133|200|Scoring: MP[/hv]

 

Playing "vanilla" 2/1, can you suggest a reasonable auction to slam? Opps will stay out of your hair.

[Hanoi5]

1♦-1♥

4♣

 

And here you lose me. Maybe 5♥(6♥), maybe 4♠(4NT and later 6♥), but a normal North would simply bid 4♥ and it'll be kind of difficult for South to continue.

[kfay]

1♦-1♥

4♣-4♦ LTTC

Slam Zone

[gwnn]

sorry I don't move from N over 4♣. at the club it would go

 

1♦-1♥

4♣-4♥

6♥ but not because of UI abuse; 4♣ would have been Gerber.

[aguahombre]

1♦-1♥

4♣

 

And here you lose me.(snip)... but a normal North would simply bid 4♥ and it'll be kind of difficult for South to continue.

Same old story. The splinter has too wide a range. Could be 16-17 high plus the shortness, or could have 21 high plus the shortness.

 

Jump-shift to 2S, then jump to 4H, would show the huge hand, then North will get excited.

[ONEferBRID]

1D - 1H

1S - 2D

4C! - 4S

6H

[dkharty]

1♦-1♥

4♣

 

And here you lose me. Maybe 5♥(6♥), maybe 4♠(4NT and later 6♥), but a normal North would simply bid 4♥ and it'll be kind of difficult for South to continue.

Agree with this--not sure why North would think they are in the slam zone after 4C. Is he really going to imagine there are zero red suit losers?

[mike777]

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Playing "vanilla" 2/1, can you suggest a reasonable auction to slam?  Opps will stay out of your hair.

1d=1h

4c=4h

now with a 3 loser almost 2.5 loser hand south must move again.

 

with silent opp I would just rkc, risky...but ....plain vanilla.

 

north can never play me for this hand after 1d start...

 

the good news is we are vul so north should not have zero.

[jdonn]

now with a 3 loser almost 2.5 loser hand south must move again.

Why is it almost 2.5? Do you count Kxxx as 1.5 losers? It looks closer to 2.5 to me.

[mike777]

almost but not quite enough to adjust .5 for honors..close..but not enough.

[rogerclee]

1D-1H

4C-4H

P

 

Sometimes you miss a more or less indifferent slam when partner has a max, that's fine.

[Finch]

Slam's hardly cold. It basically needs both red suits 3-2 for a start (you can't pick up 4-1 hearts onside)

[pooltuna]

1♦ 1NT

2♥ 4♥

take it from there :)