Contested Auction

[ArtK78]

Playing in a BBF team match, I picked up this collection:

 

[hv=pc=n&w=saj7hak954da7632c&d=s&v=e&b=3&a=p1h4c4d5c]133|200[/hv]

 

1) What is your action over 5♣?

2) If you bid 6♣, the auction continues: (7♣) - x - (P). What now?

[BunnyGo]

Playing in a BBF team match, I picked up this collection:

 

[hv=pc=n&w=saj7hak954da7632c&d=s&v=e&b=3&a=p1h4c4d5c]133|200[/hv]

 

1) What is your action over 5♣?

2) If you bid 6♣, the auction continues: (7♣) - x - (P). What now?

 

I do bid 6♣, and then I bid 7♦.

[HighLow21]

My first instinct was to double 7♣ which, I dare say, probably is going down. B-) But, now that I think about it more, I think 7♦ is the winning bid here. Partner certainly has a dead minimum of Kxxxx♦ and is probably much better than that in diamonds; he has to have at least 10 points and a 5-card suit. Thus he has help in spades and/or diamonds hearts and usually both. Plus the opponents' bidding makes it far less likely that he has wasted club honors.

 

I'd expect 7♦ to make about 75% of the time, and it should be at worst on a major suit finesse.

[aguahombre]

#2 wouldn't happen, because I don't see how anything can be gained by bidding 6C. It can only suggest to partner that, when I next bid 7D, there is some doubt about where I want the hand to be played, an accident waiting to happen.

 

Immediate 7D seems about right, then let the TD decide what to do about their 8♣ contract.

[ggwhiz]

#2 wouldn't happen, because I don't see how anything can be gained by bidding 6C.

 

True. I would think that 5nt should be the GSF but if you are going to bid 7♦ anyway and I would, why bother.

[Phil]

Isn't this exactly what a pass and pull 6♣ looks like after 5♣? I have a club void, diamond length and a pile of controls. A direct 6♣ does not do justice to this.

[ArtK78]

A little backround.

 

I was playing this as part of a BBF League match. I was playing it on my laptop while competeing in a live poker game as part of my poker league. So my attention was somewhat divided.

 

I didn't give the situation a lot of thought when I first bid 6♣. After the bidding continued 7♣ - x - P back to me, it occurred to me that I should have bid 7♦ over 5♣. The only likely flaw in a 7♦ contract would be if partner had 3 hearts missing the queen, and there was no way I could ever find out about that. And I thought that the chances of his having that heart holding was small. Given the opponents' violent club bidding, it was likely that whatever cards partner had for his free 4♦ call they all should be working.

 

So I bid 7♦.

 

Moments later, I got a "Connection Lost" message. AAARRRRGGGHHH! I reconnected to the internet and to BBO, and found that my 7♦ bid had not been recorded! So, it looked to everyone at the table that I left for about 3 minutes and came back to bid 7♦. I don't know about you, but if I were on the other side that would look fishy to me.

 

In any event, I bid 7♦. Partner held:

 

KTxx

Qx

KQTxx

Qx

 

Hearts were 4-2 so 7♦ was easy. It was also a push.

 

EDITED: Forgot partner had ♥Q.

[han]

6C is asking for trouble, what if partner thinks for a long time before doubling 7C? The fact that you were also playing poker when you bid 6C shouldn't matter to the director. I didn't understand the comment about hearts being 4-2 so 7D was easy but it has been a long week.

[ArtK78]

6C is asking for trouble, what if partner thinks for a long time before doubling 7C? The fact that you were also playing poker when you bid 6C shouldn't matter to the director. I didn't understand the comment about hearts being 4-2 so 7D was easy but it has been a long week.

Sorry. Forgot partner had ♥Q. I edited my previous post.