Minor suit bidding

[Cyberyeti]

We played a Swiss teams today, most of the interesting hands were minor suit oriented, interested in choices of auction

 

Hand 1: dealer E vul NS

 

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Hand 2: dealer E vul all

 

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Bonus question, if you arrive in 7♦, you will find trumps are 2-2 and everybody follows to any side suit cards you play, when you try clubs, you play small to the K (52K6) and on the 3, S plays the 10, how do you handle the clubs now.

 

Hand 3: dealer S who opens 1♠, N will bid 2♠, S will bid 3♠ if able vul none

 

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Hand 4 is not minor suit oriented, but is a discard problem

 

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Partner doubles N's weak NT ending the auction, vul none

 

He leads the A♠ and you see dummy

 

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Partner plays ♠AKQ what do you discard (and what do the discards mean) ? and then what do you discard when he cashes the J54, he's not imaginative enough to help you with the order he cashes them, just plays from the top. Declarer follows to 2 spades then discards

 

♦ on the third round

 

 

♦ on the 4th

 

 

♥ on the 5th

 

 

discarding a heart and a club from dummy

[Fluffy]

Hand 1:

 

1♦-2♣

3NT-4♦

4♠-4NT...

.... 7♦

 

Don't cue kings where partner is likelly short.

[TWO4BRIDGE]

Hand 1

Minor suit slams are difficult to employ science ... and a void doesn't help matters .

I would just blast to 6D after:

1D - 2D! ( inverted GF )

2H - 3C

3NT - 6D

 

or after:

1D - 2C! ( 2/1 GF )

3NT - 6D

[Cyberyeti]

We had an interesting choice on 1 (and in fact on 2), I could have bid 1♦-3♣ as a fit bid or 1♦-3♥ as a void splinter.

 

I opted for the void splinter so the auction should have gone:

 

1♦-3♥(void splinter, show exclusion keycards if non minimum)

3♠(non minimum, 0/3 non heart keycards)-3N(Q♦ ?)

5♦(yes, 3 keycards but no K♣/A♥/K♠)-6♣(I have the K or Q♣, bid the grand with the other one)

7♦

 

A wheel came off and I didn't get the opportunity to enquire about Q♣ so settled for the small slam in case partner had xx where Qxxx onside is problematic or xxx. I didn't want to bid a non 100% grand when I felt we might well gain from just bidding the small slam and opps were duly only in game.