Swiss cheese (1)

[ahydra]

Here's three hands from yesterday's Swiss Teams where we generally played OK, but simply had too many disasters or opponents getting away with things and finished with a very disappointing score. (I must admit I don't normally like to fill the forum full of threads but 1 hand per thread seems to be the norm.)

 

We'll start with this:

 

[hv=pc=n&s=skt65h86532djcaq8&n=saq874h4dak643ck6&d=e&v=n&b=2&a=3c]266|200[/hv]

 

Can you bid this to the cold 6♠?

 

In part 2 we'll look at how to concede YET ANOTHER doubled game. Stay tuned!

 

ahydra

[ggwhiz]

Can you bid this to the cold 6♠?

 

Not even close. passed around to north then

 

3♠ - 4♣

4♦ - 4♠

 

and I would call a further move by north something else besides inspired

[CSGibson]

My auction starts (3♣)-P-(P)-3♠; (P)-4♣

 

After 4♣, I'm just keycarding with the N hand, that's what I want to know/can reasonably find out, after all, and I can't really have a better hand for bidding only 3♠.

[mr1303]

I bid 4D as leaping Michaels as North, but we didn't get there.

[jallerton]

Not even close. passed around to north then

 

3♠ - 4♣

4♦ - 4♠

 

and I would call a further move by north something else besides inspired

 

Blindingly obvious?

[Finch]

After the same 3C opening bid passed round to North, our opponents bid

 

3S - 4C

4D - 4S

4NT - 5H (dbl)

6S

 

teammates had a different problem, it started P P 2H dbl 4H, they also got to slam

[ahydra]

Thanks for replies all. Team-mates faced this problem and bid

 

(3C)-p-(p)-X

(p)-4C*-(p)-4S (4C was "pick a major")

all p,

 

while at our table South made a very aggressive direct 4C over 3C and North just jumped to 6S.

 

ahydra