pclayton Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 ♠ATx♥Axxxx♦Q9♣Jxx IMP's, long matches. White on red. 1♠ by pard as dealer. You make a forcing NT call (playing vanilla 2/1). LHO chimes in with 2♣ and pard makes a 3♦ call. This is the 5th session you've played with your partner. Fast arrival sequences after jump shifts are undiscussed. Whats your call? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 5s Wow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HeartA Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 4S, means I would bid 3S (3-card support, 10-11 hcp) had pd not jumped to 3D. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 If 3S now is forcing, I bid it. Otherwise I bid 4C, watch pard wiggle, and bid 4S afterwards. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 If 3S now is forcing, I bid it. Otherwise I bid 4C, watch pard wiggle, and bid 4S afterwards. Why is 3♠ forcing, and not suit preference? :P (not sure about this) I bid 4♠. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luke warm Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 4S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flytoox Posted February 3, 2005 Report Share Posted February 3, 2005 I like 5S. Pd jumped shift. He should have SKQ, DAKJ and at least one of HK and CA. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mcphee Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 Partner jump shifted, I have a very good hand with what amounts to 3 aces as I hold the Q of D. I Think 3S is the reight approach and see if partner is able to show a C control. Then I plan to hang him high. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 5♠, what else. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 I like 5S. Pd jumped shift. He should have SKQ, DAKJ and at least one of HK and CA. Agree - if partner has a club control 6S should be laydown and without discussion I think partner will interpret 5S as asking for a club control. Given my hand it is hard for me to imagine him having a hand with no club control, but perhaps he has something like: KQJxxxvoidAKJ10xxx I probably would have bid only 2D with this myself, but I am sure that many players would jump shift. Fred GitelmanBridge Base Inc.www.bridgebase.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted February 4, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 ! bid 5♠ too. At the table I considered 3♠ and 4♠, but didn't want to get into a fast arrival vs forced preference discussion. Es[ecially with this pard, makes things as easy as possible. I gave this hand to a lot of other players; no one thought of 5♠. I found: QJ9xxx, void, AKJxx, Ax (a bit light, but slam is excellent). Good job posters ;) Now you get to change seats and play it: ♠AT7♥A6532♦Q9♣J73 ♠QJ9832♥void♦AKJ73♣A4 Opening lead: spade 4. You choose to win the Ace (if you think low is better, please state why). RHO follows with the 5. Continue the play. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hotShot Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 If i make 5♠, 4♦, a ♥ and a ♣, i'm home.Since my LHO bid ♣ my RHO is more likely to have an extra card in ♦ and ♠. I prefer to play a small ♠. This is right, if LHO played low from Kx or Kxx, it does no harm, if RHO holds Kx or Kxxx.So i's only wrong if LHO holds xxx and RHO single K.This way i stay in control of ♠, so i can try to ruff a small ♦ to protect against 5-1, drop a small club on A♥ and make +1. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cherdano Posted February 4, 2005 Report Share Posted February 4, 2005 I assume I am playing 6♠, right? If so, I definitely play low on the first trick. I want to ruff a diamond to protect against them splitting 5-1, and this is safest if I draw exactly 2 rounds of trumps beforehand. It only loses to RHO having singleton ♠K and LHO having a singleton diamond. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pclayton Posted February 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 With a 2♣ call (since you switched chairs it came from the person on your right), what do you think the chances are that the hand with the 5 diamonds also holds 3 trump? If you duck the spade, RHO wins the K♠ and shoots back a spade. Frankly, I don't think there's a whole lot of difference between rising with the ace and ducking. LHO (who is very good) wouldn't lead from Kxx. Ducking allows you to control the trumps a little better though. Rising allows you to drop a stiff K now and then (would LHO lead a trump from xxx? You betcha!). My partner rose with the A♠; thats really the only reason I mentioned that. But its not the interesting part of this hand anyway. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jikl Posted February 5, 2005 Report Share Posted February 5, 2005 You can actually place a lot of the high cards when RHO (formerly known as LHO in the bidding) plays ♠K. You now know a fair bit about the ♥ suit from the bidding and opening lead. Why didn't the opening leader lead his partner's suit? Why weren't ♥s lead to take those quick tricks? We probably now know that leftie does not have ♥KQJxx or QJ10xx. We can probably assume also that rightie does not have 4♥, they would probably have made a TO double of 1NT showing those 4♥s. Hrm, don't know where I am going with this since it is nearly 6am :ph34r: Sean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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