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Some hands are a constructive dialogue between partners, and some just need to ask a simple question.

 

The message is: "Do you have the K"? Thats all you really care about. Oh, I suppose, if pard has 4 hearts and a stiff diamond, that would be nice too.

 

Theres a few intelligent ways to do it. Perhaps the best is to respond 2. Over pard's rebid, make the cheapest rebid that can't be passed. Eventually trot out grand slam force, and if pard knows the treatment, he'll bid 6 which should show one of the top honors.

 

Pard may be a little suprised when you bid 7, but he'll forgive you when you lay your hand down at T1.

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Agree with above poster. Extreme hands are to be bid via imagination, not by the book :) I don't really know how I would deal the hand, but starting 2D seems eccentric enough for me... lol.

 

A "practical" way out is

 

1S 2H

2S 7D

 

It's a "75%" grand: pard may have the diam king. If not, the king might be onside :)

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Wow incredible hand.

 

As many posters said your mission is to find the diamond king. And there're some ways to do that when I saw this hand two ideas came to my mind:

 

If you play "specific kings" with 5NT you can just use 4NT somewhere and see if pd has the dK then bid 7h or 6h.

A second way is to bid hearts and then clubs and see if pd can bid 3NT if he does then he has the dK and you can jump to 7.

Finally and risky you can use a diamond splinter and see if pd retreats to 4s with "wasted" values in diamonds. Then he has the dK and you go to 7.

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Interesting ideas there, Luis. The funniest will be to look at pard's face when he hears..

 

1S 2H

2S 3C

3NT 7H!

 

or

 

1S 4D

4S 7H!!

 

The last one is particularly outrageous. His face will turn blue upon hearing 7H. But yours will turn RED when if pard thinks 7H is a choice of grand slams and "retreats" to 7S!! :rolleyes:

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