Double ! Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 WinstonM I assumed that the "relative" meant relative to other bridge players, in which case it is quite alright. Relative compared to the rest of the population is a deep postion to take, however. Eric Good grief, Charlie Brown Chill, man not here to offend anyone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 Assuming relative sanity of all parties Gee, is everyone REALLY this sensitive? For the record, this statement was intended as "Relative to the auction." In other words, everyone saw the vulnerability and no one made a totally ludicrous bid. I never knew I was so provocative. WinstonM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted June 13, 2005 Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 Well, the question was what to lead, not how to continue the auction........ Obviously, everyone has a suit and a void (except us, naturally) thereby justifying their bids. The difficulty is how to find pard's shortness. With C length, he would just bid 6 clubs (offering a choice of slams) so he has the opp's suits. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted June 13, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 13, 2005 The fear that a heart might be trumped, and a club thrown away on diamond seems sound.... on the otherhand, what is partner doubling on? Certianly not a trick in hearts, certainly not the club ACE (we have those). So seems must be a spade or diamond trick. At the table, it turned out anything but low club or a spade would set this. What did partner have? You really don't want to know. But your last chance for a plus is 5♠ (doubled or not), and 6 clubs or 6H would have been really crushed. Why did I choose to pass? The opponents were red and we where white. I suspected that partner might have been bidding 5♥ under a lot of pressure (he was), and poor splits might doom anything. Finally, my partner has nothing even vaguely indicating a doulble (spade void, Q high heart, two small diamonds, four small clubs). The only thing going for the double, is it would have worked if most of you had been his partner. On my spade lead, they had 15 or 16 top tricks... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 What did partner have? You really don't want to know. Au contraire, mon ami, I do, I do. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
inquiry Posted June 15, 2005 Author Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 What did partner have? You really don't want to know. Au contraire, mon ami, I do, I do. :rolleyes: This was more of a queston of what was the best lead. My partner had (are you ready for it?) this hand plus or minus a jack... voidQxxxxxxxxQxxx After my spade lead, declearer had 9S, and 8D tricks off the top. I could have cashed our two aces and waited for the spade Queen. (we have exactly one trick in each of our suits). I considered the club ACE, but figured that partner must have club fit for his 5♥ bid as well. I considered heart ACE, but afraid dummy might be able to score a ruff with his singleton spade. So at worse, spade lead gives up one trick for another. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Al_U_Card Posted June 15, 2005 Report Share Posted June 15, 2005 Might I suggest that you moderate his medication?....lol They do say that pass is the most under used (or useful) bid. :rolleyes: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheoKole Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 A Clubs and then J clubs for partner to ruff and asking for a Heart return (if we are very lucky declarer and dummy will have 1 each then 10 Clubs for a heart continuation, if we get that far. A ruff- sluff should make no difference at this point. :) Cheers Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Winstonm Posted June 18, 2005 Report Share Posted June 18, 2005 Assuming relative sanity of all parties I reiterate. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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