Strong 6-4-3, do you want to be in slam? How to go about that?
#1
Posted 2014-November-23, 17:23
#2
Posted 2014-November-23, 17:29
#4
Posted 2014-November-23, 18:29
diana_eva, on 2014-November-23, 17:31, said:
FWIW I chose 2H.
In my world, the one thing a 2H cue does not have for this situation is 4-card "support" for partner's "1S" bid showing 4 spades but not five.
It seems we must use some Game-forcing spade raise which denies control of the heart suit. It hasn't been raised and that means partner cannot be presumed to have shortness there.
The convention with no name, if you play it at all, should apply here just as if Responder had bid 1S. So, a 4D rebid would work for us. IMO, it is short of slammish 4C (which is not necessarily a splinter in clubs the way we use CWNN.) 4D and 4C are both 4-6 bids for us, with 4C being stronger.
#5
Posted 2014-November-23, 23:21
diana_eva, on 2014-November-23, 17:31, said:
FWIW I chose 2H.
I have no strong opinion. I would probably bid 4C and pass a signoff, I don't think this hand is as good as it looks though I could miss a slam. We have problems in diamonds, trumps, heart ruff (not to mention control), and entries if they lead a club and tap us (we have to negotiate keeping control, setting up/running diamonds, and pulling trumps while being able to get back to our hand and get to partners hand to pull trumps etc). A lot of times we will need at least the pointed suits to split. I think partner will in general evaluate well knowing we have club shortness (and having a 4H bid avail). Of course partner with QJ9x Kx xxx xxxx will not cuebid and I will miss a very good slam. I'm not sure other routes will get him to appreciate that hand either though.
#6
Posted 2014-November-24, 01:55
Gotta work on my hand evaluation sigh.
Full hand was:
#7
Posted 2014-November-24, 04:16
(3♣) dbl all pass
I felt somewhat disappointed to see my dbl passed out
#8
Posted 2014-November-24, 07:36
At my table, the bidding was as shown, and opener rebid 4♣. Responder signed off in 4♠, and that was the final contract.
-650 was a ZERO. We lost to the slam that diana and navahak bid, and the other two results were 3♣x going off less than the value of game.
#9
Posted 2014-November-24, 09:52
still, the junk pree brought back memories of my junior days
#10
Posted 2014-November-24, 10:49
I would go for 4♣, partner will understand directly the importance of ♠QJ, a 5th spade, ♥AK and heart short. He will slightly missevaluate at first ♣A, but I plan on bidding 5♣ next so that he understands. Once I show void I also show long diamonds, and that means partner knows ♥Ax is zero losers on te long run.
#11
Posted 2014-November-24, 13:47
Responder's 3 NT bid after your 2 ♥ seems to provide the ♥ control, but the issue of whether responder has the ♠ Q is still up in the air. The 3 NT bid suggests there are enough HCP that it might be there, but it doesn't guarantee it. Unless you can find a way to find out if it's there, you shouldn't bid slam. (I'm sure we all have fallen in love with hands and bid too much at times. I know I have.)
About the only way I can see to be sure that it's there would be a bidding sequence with a ♠ agreement, cues where responder could show the ♥ control, and RKCB with a queen ask. I'm not sure I can come up with such a sequence.
#12
Posted 2014-November-26, 12:08
an attempt to get there works out badly (it happens a LOT). IMHO 2h was the right
way to go and your partner should not have wasted all that space with 3n when a
2n (2 quick tricks up to just short of 3 aces) bid was correct (3n should be reserved
for 3 aces or better so there are automatically slam aspirations opposite a cue bid).
With any rock gut minimum responder can bid a non forcing 2s over 2h. This does not
suddenly promise more spades it merely makes it clear responder has little in reserve.
sometimes responder will have to bid 3s (forcing) which shows the 2QT+ but nothing else to
bid and still only promises 4 spades.
So the bidding proceeds 1d 1h x p 2h 2n p 3s
This sets spades and along with the cue bid is game forcing and showing slam aspirations.
Our hand has gotten better now that we know responder has something in hearts (hopefully
not JTxx ouchies). It is now a matter of partnership understanding (nothing mentioned
so far should be less than standard when you think about it). My method (which works well here)
is to treat 3n as showing at least 1 of the top 3 trump honors by any hand limited to less than
an opening bid (opening bid+ needs at least 2 of top 3) and if unable to bid nt cue bid aces.
So on this hand responder has to merely bid 4s and we should sign off since we know we are missing
both the heart ace and the spade Q (unless we need to gamble:)
#13
Posted 2014-November-26, 12:17
If you start with 2!h, the auction tends to get rather muddy, but you have two extras levels to work things out, although I'd rather make an initial, descriptive call.
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