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#21 User is offline   cherdano 

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Posted 2006-June-02, 17:34

cherdano, on May 26 2006, 11:03 PM, said:

5. After two passes at all red, RHO opens 1N. You pass ♠KQ87 ♥K2 ♦QT532 ♣K7 (agree?) and partner reopens with double=spades and another. What now? (2-level is pass/correct, 2N would ask for 2nd suit and show game interest.)

I passed, felt good about it and it worked, but it's really rare one has the chance to try a pass like this, so I am not too confident about it. Here it seemed right with the excellent lead and help for partner's second suit.

The ♠K lead didn't work as well as I hoped, as partner's suit was 9xxx, but with his ♣A and ♥AJTxx we still beat it. Spade makes 10 tricks with good guessing, but +200 beats +170 and was worth most of the matchpoints.
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Posted 2006-June-03, 05:04

cherdano, on Jun 2 2006, 06:24 PM, said:

cherdano, on May 26 2006, 11:03 PM, said:

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Scoring: MP

P-(P)-1♥-(1♠)
4♣*-(4♠)-?

4♣ was fit-showing, forcing, but does not establish a forcing pass.

Yeah I doubled and it made. Partner had AKxxx of clubs (and QJxxx in hearts), but LHO was 5=2=5=1 and dummy had ♥A singleton.
5♥ is down 1 on a red suit lead.

Arend

I had Q10xxx in hearts, I would certainly have opened with QJxxx. I also thought about opening with x Q10xxx xx AKxxx, that would have worked very well.
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Posted 2006-June-03, 16:34

cherdano, on May 26 2006, 04:03 PM, said:


1. 3♦, gleefully. Take away their potential club partial. Dummy isn't too bad for pard at 3♦.

2. For lack of knowing any better, lead up to the J♦ trying to maybe get a 2nd diamond trick. The lead infers 5-3 hearts on gut feeling.

3. Splinter is all wrong here to me. I have a six card suit - fyi, I play 3♠ here as this hand, the 4-6-x-x G/F in Tangelo. 2♦ is begging for more bidding. Bury them quickly.

4. My exact motions: a calm, fluid reach for the double card, displayed on the table, neatly in order, and after the hand thank partner for finding a bid that helped you. If it makes, then I'll start wondering what the opening or the fit jump or the shape of entire hand is and chalk it up to distribution.

5. I pass and go for broke. +200 looks real good at MPs at a partial.
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