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Watching Vugraph, one hand piqued my interest. The auction at one table went 1D-2NT(♥+♣)-5D-5H-X-P-P-P, scoring +850. A club lead from Axx would have yielded a ruff for -200. Big swing.
This hand suggests a rare interpretation of 5C. 1D-2NT-5C. If 3C (unusual versus unusual, perhaps) would agree diamonds as trumps, invitational+ or GF, and if 4C would be a Splinter, is 5C more useful as Exclusion RKCB or the like, especially if agreeing diamonds (little room for answers), of is it more useful as a lead-suggesting shortness bid, preemptive to 5D?
Any thoughts on this? If used, the 5C call would have either netted +200 or, worst case, protected for -300 at 5DX and a push.
(As an aside, with Axx in clubs, perhaps Ace and out a club makes sense anyway...)
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kenrexford, on Jul 20 2006, 09:16 AM, said:
Watching Vugraph, one hand piqued my interest. The auction at one table went 1D-2NT(♥+♣)-5D-5H-X-P-P-P, scoring +850. A club lead from Axx would have yielded a ruff for -200. Big swing.
This hand suggests a rare interpretation of 5C. 1D-2NT-5C. If 3C (unusual versus unusual, perhaps) would agree diamonds as trumps, invitational+ or GF, and if 4C would be a Splinter, is 5C more useful as Exclusion RKCB or the like, especially if agreeing diamonds (little room for answers), of is it more useful as a lead-suggesting shortness bid, preemptive to 5D?
Any thoughts on this? If used, the 5C call would have either netted +200 or, worst case, protected for -300 at 5DX and a push.
(As an aside, with Axx in clubs, perhaps Ace and out a club makes sense anyway...)
This hand suggests a rare interpretation of 5C. 1D-2NT-5C. If 3C (unusual versus unusual, perhaps) would agree diamonds as trumps, invitational+ or GF, and if 4C would be a Splinter, is 5C more useful as Exclusion RKCB or the like, especially if agreeing diamonds (little room for answers), of is it more useful as a lead-suggesting shortness bid, preemptive to 5D?
Any thoughts on this? If used, the 5C call would have either netted +200 or, worst case, protected for -300 at 5DX and a push.
(As an aside, with Axx in clubs, perhaps Ace and out a club makes sense anyway...)
My experience with Exclusion has been that its very useful and you usually are just looking for one keycard from partner for slam.
I strongly uspect that Ace of clubs may have been the best lead on the actual deal anyway.
-Noble
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