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Playing in your best fit?

#1 User is offline   Echognome 

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Posted 2006-August-22, 15:53

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I'll let you bid it with your favourite partner.

I opened a strong club and relayed to 6♥ after a bit of a misbid by partner.

Anyway, I thought it interesting that...

In your 8 card spade fit, game is the limit.

In your 7 card heart fit, the small slam is best.

In your 6 card diamond fit, grand is quite good.
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Posted 2006-August-22, 16:51

Not the greatest of auctions here:
1h=1s
3h=4d
4h=6nt
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Posted 2006-August-22, 23:48

With relays I can't find out if partner has ♦T as well, so grand in ♦ is a blind guess (unless you think 4 tophonours in a 5-1 fit are enough). North will know about AQxxx-x-AKQxx-xx, so 6♥ has the best chance of making.

It doesn't help if South is relayer: he can't find out if partner has ♦J...
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Posted 2006-August-23, 02:29

Our team-mates bid to 7H after an Acol 2H opening from North. They suggested an auction after the fact to bid to 7D but it wasn't very convincing.

Our opponents played in 6H after a gentle start to the auction of 1H-1S-3H.
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Posted 2006-August-23, 02:38

Our teammates bid to 7NT after starting 1♥-1♠-4♥.

I didn't ask any further, especially as our opps subsided in 4♠.

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Posted 2006-August-23, 06:52

We bid to 6NT, on the slightly crude auction

2♣[1] : 3♣[2]
3♥ : 3♠
3N : 5N
6♥ : 6N

[1] Trebuchet, showing a weak 2 in diamonds, an Acol 2 in a major, or any 23+ point or game forcing hand
[2] Diamond positive (asking partner to bid 5♦ with the weak hand and game-forcing opposite any strong hand)
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Posted 2006-August-23, 07:09

7NT was actually a good contract with the J of hearts falling doubleton.
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