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#21 User is offline   jim420 

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Posted 2007-February-26, 05:48

Thanks for the responses so far. Now we come to what happened to my table... B)
Preempting 2♠ is not surprising here, but what could happen if we didn't preempt?

With some fluke bidding (that's what I thought at least :P ) We found out the best contract here for NS was not 2♠, or 3♠, or 4♠ (a ♥ lead could easily take you down, as in the majority of cases) It is...

3NT(N)!!! :blink: :ph34r:

Here comes the auction and the play...


Scoring: IMP

West North East South

 -     -     -     Pass
 Pass  1♣    1NT   2♠
 Pass  3♣    Pass  3♦
 Pass  3NT   Pass  Pass
 Dbl   Pass  Pass  Pass
 

H8 H4 H2 H5
HJ H7 H3 HK
S3 S2 SK SQ
C5 C4 CQ C2
CA C3 D4 C6
CK C8 D8 C7
S4 SA S5 SJ
HA DJ H9 H6
HQ S7 HT D5
D3 DA


Comment plz, I was North btw... :wacko:
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Posted 2007-February-26, 07:22

i don't know if I can comment on north's bidding without being offensive.
1) North bid over 2S with a bare minimum, North should pass
2) North did not support South's spade suit with 3-card support, but rebid a 5-card minor suit at the 3-level
3) North refused again to support South's spade suit and bid 3N
4) 3N is a lunatic bid
5) After 3N is doubled, North had one more chance to bid 4S, but refused again
North's bidding is below Novice

Added Edit: North's bidding is impossible even for a subbing non-bridge player, so I must assume that either the hands are wrong or the bidding is mistyped.

This post has been edited by SoTired: 2007-February-26, 07:27

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Posted 2007-February-26, 07:40

The only way this auction makes any sense is if North thought that two of his spades were clubs.
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Posted 2007-February-26, 07:51

no. the hands were correct, it's just me half sleeping (ah, and also must have been alt-tabbing between other games). This was the last hand of the day...lol that's why i said it was fluke...

actually i felt strange that this could make...

but could u reach 3N in other ways...except being drunk?
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Posted 2007-February-26, 08:06

It's nothing to do with 3N being the right contract, it's to do with North being declarer and thus protecting the ♥K from the lead. 4♠s is a vastly superior contract that was unlucky because it was off-sided.
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