[Vilgan]

First 6/6 I've picked up in a while, with a fun auction and result. More of an issue as to what to bid with LHO cards, as he had to make the guess blind on the 5 level.

I opened 1♦ in first seat with: -void- Q AT8xxx AQTxxx
Auction then proceeded to go:

1♦ 1NT P 2♥(xfer)
5♣ ??

His hand was:
KQJx
AKx
Qxx
Jxx

What would you do with this hand everybody white? You have at least a 9 card fit (actually a 10 card fit).. but no roughing value. You also have no idea how strong partner is.


He chose to bid 5♠, at which time which I doubled and it got passed out. partner tabled her singleton club, I won my queen, A, returned a small one for a rough, got my A of diamonds (RHO had the stiff J).. exited Q hearts, and she eventually got her jack of hearts at the end.

It seems rather rare that the hand with 24 HCP and a 10 card spade fit can't come close to making anything, whereas the 16 HCP 9 card fit easily makes 5♦. He was annoyed at himself for bidding 5 spades... but imo.. even flat it still takes some serious restraint to let the opps play 5♦ undoubled.

Okay not any serious cool "omg how do you play this crazy squeeze" hand, but was kind of a fun shape vs HCP + spades hand.

Eric

[mikeh]

Jlall, on Mar 30 2007, 02:15 PM, said:

Vilgan, on Mar 30 2007, 02:00 PM, said:

1♦ 1NT P 2♥(xfer)
5♣ ??

His hand was:
KQJx
AKx
Qxx
Jxx

What would you do with this hand everybody white?

I would be surprised if passing was not 100 % unanimous. Anything other than pass is completely insane.

agreed

[inquiry]

Jlall, on Mar 30 2007, 02:15 PM, said:

Vilgan, on Mar 30 2007, 02:00 PM, said:

1♦ 1NT P 2♥(xfer)
5♣ ??

His hand was:
KQJx
AKx
Qxx
Jxx

What would you do with this hand everybody white?

I would be surprised if passing was not 100 % unanimous. Anything other than pass is completely insane.

Well, I would pass, but clearly pass can not be 100% because at Vilgan's table, his LHO did not pass. So lets say it is 99.99999% unanimous...

As a btw, can something be unanimous that is not 100%? I mean, can you be 80% pregnant. Seems it is either unanimous or not (or pregnant or not), but that is really an aside.

[jillybean]

inquiry, on Mar 30 2007, 01:41 PM, said:

Well, I would pass, but clearly pass can not be 100% because at Vilgan's table, his LHO did not pass. So lets say it is 99.99999% unanimous...

As a btw, can something be unanimous that is not 100%? I mean, can you be 80% pregnant. Seems it is either unanimous or not (or pregnant or not), but that is really an aside.

lol (I had to read it twice)

pass!

[mikeh]

Well, we know that professional athletes, and others, can certainly give 110%.

So maybe it is possible to be 110% unanimous, in which case, being only 100% unanimous means that about 9.0909091% (approximately) of bidders would disagree?

Inflation has struck almost all aspects of life... prices, bbo skill levels, degrees of effort... so why no consensus as well? I'm virtually 110% sure that this is the case....

Of course, I expect everyone to agree with me... it should be...... unanimous

[whereagles]

Not really.. with doping you can do perhaps up to 105%

110% is quite difficult without a blatant overload of steroids

[whereagles]

argh quintuple post. can someone delete those?

[whereagles]

Not really.. with doping you can do perhaps up to 105%

110% is quite difficult without a blatant overload of steroids

[whereagles]

Not really.. with doping you can do perhaps up to 105%

110% is quite difficult without a blatant overload of steroids

[whereagles]

Not really.. with doping you can do perhaps up to 105%

110% is quite difficult without a blatant overload of steroids

[whereagles]

Not really.. with doping you can do perhaps up to 105%

110% is quite difficult without an overload of steroids

[han]

Five post by wereagles in a row, I can't take it anymore!

[whereagles]

Well, what can I do? I can't delete posts and moderators apparently can't be bothered to do that either

Let's just say it's a new world record in pwnage

[dake50]

P Let partner get his 5H on SAT8xxx HAQTxx D void Cxx.