[cherdano]

Partnering the best bidder in the world, you pick up:

Scoring: IMP

(P) 1♣ (1♦) 1♥
(2♦) X* (2♠) 3♣
(3♠) 4♦ (5♦) ?

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Expert opponents. Double showed 3 hearts.
It seems you have the most balanced hand at the table, but what do you do?

[mike777]

Pass
This is a dead minimum for my previous bidding. 3clubs rather than good/bad 2nt

[pbleighton]

6C, because it feels right.

Peter

[cherdano]

mike777, on Aug 8 2007, 04:12 PM, said:

Pass
This is a dead minimum for my previous bidding. 3clubs rather than good/bad 2nt

You don't play good bad. If you think you have a dead minimum, you should double anyway, as pass is forcing.

[pclayton]

Looks like a bid one more hand. Could be one of those magic 23 point fitters.

[Echognome]

Double-fitter, useful side shortages, wtp?

6♣ obvio.

[keylime]

6C, and prepare the celebrations.

You hold the best diamond holding to accept a slam try coupled with above average trumps and length. In addition you have a stiff in the spade suit which upgrades.

[mike777]

cherdano, on Aug 8 2007, 05:33 PM, said:

mike777, on Aug 8 2007, 04:12 PM, said:

Pass
This is a dead minimum for my previous bidding. 3clubs rather than good/bad 2nt

You don't play good bad. If you think you have a dead minimum, you should double anyway, as pass is forcing.

I do not x..for all I know 5d is making, prefer to pass and slow things down. Partner is allowed to bid again.
3c shows:
5 clubs, check
12 support pts, check
4 hearts, check
Pass of 5d shows:
forcing, partner made a slam try and I show few if any hcp in diamonds. minimum hand for previous bidding. I got 12 support points somewhere, maybe in my bid suits?

[jdonn]

Partner showed why he is the best bidder in the world on this hand too

Jlall, on Aug 8 2007, 05:41 PM, said:

In all seriousness this should be a question of investigating 7 or not since it could easily be cold, anyone who defends 5D X or attempts to is really missing the boat. If the opps bid 6D and pard passes I will insta bid 7, and if RHO bids 6D I will insta pass. I think I'm happier in 6C than defending 7D X so lets just buy it as cheap as possible and/or get to 7 with the least certainty possible.

Just for curiosity sake. Can you give an example of a hand that would bid the same as this one, including the 6♣ you chose, then double a 6♦ bid on the right?

[helene_t]

I voted pass but suddenly realize that there is not hand p can have that doesn't make 6♣ . Still happy to have passed though since when I pass and pull, p may bid 7 when it's right

[cherdano]

Echognome, on Aug 8 2007, 04:43 PM, said:

Double-fitter, useful side shortages, wtp?

6♣ obvio.

Tp is that we might make 7, that opponents might save, that we might wonder whether we want them to save or not, etc...

[skjaeran]

Obviously 6♣ is more or less laydown. The point is how to be able to buy the contract in 6 or 7♣. I'll try 6♣ now and make a forcing pass over 6♦ by RHO, bid 7♣ after 6♣ (6♦) p (p) and sit for any double by partner.

[cherdano]

At the table I thought 6♣ wtp, as many posters. RHO bid 6♦, which I doubled, but later it seemed to me I had definitely underbid my hands.
Justin and Harald seem to agree with that, and as usual they have it right. However, partner pulled to 7♣ (?), LHO competes to 7♦ partner doubles, all pass:

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How do you like the contract? Well, RHO almost certainly has 4 spades and 7 diamonds; if he is 4270 you get 1100, if he is 4171 you get 1400, if he is 4072 you get 300 (obviously you lead a spade). He was 1471, so we beat par by 30 points

[han]

Best bidder strikes again.

[cherdano]

Btw, I think it is the first time I ever underbid a hand with 6 working hcp opposite a 1-level opener while I made 2 free bids and raised partner to small slam.

[han]

Your underbidding is already quite rare.