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#1 User is offline   kenrexford 

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Posted 2007-December-03, 12:22

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I think that's right.

Anyway, East opened 2♠. I hated the South hand. Pass makes sense. 3♣, if you bid, makes some sense. However, I took a gamble and shot out 3NT.

Pass, to partner. Partner got confused by my call and thought that a jump in notrump showed the minors. Not being sure, 4♥ looked like a decent call. Worst case, it is taken as a slam try. So, 4♥.

Pass, to me. I did not like 4♥. I did not like it at all. So, I decided that we were playing 4♥ as a transfer (technically we were, I thought), meant as a general, quantitative slam try. I wanted that hand, so I played that partner showed that hand. Optimism, perhaps.

I really wish that I had accepted, but I "signed off" with 5♣. +420 was worth a lot.

The point? Just a confession of sickness, perhaps. But, I'm curious if anyone else would have bid 3NT. I asked one NABC Champ, and they voted 3NT also (surprised me). I asked no one else.
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Posted 2007-December-03, 13:22

RHO opened 2♠ in first seat and I have the South hand? And two otherwise respectible members of the bridge community think that 3NT is the right call?

I am sorry that I read this during lunch.
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Posted 2007-December-03, 13:44

pass and 3♣ are the only calls that make sense with the South cards.
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Posted 2007-December-03, 14:06

I don't understand the humour supposedly present. Silly bidding (sorry, Ken, but you posted it) led to a good score for you and this is supposed to be funny?

Ask your opps if they were amused at your bidding sequence.

I have a friend and (in the distant past) occasional partner who always corners me whenever we see each other in order to give me 'problems' such as your problem over 2♠. Invariably he (or an opponent) chose a weird action that in turn led to a weird result (to give him credit, more often than not, he gets the horrific result on the hands he tells me about). So I've got to the point of being able to sometimes guess the 'correct' action simply by eliminating anything remotely normal. Maybe your NABC champ used the same approach :)
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