[pclayton]

Saw a bid tonight in the JEC match that I've never seen before:

(1♥) - 5♥

How would you take 5♥?

[Apollo81]

Gigantic Michaels

[inquiry]

Exclusion, overcaller is going to place the contract with his next bid (after hearing the response). I guess he has a hand like...

KQT void AKQJTxxx AK

or similar

[pclayton]

inquiry, on Jan 8 2008, 05:38 PM, said:

Exclusion, overcaller is going to place the contract with his next bid (after hearing the response). I guess he has a hand like...

KQT void AKQJTxxx AK

or similar

Love to see a Bridgebrowser survey here Ben

[jdonn]

Call me crazy but I would say natural. The second choice would be Michaels but that really doesn't make much sense to me on this level. It still makes more than exclusion, which I can't believe was included to begin with, or has gotten votes...

[neilkaz]

Exclusion as nothing else comes close to making sense to me to be honest.

[cherdano]

Wow Josh...
Michaels doesn't make sense to me, it must be better to start with 2♥ so that we can clarify the second suit by the time we reach the 5-level. Exclusion is obviously crazy undiscussed but it is what I would pick if you forced me to make an agreement about this bid.

[jdonn]

Exclusion is what comes to mind as a player's first bid opposite a partner who has never bid? I swear if I made this problem I wouldn't have thought to include that option, and it makes less and less sense every time I think about it. I feel like everyone is playing a practical joke on me. Ok very funny what do you all really think?

Where I feel like I am...
1. bizarro

Short for Bizarro-worldo.

The opposite of the real world. Good is evil, round is square, hello is goodbye.

[cherdano]

Josh, to shock you even more: Some play an opening bid of 4N to ask about specific aces!!! Before partner had any chance to bid!!! The world is bizzzaarrrooooooooooo!!!!

[inquiry]

Well, i would never take it for super-duper michaels, but i kibitzed the hand in question, and i can tell you that either super-duper michaels or exclusion would fit the hand in question.... and certainly would if the spade 9 was exchanged for the spade 8. The redouble that followed the double would be nice to know if that was a "step response" or an obvious rescue yourself bid.

I will take a look on Bridgebrowser, but honestly, how many of these do you think there will be?

[blackshoe]

It means "partner, I know we have no agreement on this bid, but I trust you to figure out what I'm doing"

the bidder is dreaming.

[jdonn]

cherdano, on Jan 8 2008, 10:10 PM, said:

Josh, to shock you even more: Some play an opening bid of 4N to ask about specific aces!!! Before partner had any chance to bid!!! The world is bizzzaarrrooooooooooo!!!!

Know anyone who plays a 4NT overcall as blackwood?

However, I give. Apparently you can open exclusion, I can't compete with that.

[blackshoe]

If it's exclusion, which suit is trumps? Why?

[helene_t]

inquiry, on Jan 9 2008, 05:21 AM, said:

I will take a look on Bridgebrowser, but honestly, how many of these do you think there will be?

I made that bid once, it was a misclick. I suspect BB will find a few misclicks and dumpings, maybe a single preempt against an artificial 1♥ opening, and one or two exclusion/micheals/whatever hands.

[inquiry]

blackshoe, on Jan 9 2008, 04:18 AM, said:

If it's exclusion, which suit is trumps? Why?

What suit is going to be trumps? What ever suit the 5♥ bidder bids over the response.

Why? Because he must only need to know ACES outside of the void suit to decide between six and seven level.. (and if partner has no aces, the to stop in 5S if spades is his suit, and he needs just two aces for certain slam).

[Walddk]

No agreement of course, but I would take it as 11 tricks in his hand with spades, void in hearts, disregard that ace. One-suited, two-suited, don't know.

So the responses should be quite easy. 5♠ with no working ace, 6♠ with one and 7♠ with two. Number of spades irrelevant.

Roland

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

Michaels, because the cue is always Michaels
in my partnership, ok ... my partner would never
bid this, because he could achieve the same
with 2H, 3H, ..., but Michaels it is, and we dont
play Exclusion.

Oppossite a stranger no idea.

With kind regards
Marlowe

[Fluffy]

This means I have 11 tricks in spades. so raise me if you have 1.

♥A might or might not be included as an extra trick, I think it should not.

[pclayton]

The person that made this bid held:

♠KQJTxx
♥void
♦AKQxxx
♣x

and intended it as Exclusion. Of course its much easier to make this call when it's a friendly match and you announce it as Exclusion at the table

5♠ was strangely doubled on your left (would you send it back?) and pard put down a 3433 bust, but +850 was the result.

[inquiry]

while sipping coffee this morning, I search over 220,000,000 auctions for all (1H)-5H and (1S)-5S auctions in the bridgebrowser database (Jec's 5H bid from yesterday is not there yet, obviously). I found 32 such auction.. at none of these 32 tables was the auction duplicated at any other table. (BTW, jec held KQJT86 of spades if memory serves me well....)

Of the 32 auctions, one was identified as a misclick via alert. The average resultof the 32 five level cue-bids WAS HORRIBLE, and if you look at the hands you might see why... Here are the 32 hands...

AQJ873 void 4 AJ6542 (vul versus not vul)
P-1H-5H


KQJT542 void AJT8 K5
P-P-1H-5H


6 A93 A2 AKQT876
P-1S-5S... got to play 5S down five, 6C laydown


8 KJ863 AKT76 AJ vul versus vul
1S-5S-


A KQJ98 AK4 AQJ7 vul versus vul
P-P-1S-5S


A63 KT75 T42 987 (none vul)
P-1H-5H (*not a typo).. 5Hx down 9 -2300

void AQJ93 A5 AJT876 vul versus not vul
P-P-1S-5S

void K9 AT98764 AT97 (not vul versus vul)
P-1S-5S

void AKJ2 KJ64 AKQ85 (vul versus not vul)
P-P-1S-5S

QT98432 void 8 J8732 (not vul versus vul)
P-P-1H-5H (lead to -2600 and -17 imps)

void void KT8652 AQJT975 (none vul)
1H-5H

KQJT98 void A AKT976 (vul versus not vul)
P-P-1H-5H (alerted as any two suiter)

void T3 AKT98742 A84
P-P-1S-5S (alerted as misclick)


void AKJT864 AQT854 void (not vul versus vul)
1S-5S (alerted as hearts and diamonds)


6 AKQ9863 AK972 void (vul versus not vul)
1S-5S (alerted as hearts plus a minor)


void AKT9743 void AQ9864
1S-5S (alerted as ♥ + minor)


AQT98763 AKQJ 4 void
P-1H-5H

A5 KJ854 T8 KJ32
1H-5H (again, not a typo)

T 9 QJ8 KQT97632 not vul versus vul
P-1S-5S


8 AQJ532 J AKQ82 (none vul)
1S-5S


JT975 53 7643 QJ (not vul versus vul)
P-1H-5H


KQJT43 void AK63 AK7 (vul versus vul)
P-P-1H-5H


K9 8654 43 AQ864 (not vul versus vul)
1H-5H *special note, partner held AJT873 and never bid*


AQJ8732 void A985 KQ (vul versus vul)
P-1H-5H


void AQJ98542 AQJ A4 (vul versus not vul)
1S-5S


void AKT953 KT7654 7 (not vul versus vul)
1S-5S


AKQT98653 void A6 92 (all vul)
1H-5H

2 AKT98742 AK4 A (not vul versus vul)
1S-5S

4 KQJT987654 65 void (vul versus not vul)
1S-5S


A3 43 Q AQJ98742 (vul versus not vul)
1H-5H

void A764 AKQ4 AKQT6 (none vul)
1S-5S alerted as "reno pik 3 fity w pozostalych 4-4-4+


A 2 AT876532 K32 (not vul versus vul)
1S-5S