[pclayton]

So yesterday you are playing with Csaba and get a headache after about 10 hands (no offense) so you call 'last hand'.

Naturally you are dealt:

♠x ♥void ♦AKQTTxxxxx ♣Ax

I have played a LOT of bridge in my life, but this is only the 2nd time I've been dealt a 10 bagger (and I'm not counting goulash). Both times it was in diamonds.

Got a strategy here, genius?

Sorry, you took Schenken 2♦ and 4N (specific aces) off the card at the last minute just before the session.

[ArtK78]

Strategy? I open 6♦.

So much for strategy.

[Echognome]

I'd much rather hold two ♦7s than Ts. Presuming we have 150 honors, then I will just open 6♦. We may get the wrong lead, etc etc. I think investigation on this hand will be difficult, even more so when we aren't playing with a regular partner, and even more so when we have a headache and want to log off. Maybe I can claim at trick 1.

[mikeh]

Well, it is the last hand, so nobody will be laughing at you for the rest of the session... so maybe do what a friend of mine did to me during a midnight speedball swiss many years ago, when drinking at the table during the game was completely normal, if not mandatory. He held void void Kxx AKQJxxxxxx dealer red v red and passed.

His LHO opened 2♠ and his partner, a much younger, foolish and slightly inebriated version of me, overcalled 2N. It went 4♠ 7♣ P P x P P to me

I had been worried that my hand wasn't good enough to preempt over 2♠ opposite a passed partner so had made my own 'tactical' call: I held, for my 2N, J9x AQxxxxxx x x

Tempted tho I was, to run, I left 7♣ x'd in. The opps got confused, as who wouldn't, and allowed us out for only -2. I'm only slightly embarrassed to say that we won a lot of imps on the board for reasons that are now hazy in my mind.

So the tactic of passing solid 10 card suits has been empirically proven, so far, to be a good one.

Admittedly my sample size is small.

[xcurt]

mikeh, on Apr 24 2008, 11:39 AM, said:

Admittedly my sample size is small.

rofl

[jdonn]

I stiill to this day open 4NT specific ace blackwood, and I still like it. Anyway I guess I'll open 6♦, hopefully if they bid a major it comes on my right so I can either pass or double depending which one.

[Apollo81]

The one time I had a 10-bagger my hand was AKxxxxxxxx --- Kxx ---. I passed in 1st chair, white/red, and it went (1♣)-2♦-(2♥) back to me. I bid 6♠, LHO tanked and took a phantom (!?!) sacrifice in 7♣x -2.

[whereagles]

6♦ seems like a good opener to me. Either that or 2♣.

[han]

Playing with Csaba I'd open this 6D. No offense.

[matmat]

if i had said that the previous hand was last, I get up and leave.

[mikeh]

han, on Apr 24 2008, 02:41 PM, said:

Playing with Csaba I'd open this 6D. No offense.

Looks more like no defence to me

[andy_h]

mm nice hand! I'll give 6D a shot. 2nd route is open 4D->5D->6D.

[pclayton]

I opened it 6♦. I thought about something funny like pass or 1♦, but it was the last hand and I didnt feel like being cute. Dummy flopped a very nice AQxx Qxxxx x xxx.

[neilkaz]

I also voted and would open 6♦ and for all we know it is needed to preempt the opps out of 6M !

.. neilkaz ..