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Posted 2008-July-01, 02:15

Playing against two very good opps you're faced with several high level decisions. Which way do you go?

Scoring: XIMP

p - (1♥)* - X - (4♥)%
4♠ - (5♣) - 5♥ - (p)
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* - 8-15, 5+H, not 5332
# - various hands, not just weak

your call?

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Posted 2008-July-01, 03:40

5♠

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


 rbforster, on 2012-May-20, 21:04, said:

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Posted 2008-July-01, 04:28

6♠

I would actually have opened this hand (at this vulnerability only). Now, as a passed hand, we can hardly have more. We would have bid 4♠ on all sorts of hands here, and partner is interested in slam. Difficult to imagine that partner has a hand off the first 2 club tricks.
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Posted 2008-July-01, 04:30

5S?? i'm considering grand here. if i was sure 6D was a cue i'd bid 6D
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Posted 2008-July-01, 07:06

This is not a good hand, in fact the King of Heart is a real bad card.
So I have a 5242 with 7 nice points which is not more then I promised.

OTOH my pd seems to have everything besides a diamond control, so my ace must be golden.

I won't blame my pd for 5 or 6 Spade and I go with 5 Spade.
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Posted 2008-July-01, 08:04

who said 5h denies diamond ctrl? 5d would be just plain natural in this sequence. i expect from p:

♥ void
fifth A or fourth AQ in ♠
fifth KQ or sixth K in ♦
third A or K in ♣

anything less would be a heavy overbid
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Posted 2008-July-01, 08:56

The word is "acrophobia", not "agoraphobia".

Agoraphobiacs fear open spaces (and certain West SF Valley Cities).

I bid 6♦. I could be bidding 4♠ on just about anything.
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Posted 2008-July-01, 10:49

pclayton, on Jul 1 2008, 09:56 AM, said:

The word is "acrophobia", not "agoraphobia".

Agoraphobiacs fear open spaces (and certain West SF Valley Cities).

I bid 6♦. I could be bidding 4♠ on just about anything.

leave it to me to confuse fear of open spaces with the fear of heights. all that cursing must have messed with my vocabulary.
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Posted 2008-July-01, 10:51

I like 6D. 2nd choice 6S.
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Posted 2008-July-01, 10:57

I think cuebidding here is overstating the hand somewhat. Keep in mind that:

(1) We have already shown some values by bidding 4♠ freely.
(2) The ♥K is probably not a useful card here.
(3) We are very likely to get weird breaks (LHO's 5♣ bid, RHO bid 4♥ at R/W on apparently not much).

In fact it seems close to me between 5♠ and 6♠; I would bid 6♠ but with no great degree of confidence.
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Posted 2008-July-01, 11:10

I want to be in 6♠.Wont hurt to bid 6♦ on the way .So 6♦
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Posted 2008-July-01, 21:12

For completeness, the strong hand was:

♠AQ87
♥A
♦KQ65
♣KJ87

We played in 6♠ and went off a few after opps found their cross ruff. Just unlucky I guess?
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