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#1 User is offline   gwnn 

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Posted 2009-September-05, 21:11

2NT-3H
4C-4D
5C-5H
5H-

here I called the director, there was a conversation in Icelandic between the opps and my partner and the TD and then the TD told me that my partner accepted 5♥ as a final contract (well I'm not sure what this means because I was the player over the second 5♥ bid). Before the TD came to the table I was pondering on what this auction could have meant. I was not even close to the truth (opps had no misunderstanding). Can you guess them?

edit: auction fixed now
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Posted 2009-September-05, 22:01

2NT - minors,
3H - i have hearts
4c - i would really prefer minors
4H - I have hearts
5c - p, please pick one of my suits
5H - i have hearts
5H - you have hearts
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Posted 2009-September-06, 04:57

balanced 21 and transfer to spades stopped making sense with the second 5 hearts, so I think matmat is right.
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Posted 2009-September-06, 06:03

Attempted retransfer interpreted as a cue.
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Posted 2009-September-06, 06:20

There was no misunderstanding.
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Posted 2009-September-06, 07:03

gwnn, on Sep 5 2009, 10:11 PM, said:

2NT-3H
4C-4H
5C-5H
5H-

here I called the director, there was a conversation in Icelandic between the opps and my partner and the TD and then the TD told me that my partner accepted 5♥ as a final contract (well I'm not sure what this means because I was the player over the second 5♥ bid). Before the TD came to the table I was pondering on what this auction could have meant. I was not even close to the truth (opps had no misunderstanding). Can you guess them?

2NT-3H 20-21;I have 5+♠
4C-4H I have a 6 card♣ suit; I have 4+ ♥
5C-5H I want to play ♣; I have 5+♥
5H- I prefer ♠

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Posted 2009-September-06, 08:11

2n 3h. 20-21 bal; tranfer to ♠
4c 4h. Cue for spades; retransfer
5c 5h. Cue again; re-retransfer
5h. You are playing this, one way or the other
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Posted 2009-September-06, 09:30

actually the auction was
2NT-3♥
4♣-4♦
5♣-5♥
5♥-end
sorry everyone.
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Posted 2009-September-06, 09:40

Oh, ok....so on the corrected auction, the second 5H was "choice of games" between hearts and spades at the five level ;) You stipulated there was no misunderstanding. You forgot to mention it occurred in prison.
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Posted 2009-September-06, 12:13

2NT-3♥ - strong balanced / natural, game-forcing
4♣-4♦ cue bids
5♣-5♥ - cue bid / signoff
5♥ - an insufficient signoff

In conversation, the director and the other players established that:
- If you accepted the insufficient bid, the other two Icelandic-speakers would pass
- If you rejected the insufficient bid, your RHO would replace it with a pass

However, they all seem to have forgotten that you were entitled to make a call other than pass.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2009-September-07, 06:56

strong balanced-natural 8+
gerber-none
gerber-1
signoff

5H went 2 down on slightly adverse distribution. responder "stretched" with 6hcp and a 6 card suit. he apologized for his flight of fancy.
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