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All sorts of controls, no tricks

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Posted 2010-February-09, 03:38

- North bid a strange 2♦, but that didn't ruin the hand. He probably thought it was important to show a suit with at least some values.
- North continued to cuebid after partner showed a bare minimum over 3♠. This is plain aweful!

So I'd blame North.
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Posted 2010-February-09, 04:27

The_Hog, on Feb 9 2010, 05:36 PM, said:

So I guess you and Mike don't play picture bids? How do you show that hand type then?

What and why shall I show here? My partner promised 5 spades and 12-14 HCps.
Baring a highly distributional hand, we will not make 6 spade so often. I have 4 cover cards for him, no length to develop, no ruffing values.
Can he hold 8 tricks in his hand and bid like this? No way.
If he had bid 2 Heart instead of 2 Spade, that had been quite a different piece of cake. But he did not.

The pair reached the poor slam because north never used any kind of breaks.
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Posted 2010-February-09, 04:42

I blame North for the same reason as everyone else: 4♥ after partner denied a good hand. I would also bid 2♣ over 1♠ but really don't think that is why NS got too high. 4♠ over 2♠ is not something I wouldn't even consider, I think its a terrible bid.
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