[Fluffy]

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I tried 6♠ wich was doubled, but RHO run into -1100 in 7♥. I regret bidding 6♠, I should had realiced that AAK in their suits at this point weren't that amazing.

[ArtK78]

Fluffy, on Mar 25 2010, 10:00 AM, said:

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I tried 6♠ wich was doubled, but RHO run into -1100 in 7♥. I regret bidding 6♠, I should had realiced that AAK in their suits at this point weren't that amazing.

Seems to me that 6♠, while not the best contract ever, is going to make.

Is there some reason why one would not play for the KJ of diamonds onside?

[jdonn]

Honestly I expect a hand from partner more like his actual hand + ace of spades for his bid. I mean we were already too high (single dummy) before they even sacrificed despite holding a very nice hand.

[mikeh]

helene_t, on Mar 25 2010, 08:24 AM, said:

Fluffy, on Mar 25 2010, 02:17 PM, said:

bill, again, you think 4♠ is more encouraging towards slam than pass?, I really think the opposite, but it is worth debating.

But that means you passed in order to pull to 4♠. While mikeh was assuming that the previous pass was made with the intention of passing a double of 4♥.

No, helene, I wasn't...I frankly wasn't even thinking about what the passer of 4♥ intended....I was far more concerned with how responder ought to interprete it...in my book (given that we are told by the OP that we cannot assume that we have shown 3♠...as I read the post) it should be read by responder as liking diamonds and not spades (if we like spades...a suit we have NOT yet strongly shown...we have to bid 4♠). Since I don't like diamonds, for slam purposes, why make a call that says I do???

At the risk of repeating myself: establishing (for partner as well as ourselves) which suit is trump takes priority over fp. How on earth is partner supposed to know what to do when he doesn't even know what trump is?

[Siegmund]

I would have doubled the round before and it didn't feel like a close decision. The 2S bid has promised 3, the way I and most everyone I know plays, though admittedly not a good 3, so I expect partner to believe spades are trump and be showing his diamonds to help us decide how many spades to bid. Having a 4333 and diamonds being my weakest suit, if partner needs any help there to bid a slam he ain't getting it from me.

If you impose the forcing pass on me and partner preferred to bid on, I do have aces rather than kings in the opposing suits, so it makes sense to not consider this hand super-defensive. I guess I pass again if I've gone that route.