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#1 User is offline   dkharty 

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Posted 2010-July-02, 06:33

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Playing "vanilla" 2/1, can you suggest a reasonable auction to slam? Opps will stay out of your hair.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 07:10

1♦-1♥
4♣

And here you lose me. Maybe 5♥(6♥), maybe 4♠(4NT and later 6♥), but a normal North would simply bid 4♥ and it'll be kind of difficult for South to continue.

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Posted 2010-July-02, 09:40

1♦-1♥
4♣-4♦ LTTC
Slam Zone
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Posted 2010-July-02, 09:48

sorry I don't move from N over 4♣. at the club it would go

1♦-1♥
4♣-4♥
6♥ but not because of UI abuse; 4♣ would have been Gerber.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 10:10

Hanoi5, on Jul 2 2010, 07:10 AM, said:

1♦-1♥
4♣

And here you lose me.(snip)... but a normal North would simply bid 4♥ and it'll be kind of difficult for South to continue.

Same old story. The splinter has too wide a range. Could be 16-17 high plus the shortness, or could have 21 high plus the shortness.

Jump-shift to 2S, then jump to 4H, would show the huge hand, then North will get excited.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 10:31

1D - 1H
1S - 2D
4C! - 4S
6H
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Posted 2010-July-02, 18:56

Hanoi5, on Jul 2 2010, 08:10 AM, said:

1♦-1♥
4♣

And here you lose me. Maybe 5♥(6♥), maybe 4♠(4NT and later 6♥), but a normal North would simply bid 4♥ and it'll be kind of difficult for South to continue.

Agree with this--not sure why North would think they are in the slam zone after 4C. Is he really going to imagine there are zero red suit losers?
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Posted 2010-July-02, 19:13

dkharty, on Jul 2 2010, 07:33 AM, said:

<!-- NORTHSOUTH begin --><table border=1> <tr> <td> <table> <tr> <td>Dealer:</td> <td> South </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Vul:</td> <td> Both </td> </tr> <tr> <td>Scoring:</td> <td> MP </td> </tr> </table> </td> <td> <table border='1'> <tr> <th> <table> <tr> <th class='spades'>♠</th> <td> AQ </td> </tr> <tr> <th class='hearts'>♥</th> <td> T9xx </td> </tr> <tr> <th class='diamonds'>♦</th> <td> xxxx </td> </tr> <tr> <th class='clubs'>♣</th> <td> Qxx </td> </tr> </table> </th> </tr> <tr> <th> <table> <tr> <th class='spades'>♠</th> <td> Kxxx </td> </tr> <tr> <th class='hearts'>♥</th> <td> AKQx </td> </tr> <tr> <th class='diamonds'>♦</th> <td> AKQx </td> </tr> <tr> <th class='clubs'>♣</th> <td> x </td> </tr> </table> </th> </tr> </table> </td> <td>  </td> </tr> </table><!-- NORTHSOUTH end -->

Playing "vanilla" 2/1, can you suggest a reasonable auction to slam?  Opps will stay out of your hair.

1d=1h
4c=4h
now with a 3 loser almost 2.5 loser hand south must move again.

with silent opp I would just rkc, risky...but ....plain vanilla.

north can never play me for this hand after 1d start...

the good news is we are vul so north should not have zero.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 19:18

mike777, on Jul 2 2010, 08:13 PM, said:

now with a 3 loser almost 2.5 loser hand south must move again.

Why is it almost 2.5? Do you count Kxxx as 1.5 losers? It looks closer to 2.5 to me.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 19:21

almost but not quite enough to adjust .5 for honors..close..but not enough.
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Posted 2010-July-02, 20:23

1D-1H
4C-4H
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Sometimes you miss a more or less indifferent slam when partner has a max, that's fine.
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Posted 2010-July-03, 02:29

Slam's hardly cold. It basically needs both red suits 3-2 for a start (you can't pick up 4-1 hearts onside)
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Posted 2010-July-03, 07:03

1♦ 1NT
2♥ 4♥
take it from there :)
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