[Aberlour10]

Holding in 1st seat (matchpoints, NONVUL, ops VUL )

Axxx
-
AQxxxxxxx
-

Is 5d bid ok for some reasons, or is this hand too strong for it so only 1d ist a right bid?

Thx for comments

[hrothgar]

White versus red, I'd preempt without a second thought.

I suspect that I'd preempt 5♦, however, I have a (probably insane) desire to open 6♦

[gwnn]

I don't know how to bid 9-4 hands

I can tell you I don't like opening 6♦ and I would like to bid 5♦ here, but I don't know if it's right at all.

[pooltuna]

tactically 5♦ and 1♦ are both logical alternatives. At other colors my preference for 1♦ increases

[ArtK78]

I bet if you polled 100 respected players, you would get votes for every number of diamonds from 1 through 6 (except, perhaps, 2), and maybe an odd pass thrown in for good measure.

This hand is so bizarre. Opposite as little as xx xxxx xxx xxxx you have a cold slam in diamonds. But opposite xxx AKQJT --- AKQJT you can't make more than 9 or 10 tricks in diamonds and, on a really bad day, only 8 tricks in diamonds.

I have no idea what I would open on this hand. It is giving me a headache.

[ggwhiz]

Bizarre hand with no real answer but I like 1♦ on these colours followed by 5♦ if pard shows no signs of life.

If the opps outbid that pard may be able to hammer them on the bad splits and soft cards. Much tougher to do if I open 5♦ especially if afraid they can run to spades.

Besides, maybe pard will bid spades and I can pull out a 5nt bid.

[aguahombre]

ggwhiz, on 2011-June-28, 09:00, said:

Bizarre hand with no real answer but I like 1♦ on these colours followed by 5♦ if pard shows no signs of life.

Besides, maybe pard will bid spades and I can pull out a 5nt bid.

Yep, not sure I would think of that at the table. If pard shows spades after my 1D opening, I will feel very well-placed. If pard bids spades over my 5D opening, I will have fallen out of my chair.

edit: This might qualify under "Interesting Bridge Hands".

This post has been edited by aguahombre: 2011-June-28, 10:37

[Cyberyeti]

Last 4-9 hand I saw, oppo opened it with his "exactly 4 spades and a longer minor" bid

Not unhappy with 1 or 5 at this vul, wouldn't consider 5 at any other.

[Aberlour10]

Sure its a bizzare hand, but I got it exactly so today and opened 5d
My random P was holding:

KQxx
J10xxx
K
Kxx

We ended in 5D-5H-dbl-p-p-p (2 down) having a cold grand, tja life is hard sometimes

[nige1]

Aberlour10, on 2011-June-28, 07:15, said:

Holding in 1st seat (matchpoints, NONVUL, ops VUL )
♠ Axxx ♥- ♦ AQxxxxxxx ♣-
Is 5d bid ok for some reasons, or is this hand too strong for it so only 1d ist a right bid?

IMO 1♦ = 10, 5♦ = 7. 6♦ = 5, .....

[rogerclee]

Just a story, recently in a live bridge game I was dealt Axxx AKQTxxxxx void void. I opened 1H and my partner responded 2D, and we couldn't make game in any strain.