[ahydra]

Fixed to include the missing ace!

Love all, dealer North

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Remember those adventure books where you'd get to pick a story by following the numbers? Here's one from tonight's club game... enjoy.

1) North: You have a choice of 1NT (12-14) or 1D intending to rebid 1NT (15-16). Do you upgrade? If yes, go to 1b. If not, go to 1a.

1a) South: Partner bids 1NT (12-14). Your call is? Go to 2a.
1b) South: Partner bids 1D. You respond 1H and partner rebids 1NT (15-16). Is 2S forcing? Your call is? If 3H, go to 2b. If 2 or 3S, go to 2c.

2a) North: Your partner bids 3H over your 1NT. You bid 3NT. Partner bids 4S. Go to 3a.
2b) North: Your partner bids 3H over your 1NT rebid. Forcing or not? Go to 3a.
2c) North: Your partner bids 2 or 3S over your 1NT. You've only played together once before and have virtually no agreements beyond the basics. You bid 3NT. Go to 4a.

3a) North: Your partner has just bid 4S after jumping in hearts. Your call is? Go to 4a.

4a) North: (possibly after some other bid) Partner bids 6H. This gets passed round to LHO who doubles and this is passed back to you. Your call is? If pass/XX, go to 5. If 6NT, go to 6.

5) LHO leads the ♦A. You make 12 tricks via a ruffing finesse in clubs.
6) LHO doubles and promptly leads the ♦A followed by the ♣A. Down one.

At the table I was North and picked the upgrade. Partner picked 3S over 1NT and jumped to 6H. I ran to 6NT based on "surely partner has the aces, therefore LHO has a stack of hearts and an ace" (plus the possibility of 12 tricks without needing hearts eg QJx AKQxxx Ax Ax opposite). Bad decision as it turns out. Would be interesting to see how other people manage this hand though

ahydra

[BunnyGo]

ahydra, on 2011-October-13, 16:42, said:

Love all, dealer North

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Remember those adventure books where you'd get to pick a story by following the numbers? Here's one from tonight's club game... enjoy.

1) North: You have a choice of 1NT (12-14) or 1D intending to rebid 1NT (15-16). Do you upgrade? If yes, go to 1b. If not, go to 1a.

1a) South: Partner bids 1NT (12-14). Your call is? Go to 2a.
1b) South: Partner bids 1D. You respond 1H and partner rebids 1NT (15-16). Is 2S forcing? Your call is? If 3H, go to 2b. If 2 or 3S, go to 2c.

2a) North: Your partner bids 3H over your 1NT. You bid 3NT. Partner bids 4S. Go to 3a.
2b) North: Your partner bids 3H over your 1NT rebid. Forcing or not? Go to 3a.
2c) North: Your partner bids 2 or 3S over your 1NT. You've only played together once before and have virtually no agreements beyond the basics. You bid 3NT. Go to 4a.

3a) North: Your partner has just bid 4S after jumping in hearts. Your call is? Go to 4a.

4a) North: (possibly after some other bid) Partner bids 6H. This gets passed round to LHO who doubles and this is passed back to you. Your call is? If pass/XX, go to 5. If 6NT, go to 6.

5) LHO leads the ♦A. You make 12 tricks via a ruffing finesse in clubs.
6) LHO doubles and promptly leads the ♦A followed by the ♣A. Down one.

At the table I was North and picked the upgrade. Partner picked 3S over 1NT and jumped to 6H. I ran to 6NT based on "surely partner has the aces, therefore LHO has a stack of hearts and an ace" (plus the possibility of 12 tricks without needing hearts eg QJx AKQxxx Ax Ax opposite). Bad decision as it turns out. Would be interesting to see how other people manage this hand though

ahydra

I don't understand, I was having fun with your interesting presentation (reminded me of books from 18 years ago) but my choice at 1a (I didn't upgrade) wasn't there. I wanted to stayman and bid 4D (transfer) over a 2D response.

[manudude03]

I'm a little confused about the result in 6H. According to the 6N play, LHO has both minor aces, and so the ruffing finesse doesn't work, and even if it did, you're still a discard short.

But anyway if 1NT-3H-3NT, if 4S is natural, then I bid a natural 4NT and bidding should either die there or perhaps pulled to 5H.

[ArtK78]

I have a little more trouble than most. Unless I am missing something, the opponents have THREE aces - every one but the ♥A.

So I really don't think you are making any slam.

[pooltuna]

I don't upgrade North and since we appear not to be playing transfers I bid 4♥ with South

[gwnn]

This was also a hand with this format:

http://www.bridgebas...r-own-adventure

It's better to keep only one hand and hide the other hand. In case you want to know about both hands' decisions, it's better to divide your readers with a good criterion, e.g. even birthdays are N, odd birthdays are S. I have been thinking of creating such a thread but never quite had the time/devotion to make a proper one.

[sasioc]

I didn't feel strongly about the upgrade (I never really know when I'm meant to upgrade and when not..). The fact that your 1NT rebid is 15-16 rather than 15-17 makes upgrading more attractive imo. On the other hand, the fact that you have no clear agreements over a 1NT rebid (although I think 2S must be forcing) would make me more inclined to open 1NT and make the auction easier. If that happened your auction might start 1NT:2D*, 2H:4C* or something similar, but whatever it is you will struggle to get to slam off three aces now.

You don't say exactly how South got to a 6H bid (you say he may bid something else first) but I think a straight 6H is incredibly optimistic and any sensible ask should keep you out of slam - the void does not improve your hand (which is now certainly not worth 15 points) and you are off three aces. I would not have considered pulling 6H - you have described your hand and partner has told you where he wants to play. Moving now feels like guesswork to me. You say that you thought trumps broke badly but partner can also realise that this is a possibility and pull if it is right - you don't know what his suit looks like.

[ahydra]

Wow, where was the spade ace?!

Partner must have had it. Let me fix that!

The auction was 1D-1H 1NT-3S 3NT-6H p-(X)-p-(p) 6NT-(X)-all pass

ahydra

[Cyberyeti]

To me, not an upgrade, nice hand but no aces.

1N-2♦(transfer)-2♥-2♠-3N-5♣(exclusion)-5♦(no non club keys in a heart contract) and it's decision time, you're guessing as to where partner's good 13-14 points are given that he doesn't have the A♦ and appears to be 3-2 in the majors, I suspect if partner held the heart hand we play 5, if I do we play 5 or 6 depending on how I'm feeling. Note it's played by the short hand so partner's putative K♦ would be protected, KJx, xx, Kxxx, AKxx would be fine.

Partner would not pull 6♥x given that he knows I have the club void and the 2 ace scenario is pretty likely, but so does the guy with the aces, so I probably don't get doubled.

6♥ has 12 tricks without any finesse of any sort, 3 diamonds, 3 spades and 6 hearts.

[ahydra]

How does one know 5C is exclusion for hearts there? Useful agreement if you have it though. Also playing fast arrival wouldn't 2NT be stronger than 3NT given that 2S is game forcing?

I came up with some system where after opener's natural 3NT you can bid 4C to set opener's first suit as trumps, and 4D for responder's first suit. Something similar would allow 4C to set hearts as trumps before going for exclusion.

I can't remember - perhaps partner didn't have the SQ - making it harder to get to the slam I guess, but then again the slam is no longer particularly good.

ahydra

[Cyberyeti]

ahydra, on 2011-October-16, 03:46, said:

How does one know 5C is exclusion for hearts there? Useful agreement if you have it though. Also playing fast arrival wouldn't 2NT be stronger than 3NT given that 2S is game forcing?

I came up with some system where after opener's natural 3NT you can bid 4C to set opener's first suit as trumps, and 4D for responder's first suit. Something similar would allow 4C to set hearts as trumps before going for exclusion.

I can't remember - perhaps partner didn't have the SQ - making it harder to get to the slam I guess, but then again the slam is no longer particularly good.

ahydra

2♠ not GF for us.

What else can 5♣ be, I've shown at least 5 hearts and 4 spades, I could bid 4♣ naturally over 3N with 4504.