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#1 User is offline   bd71 

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Posted 2011-October-30, 21:16



Matchpoints.

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Posted 2011-October-30, 23:00

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Posted 2011-October-30, 23:01

:P 5♣. Too good to pass. I may make six, but I hate my stiff ♥ K and only having three trumps. Should have 11 tricks opposite ♣ KQxxx and another queen because of either a long ♦ or ♠ and a heart ruff. How to envision 12 tricks is harder. To some extent I am trusting the opps bidding saying they have at least some high cards. This is why I HATE my ♥ king.
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Posted 2011-October-31, 00:15

View Postjdeegan, on 2011-October-30, 23:01, said:

:P 5♣. Too good to pass.


I don't think pass was an option when pd makes a free 4♣ bid.
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Posted 2011-October-31, 02:17

I would bid SLAM
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Posted 2011-October-31, 04:29

View PostJLOGIC, on 2011-October-31, 02:17, said:

I would bid SLAM

Directly Justin? Would 4D followed by 6C not give a better description of your hand if you are going to 6 anyway?
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Posted 2011-November-01, 04:49

Description? What for? 6C seems obvious. I don't think we have 7 because if pard had KQxxx in clubs plus the ace of hearts he would have probably bid 3NT instead.

Still, I can live with 4NT.
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Posted 2011-November-01, 04:57

View PostZelandakh, on 2011-October-31, 04:29, said:

Directly Justin? Would 4D followed by 6C not give a better description of your hand if you are going to 6 anyway?


I am happy to play in clubs, I think we always have as many clubs as diamonds as partner didn't X 3H.
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Posted 2011-November-03, 06:53

Any time partner has KQxxxx clubs slam should be good as he is basically marked with 3 hearts.

If he has only KQxxx he needs a Q, but that should not be impossible.

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Posted 2011-November-03, 10:47

I'm bidding 4♥ on the off chance that partner has the heart Ace or Queen. It is matchpoints after all. I'm not sure if the next call will tell me what I need to know, but I feel compelled to do this anyway.
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Posted 2011-November-03, 11:02

I don't think we can ever find out what we need to be able to bid slam 'knowing' that it is cold or close to cold. We can assume decent clubs, so the key to the hand is his diamond holding. We just can't find out, imo. xx is good, especially if he has 6 clubs. xxx is terrible, but then he may, for example, have Qx xxx xxx KQxxx and still prevail.

All told, it seems to me that he is more likely to have a hand that affords a good-to-excellent play for 12 tricks than he is to have a hand on which slam is an underdog.

My natural instincts tend towards finding reasons NOT to bid, but I am trying to overcome that and my vote for 6♣ is part of that effort.

One can conjure up a hand on which grand has play, but I don't know that we could ever bid it with confidence and trying for it seems to be risking confusion and a poor result for little reason. Reaching a small slam will be a good result in almost any field even if grand makes.
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Posted 2011-November-03, 11:27

View Postbd71, on 2011-October-30, 21:16, said:

What's your call?

4NT (= three aces) :)
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