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Posted 2012-November-26, 06:50



Swiss Pairs, 1st match, not the world's strongest opponents, competent but non-expert field.

Assume 4C showed both majors. What do you bid here? 4NT would be Roman Blackwood (Not RKCB). 5C would be a first round control in a slam try, but partner will bid 5S over that.
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Posted 2012-November-26, 06:57

4nt if I can later ask for spade Q
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Posted 2012-November-26, 07:16

What would 6♣ mean for you?
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Posted 2012-November-26, 07:41

No published agreement :)

Sorry. I wouldn't know what I meant by 6C. A void and a grand try that has all first round controls I think I would mean, but that needs something extra to bid the grand.
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Posted 2012-November-26, 07:56

Something extra like queens in my suits perhaps?
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Posted 2012-November-26, 07:57

Yes, that seems reasonable. I'll post partner's hand later to see if you think he should bid the grand.
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Posted 2012-November-27, 01:04

6 ♠. With equal holdings or shorter ♠s, I'd expect pard to bid ♥s.
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Posted 2012-November-27, 01:45

View Postrmnka447, on 2012-November-27, 01:04, said:

6 ♠. With equal holdings or shorter ♠s, I'd expect pard to bid ♥s.

Are you feeling happy when partner turns up with Qxxx/Qxx/xxx/xxx or Qxxx/Qx/xxxx/Axx?
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Posted 2012-November-29, 01:10

I call 5♣, and I expect partner to be confused about what I have. After he bids 5♦ or 5♥ or 5♠, however, I will bid 6♠ and hopefully that will give the right message to partner: I am willing to force the hand to slam if partner holds nothing more than 4 small ♠, so having the "extras" of the ♠Q (or a 5th ♠) and the ♥Q (or a doubleton ♥) may be enough to push him to bid 7. I will be prepared to apologize if partner bids 7 holding ♠Qxxxx ♥Txx ♦QJxx ♣x and he cannot pick up the ♥ suit with no losers.
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Posted 2012-November-29, 12:23

Partner held 5 small spades and a doubleton heart, so 7S was cold. I raised directly to 7, but didn't like the auction.
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Posted 2012-November-29, 12:25



was the North hand.
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Posted 2012-November-29, 15:14

That hand should never bid 5S over 5C, that would be absurd.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2012-November-30, 11:12

View PostZelandakh, on 2012-November-27, 01:45, said:

Are you feeling happy when partner turns up with Qxxx/Qxx/xxx/xxx or Qxxx/Qx/xxxx/Axx?

Sure, because my partner would take time to think about why I bid 6 missing both queens from suits I'm known to have. The initial 4 ♠ response promises absolutely nothing. Since my partner would know I'm not a player who wildly bids slams, my partner would conclude that I hold ♠ AKxxx or ♠ AKxxxx, no losers in the outside suits, and something like ♥ AKJxx. My partner would after some thought gently place the 7 ♠ bid on the table.
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