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#1 User is offline   whereagles 

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Posted 2005-January-25, 09:20

Imps, all vuln, expert opps. You hold:

♠ AQTxx
♥ Axx
♦ Qxx
♣ Ax

RHO you LHO pard
3♦.....3♠..pass..4♥*
pass..??

*You are playing transfer advances, so 4♥ is a cue-bid, showing spade support and a good hand.

Your bid? By the way, in case you're wondering, 5♠ would show extras and a hand with no diamond control (it does not ask for help in trumps, rather it asks for help in diamonds).
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Posted 2005-January-25, 09:30

Ackward... how would your partner show a diamond control and a spade fit? Clearly not this way. I look at my hand, and look, I don't have a diamond control either. Let's see, partner no diamond control, me no diamond control. .... I wonder what I am going to bid... oh, I know, 4♠.. next hand...

If your 4♥ can show fit and diamond control, you need to rethink your methods.

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Posted 2005-January-25, 09:40

In this case, the transfer advance merely interchanges 4H with 4D. I don't how 4H can be the problem.. in a natural system, does

3D 3S pass 4D

show a diamond control 100% of the time? I don't think so... wouldn't you cue 4D on

KJxx
KQxx
xx
KQx

Or, placing overcaller with a different hand, on

KJxx
AQx
xx
Axxx
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Posted 2005-January-25, 11:35

4S. Three aces are nice, but you have close to minimum for your bid and a balanced hand.

If pd is still interested in slam, he can go forward.

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Posted 2005-January-25, 13:41

I'm minimum but I like my controls.

If I can find a 4♠ call in tempo, then thats OK. If I stew at all; I'll try 5♠.
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Posted 2005-January-25, 14:00

I declare myselft fixed and bid 4s. I'm happy to go plus after this started with a Vuln Preempt. Ok I might be missing six but....
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Posted 2005-January-25, 14:05

4♠, I don't like all my ♦s...
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Posted 2005-January-25, 14:34

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Posted 2005-January-25, 15:03

4S on the theory that if all partner needed was 3 Aces and reasonable spades for slam to be good, he could have bid Blackwood.

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Posted 2005-January-25, 15:43

whereagles, on Jan 25 2005, 03:40 PM, said:

In this case, the transfer advance merely interchanges 4H with 4D. I don't how 4H can be the problem.. in a natural system, does

3D 3S pass 4D

show a diamond control 100% of the time? I don't think so... wouldn't you cue 4D on

KJxx
KQxx
xx
KQx

Or, placing overcaller with a different hand, on

KJxx
AQx
xx
Axxx

I would bid 5♠ when I only lack ♦ control, not 4♦.
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Posted 2005-January-26, 10:16

Thx all. I see my table choice of 5S was somewhat optimistic.

In the actual hand 4S makes, but 5S doesn't.
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