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#1 User is offline   sceptic 

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Posted 2005-June-13, 02:18

pick up p no agrements at all

can you make this contract and was I overoptimistic to bid 6


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West North East South

 -     -     1♥    1♠
 3♥    3♠    4♣    4♠
 5♣    Dbl   6♥    Pass
 Pass  Dbl   Pass  Pass
 Pass  
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Posted 2005-June-13, 04:13

Not even if you get ♥ lead and North puts up the King. You need 4 entries in the West hand so even if they cover the first round of ♥ that is not enough.
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Posted 2005-June-13, 04:49

6H was poor bid. Bid 5H, trusting partner to bid 6H with a diam control.

Gerben is right, you are short an entry for the dummy reversal even if they lead a heart and North covers the QH.
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Posted 2005-June-13, 06:37

Against propper defense, you'll always go down
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  Posted 2005-June-13, 09:20

Why not pass 5♣x and see what else (if anything) partner has to say?
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Posted 2005-June-13, 10:11

Pickup partnerships are always tough as you do not really know if partner is bidding 3♥ preemptively or as a limit raise - if you know your partner is a good player then it is obvious, but clearly it's never easy to tell.

So generally I recommend caution when bidding slams on minimum points. As here, you lose a lot when you are wrong and, even when it is right, you don't lose much by not being in it as a high percentage of the field will not bid it anyway.

But as Blofeld says above, in this case you have a simple pass over 5♣-X to uncover any diamond control opposite.

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Posted 2005-June-19, 01:16

Blofeld, on Jun 13 2005, 03:20 PM, said:

Why not pass 5♣x and see what else (if anything) partner has to say?

Or redouble. Maybe everyone will pass and you'll get a fine score, or an even better one if there happen to be 12 tricks.
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