[awm]

Scoring: IMP

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Perhaps unfortunately, you have reached a game on these cards. Which game would you prefer to be in? What do you think of your chances in the game you selected?

[pclayton]

Well they all pretty much suck. Worst to just really bad:

3N. No chance. Drunks is a midnight game will beat this - even if allowed a revoke.

5D. Fragile shipments to Sierre Leone have less handling charges.I can see issues on any lead, except maybe a heart.

4H. Well, I'm "cold" if I catch RHO with AJ or KJ dub of hearts and I can see chances if RHO has Jx and doesn't coveror I have the H7 in my collection. Additionally, RHO may nap with AKx and duck.

[Winstonm]

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Which game would you prefer to be in? What do you think of your chances in the game you selected?

2D redoubled. I like my chances.

Winston

[han]

Darn, was just thinking of the same joke Winston! You beat me to it.

[han]

Given that Winston was the first to make the joke, I'll give a serious answer. 4H seems best. Besides the cases that pclayton mentioned, there is the chance that RHO goes up with AKxx. Not easy to figure out at the table: duck with AKxx, go up with AKx.

[pclayton]

Well, it should easy to duck with AKxx, especially if the suit is bid 2x on your left. I can't think of a combo where its right to fly, but going up is wrong if Pard has Q, J or even 10 stiff or dub.

AKx is a LOT tougher. If pard has Jxx we must rise, but with Jx or 10xx we must duck!

And declarer has a guess as well playing me for AKx or Jx.

Looks like a good candidate for the card combos thread.

I wonder why the rules of bridge award a game bonus to 2S x'd but don't a slam bonus to 2D xx'd.

[luis]

I pick 4♥ and I expect to go down 1.

[FrancesHinden]

pclayton, on Jul 15 2005, 11:52 AM, said:

I wonder why the rules of bridge award a game bonus to 2S x'd but don't a slam bonus to 2D xx'd.

Because you get a game bonus for scoring 100 points or more for tricks.

You get a slam bonus by contracting for and making 12 or 13 tricks. Subtly different.

If clubs were worth only 10 points per odd trick, you would get a slam bonus for making 6C, but no game bonus.

[awm]

Scoring: IMP

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Our auction was 1♥-1♠-2♦-2NT-3♦-3NT-4♥-5♦. This was a pickup partnership and south wasn't certain whether 3♦ was intended as forcing.

My feeling was that 5♦ might be a better contract than 4♥. If diamonds are not lead at trick one, then a heart play towards dummy will probably bring a diamond return. While best-defense (starting with a diamond opening lead) almost surely sets, I think you're pretty likely to make if hearts are 3-3 and diamonds are 3-2. No, this isn't a game I'd want to be in, but certainly I have been in (and made) worse.

The table result was 5♦N down one. A club was lead to the ace and declarer played a spade towards the king. When east hopped ace and switched to a trump, the contract was doomed. At the other table, the contract was 4♥ and a series of defensive errors allowed the contract to make with an overtrick (on the lie of the cards 4♥ really should be down).

Anyways, just curious where people would want to be on these hands. Certainly a better auction would end in 3♦ (south passing).

[Winstonm]

Hey! Hold on a sec! I thought it was only NOT opening light that caused these poll problems.