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Posted Yesterday, 11:51

 jillybean, on 2026-September-09, 11:22, said:

missed this

5♠ signoff if you have 0

6♠ will show 3
I don't think we are in any Grand Slam Force but the experts might disagree


Fair enough, although IMO the risk of West not reasoning and passing is greater than the risk that he forced to game in misfit with 9 HCP and a singleton in clubs.
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Posted Yesterday, 11:52


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Posted Yesterday, 12:07

Pass !
If we should be in 7 we will have great hand to discuss after the game.
“It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare, it is because we do not dare that they are difficult.”
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Posted Yesterday, 14:09

View Postjillybean, on 2026-September-09, 11:22, said:

missed this

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6♠ will show 3
I don't think we are in any Grand Slam Force but the experts might disagree

So how does West manage to open without any Aces and surely 5♥ not 5♦?
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Posted Yesterday, 16:41

 jillybean, on 2026-September-09, 12:07, said:

Pass !
If we should be in 7 we will have great hand to discuss after the game.


No hope in 6NT at MP?
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Posted Yesterday, 16:45

View Postmw64ahw, on 2026-September-09, 14:09, said:

So how does West manage to open without any Aces and surely 5♥ not 5♦?

I opened...East.
West "must" have 3 Aces for the 2/1, but they still have a bid, why would I bid 6?

Hearts have not been mentioned, let alone 5 of them.

This is getting out of sync,,, yes 6nt
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Posted Yesterday, 17:02

View Postjillybean, on 2026-September-09, 16:45, said:

I opened...East.
West "must" have 3 Aces for the 2/1, but they still have a bid, why would I bid 6?

Hearts have not been mentioned, let alone 5 of them.

This is getting out of sync,,, yes 6nt

ah WasWinM's hand threw me, but 6N looks fine after the cue-bids with West not having a ♥ ctrl, but 3 Aces.
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Posted Yesterday, 18:33

perhaps we'll see the entire hand before the next blue moon
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Posted Today, 06:30

Herculean effort from phone.

MP



At the next table Brink bids to 6♠ via a generic slam try without control bidding. He probably gets the overtrick, not sure if we do (depends how our South reads the auction).
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Posted Today, 07:46

:) Thanks for posting from your phone .
Where was this?
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Posted Today, 08:11

 jillybean, on 2026-September-10, 07:46, said:

:) Thanks for posting from your phone .
Where was this?

Posting unashamedly from the beach, but this hand was in our beginners game last week... I'll spare you the traveller. Pearls for swine :)
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Posted Today, 08:45

Please ask Brink how his auction went. ;)
Enjoy the sand and surf
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Posted Today, 09:14

View Postpescetom, on 2026-September-10, 06:30, said:

At the next table Brink bids to 6♠ via a generic slam try without control bidding. He probably gets the overtrick, not sure if we do (depends how our South reads the auction).


Not if south follows expert standard and leads a trump
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Posted Today, 09:23

View PostCyberyeti, on 2026-September-10, 09:14, said:

Not if south follows expert standard and leads a trump

Please explain
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Posted Today, 11:05

After a trump lead, the only entries to dummy are overtaking a minor suit king, conceding the overtrick. You cannot unblock both minor suits.
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Posted Today, 11:16

Yes no overtrick on a trump lead.
But is it expert standard here?
The minors look quite attractive to lead.
Maybe someone can imagine the Brink auction which would help.

The play in 6NT requires some caution too, do not make a vague claim :)
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Posted Today, 11:20

View Postpescetom, on 2026-September-10, 11:16, said:

Yes no overtrick on a trump lead.
But is it expert standard here?
Maybe someone can imagine the Brink auction which would help.

The play in 6NT requires some caution too, do not make a vague claim :)


Most experts lead a trump almost without thought agaist a grand, there is a horror that made when somebody picked up their partner's trump Q in a bad grand some years ago in one of the big championships
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Posted Today, 11:26

 Cyberyeti, on 2026-September-10, 11:20, said:

Most experts lead a trump almost without thought agaist a grand, there is a horror that made when somebody picked up their partner's trump Q in a bad grand some years ago in one of the big championships

But it's not a grand. And on a natural auction it doesn't look likely that a trump will save a ruff in dummy.
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Posted Today, 14:37

View Postpescetom, on 2026-September-10, 11:26, said:

But it's not a grand. And on a natural auction it doesn't look likely that a trump will save a ruff in dummy.


True sorry was thinking of 7♠, so trump or heart holds it
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