Chamaco, on Feb 9 2006, 04:06 AM, said:
Come on Ben, pull out the story behind this poll, it can't be that trivial, of course most human beings would bid 1H....
Not much of a story... here... 1
♥ is clearly the correct bid, as the poll shows. The story, as it goes, was that I held this hand and decide to make the less than correct, but tatical bid of 6
♣'s. This was based upon a number of issues, not the least of which I just went for -17 imps on an auction that went 2S by me, dbl by lho on 9 hcp and five heart and four clubs, pass, 7NT by RHO which was cold (barometer individual).
Note, I don' t think 6
♣ is a horrible bid. In fact, if they fail to lead a diamond, it is very likely that my hearts might more than enough cover any losers we have in diamonds. If I bid 1
♥ and LHO passes, we can almost bet partner will bid 1
♠ making a diamond bid more likely if we eventually bid slam.
Anyway, the bidding continued...
1
♣-(pass)-6
♣-(pass)
7
♣-(pass)-Pass-(7
♠)
7NT!
For the record, 7
♣ was cold. 7
♠ was down 7 tricks (at imps), and partner had Kx of spades, so 7NT was down one. I would have won back the grand slam swing on lost on the previous board and even the 7
♠X would have won almost as amy imps. But the story, for what it is worth, isn't the fact that the we let the sure boat load of imps go away, or my "creative" (bad?) bid, or even my parnters questionable bidding *opening 1C, bidding 7NT as partner held six solidish diamonds and four clubs to Ace nothing.. can't misguesss clubs...
Kx
x
AKQT9x
Axxx
It was the interesting comment after the hand on my choice of bidding... :-)
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