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I don't remember the last time I knew after one round of bidding that three keycards were irrelevant, but here's a hand from an OFFline shuffle/deal/play unit game a couple of months back:
♠KQJTx
♥AQJTxxxx
♦------
♣------
Obviously, this hand has the STRENGTH for a 2♣ opener, but I chose to open 1♥. I was quite please to hear the auction go...(P)...2NT (Jacoby)!!. Yup, I opened a 2-loser hand with 8 hearts and caught partner with an opening bid and 4 hearts of his own.
Look how cute the response is...I'm missing 4 keycards, and I don't care about 3 of them to bid a grand slam!! Not only are the minor suit aces irrelevant, but because I know partner and I have 12 hearts, I don't care whether or not he has the king - if he doesn't, it's dropping.
Ended up in 7♠ after I got partner to show the ♠ace. The fun part of the hand was just seeing partner's 2NT response, and wondering if he'd pulled the wrong card.
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Odd Hand...Odder Response 3 useless keycards
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Posted 2008-August-13, 17:38
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Call me Desdinova...Eternal Light
C. It's the nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms.
IV: ace 333: pot should be game, idk
e: "Maybe God remembered how cute you were as a carrot."
Call me Desdinova...Eternal Light
C. It's the nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms.
IV: ace 333: pot should be game, idk
e: "Maybe God remembered how cute you were as a carrot."
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Posted 2008-August-13, 18:02
Isn't 7♠ going down on a heart lead, or was partner 84(10)?
No quite as good a hand but in a similar vein I had this one the other night -
♠x
♥AKQJTxx
♦--
♣AT9xx
5♥+1 when partner was 2-1 in my suits and was able to ruff two clubs and pitch the other clubs on his AK♦. Trump lead or switch (after the A♠) would hold it to only 5.
No quite as good a hand but in a similar vein I had this one the other night -
♠x
♥AKQJTxx
♦--
♣AT9xx
5♥+1 when partner was 2-1 in my suits and was able to ruff two clubs and pitch the other clubs on his AK♦. Trump lead or switch (after the A♠) would hold it to only 5.
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Posted 2008-August-13, 18:06
Sorry, my typo (or my cut-and-paste-o) I was in 7♥.
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Call me Desdinova...Eternal Light
C. It's the nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms.
IV: ace 333: pot should be game, idk
e: "Maybe God remembered how cute you were as a carrot."
Call me Desdinova...Eternal Light
C. It's the nexus of the crisis and the origin of storms.
IV: ace 333: pot should be game, idk
e: "Maybe God remembered how cute you were as a carrot."
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Posted 2008-August-13, 18:52
In a game I played recently I had
♠void ♥AKJxxxx ♦x ♣AKJxx
and opened 1♥, partner splintered 4♣, woot.
♠void ♥AKJxxxx ♦x ♣AKJxx
and opened 1♥, partner splintered 4♣, woot.
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