[inquiry]

In a very close barometer match, you are down one imp going into the last hand (of course, through no fault of your own)... :-)

You hold...

Scoring: IMP

( P) - P -- (1♣) - 3♣
(3N) - 5C - (6♥) - P
( P) - your bid

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1♣ 17+ any distribution forcing one roudn.. (sorry)

Your turn.

[OSH]

The opening was from Precision or similar?
I think I will pass.

[pclayton]

Its a clear pass to me.

1. Pard likes to make agressive (read: silly) bids over strong ♣ openers.
2. We have goaded them into a guess via 6♥. I don't sac when I've made them guess at a high level.
3. They may guess to bid 7, and ....make it.
4. They may go down in 6 (unlikely I know)
5. 7♣ is probably going for 1400 anyway. Give pard his typical: xxx, xx, xx, AQxxxx (Please don't say you wouldn't bid 3♣ here), and we are -2000. Oh, and we have an outside chance to beat 6♥.

[Free]

What is 1♣? What is 3♣? More info needed...

[TimG]

I'm not close to bidding 7♣. I've already bid more than I would have at the table. It's worked out with the opponents making a guess. Why try to undo what I've done?

I won't vote because 5♣ did not tell my story, it told the story of a different hand.

If you're going to bid 5♣, isn't there some obligation to try to mess with the opponents on the way to 5♣. 4♥ maybe?

[whereagles]

Yeah, I pass as well. We've done a good job already.. They're completely in the dark.

Let me add the following. Bidding 7C might induce opener to make a forcing pass to show a void, something I definitely don't want opps to do, since East might deem his Qxx as "little wastage" and bid a 7H on a finesse that works!

[Trpltrbl]

5♣ told my story. They "gambled" 6♥, and if I bid 7♣ they might bid 7♥ which could make.
I don't like to try to tell my hand more then once, it didn't get any better with the bidding.

Mike

[cherdano]

My team mates know we are down one, too. If they play 2/1, isn't there a good chance that they got no intervention over their strong 2♣ opening? Or maybe West could open a suit at the one-level and thus show his big two suiter below the 7-level?

In both cases, they may bid the grand on a finesse.
Or maybe they will avoid the safety play in hearts, taking the finesse to tie the match with an overtrick.

Passing seems so clear that I am sure 7♣ would have won the match

[Free]

Pass. If my p had more, then he would've bid 4♣ or 5♣, so we are going down too much in 7♣ imo...

[OSH]

14 answers, is it time to know the full hand?

[Trpltrbl]

It doesn't matter what the full hand is.
This is a theorethical question, probably based on a real hand since Ben posted it.
But maybe it might have been right on this hand to bid 7, since he did post it
On the next 15 hands it would be wrong, and bridge is a numbers game, nothing is a 100% all the time, very far from that.

Mike

[OSH]

Trpltrbl, on Aug 17 2004, 09:19 AM, said:

It doesn't matter what the full hand is.
This is a theorethical question, probably based on a real hand since Ben posted it.
But maybe it might have been right on this hand to bid 7, since he did post it
On the next 15 hands it would be wrong, and bridge is a numbers game, nothing is a 100% all the time, very far from that.

Mike

I don't ask for the right answer, I'm just curious why he posted this hand, what they bid and what the result of the match was.
I would like to know the story behind the theorethical question, bridge is also (fortunately ) a people game.

[paulhar]

pclayton, on Aug 16 2004, 09:13 AM, said:

1. Pard likes to make agressive (read: silly) bids over strong ♣ openers.

One would think he had played with me! I pass too.

[ritong]

my guess is ben posted this hand because -1400 ties vs 1430 & wins vs 1460.
i suspect his aesthetics are satisfied with that stuff, anyways mine are ;-)

[mishovnbg]

Pass. Playing with Ben 5♣ was already too high...
Misho