[inquiry]

Playing with a pickup partner against a very good team, you hear your parnter open 1♠. You have not disucssed what 2[nt] bid will mean, so for better or worse, you show your diamond suit. The auction continues

Scoring: IMP

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West North East South
 -     1♠    Pass  2♦
 4♣    4♦    5♣    Pass!
 Pass  5♦    Pass  ? ?
   

Over 5♣ you used a forcing pass (2♦ was game force), and partner bids 5♦. Now the bidding comes back to you, and you have a lot of choices. Which one do you choose?

Ben

[pclayton]

Its the 4♦ call that sells me on 6♦. Pard shouldn't trot out 4 on a minimum opener, in spite of Axxx support. I expect every card in pard's hand to be working overtime and the double fit tells me to try for 12 tricks. AKxxx, Kx, Axxx, xx seems like a reasonable catch.

[Free]

5♥ for me...

[whereagles]

Not easy. I like the 5H bid of Free, but I'm not sure what a pick-up pard would make of it. Neither will I know what to do if pard replies 5S to it.. This is the kind of problem that depends on pard's style and partnership agreements. Which is why I think seasoned pairs would probably get it right most of the time.

I suspect of club singleton duplication, and I'm not sure pard will have two aces. After all, I can imagine some openers would bid like this holding

AKxxx
Kxx
Qxxx
x

Others would only bid this way with, say,

AKxxx
xxx
AQxx
x

With more than this, opener might have tried something other than 5D, after the forcing pass.

Since even opposite AKxxx xxx AQxx x, slam is far from odds-on, I'd probably pass 5D.

[Trpltrbl]

I got great hand, my question is about how to find out about Grand Slam.
I will bid 5♥, letting pd know I have interest, he already showed a better hand then minimum.

Mike

[Antoine Fourrière]

6♦, although it is a toss-up. Partner probably has ten cards in spades and diamonds and (I hope) a doubleton club with nothing lost in hearts, something like AKxxxx x Axxx xx. My bid is bad if he has useless heart values, namely Kx.

[luke warm]

5H is a nice bid, but at the table i'd probably bid 6D

[flytoox]

I bid 6D. Grand is asking for too much. 6 should have good chance.

[flytoox]

Hmm, what is 5N here? Since you guys think it is picking a slam in a similar thread, why cant it be pick-a-slam here?

[Fluffy]

Partner made 2 constructive movements, and that is enough to bid 6,the question is if we should try 7, and I am kinda sure we shouldn´t with a club loser.

6♦ better than 6♠... once day partner will have AJxxx/x/Qxxxx/Ax

[mishovnbg]

5♠
4♦ can be with slam interest(1) or to choose game with good ♠(2). Because of negative 5♦ bid after forcing pass I take (2), so I didn't expect ♠ loser. Despite my forcing pass p didn't bid slam, so he is min (he also like to bid slams ). My hand is only slam try already shown by me, so if I respect my p I can't bid slam directly. But I didn't show my ♠ fit with cover card there and my p can change his mind if I show it at relative secure same 5 level. This bid have additional advantage because my p will bid slam with ♥ control probably - need if you don't like to play slams less than 50% with ♥ loser.
Misho