[helium]

pass, and ecpect to make 11

[luke warm]

helium, on Sep 18 2004, 03:52 PM, said:

pass, and ecpect to make 11

oh i think 11 is fairly safe

i don't see many ways *not* to take 12 tricks, given my cover cards and partner bidding what he thinks he can make.. if vulnerable, i see nothing better than 6c... if nv, it's a toss-up, tho 6c is still probably right

[paulhar]

Fluffy, on Sep 18 2004, 06:52 AM, said:

so you bid 6 and you expect opponents to lead ♠, yeah they aren´t probably warned about that suit at all.

If the auction goes 1S by partner, 1NT overcall raised to 3, they've been warned about spades but I usually lead one anyway because it works more often than not. Is this much different? For all you know, the opponents might think that you would have bid seven without their "good lead directing" spade bid.

[junyi_zhu]

Hannie, on Sep 17 2004, 05:34 PM, said:

Lefty opens a weak 2S, and partner jumps to 5C.. wow, what's that??

And what's your call with:

AKx
xxxx
xxxxx
K

5C is a strong bid, but your SAK is likely to be wasted. Partner would usually double with strong minor suit one suiter except that he holds a void in opp's suit, which is very likely your case. This 5C should show a very distributional hand. something like:
S- Hx DAKxx CAQJxxxxx is possible. Still, you want to bid a slam with these cards, because the opener may lead a spade 70% of times which may allow the slam to be cold. for example, your partner may hold S- Hxx DAKQx CAQJTxxx,
you might not make this 6C at a double dummy base, but you are rated to make it about 70% times, because few would lead a heart from this holding:
Sxxxx HKJxx DJxx Cx after partner's 2S opening.

Exception also exists, if you know your opps is a very strong opening leader, your chance may decrease. But, still, it isn't easy for a strong opening lead to lead
a heart from Sxxxx HAQxx DJxx Cxx. So 6C is still a sound bid, and your chance might be around 50%. Also, once a blue moon, partner may stretch a little bit and
bid 5C with S- HJxx DAKQ CAQJTxxx, so you really want to play 6C here because
if opp find heart lead, 5C is already high, if they don't, you like the maximum result instead of 5C +1.

[EricK]

Hannie, on Sep 17 2004, 05:34 PM, said:

Lefty opens a weak 2S, and partner jumps to 5C.. wow, what's that??

And what's your call with:

AKx
xxxx
xxxxx
K

This sequence is a difficult one for a new/pick-up partnership.

Put yourself in partner's position and try to think what problems he may have.

He may be worried that 3♣ would be passed. He may be worried that if he doubles and you jump to game in ♥, then you will mis-interpret a correction to 5♣ as a cuebid. He may be worried that 4♣ would be interpreted by you as Leaping Michaels. (i.e. ♣ and ♥). These are genuine "technical" worries. Depending on what you have on your profile, how you played previous hands, and what sort of person partner is, he may be worried about giving you any decisions to make or letting you play the hand!

These issues may not be valid in a well-practised partnership, and the last one shouldn't be valid in any partnership, but...

So, whereas 5♣ should, IMO, be strong, and my hand should be strong enough to raise to 6♣, raising may not be the best move. If slam is there, I doubt it will be found by most pairs in most fields; but if it isn't there, we are probably going to be alone in our failing slam.

Eric