[jules101]

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Cue bidding opps known suit (ie 2S) would invitational or better in pard's suit.

3S and 4C would be splinter.

But maybe these aren't good (high) enough!

[gwnn]

7h from this never-had-a76-before.

[aguahombre]

If playing Kickback (4♠) for hearts, then maybe I could start with 4♣ and then follow with 4NT as double exclusion????

We do agree that splinter then RKC is prepared exclusion (to avoid doing it with a 5-level call), but never thought about having two voids.

[neilkaz]

6♥ often it makes..maybe it is a sac or keeps opps from their black suit slam.

[ArtK78]

Unfortunately, this is going to be a pure guess hand.

6♥ seems like a reasonable guess. But it could be too high or too low.

For the first time that I can remember, I jumped to a grand slam last night. I held:

AJxx Ax AKQxxxx --

and heard my partner open 2♠ in first seat VULNERABLE! I didn't want to have a big accident by trying to find a way to force the bidding and then bid exclusion in clubs, so, after some thought, I just bid 7♠. This was doubled by my LHO, and I did not have the stones to send it back. After the fact, I learned something that I did not previously know - 7 of a major doubled vul scores the same as 6 of a major redoubled vul with an overtrick. Both are 2470.

By the way, the doubler held the KQJ of hearts and the AK four or five times in clubs.

[phil_20686]

Obviously you want to play this hand in 6!h, however, the question is how to avoid defnding 6!sx.

Might easily be best to start slow and walk the dog.

Could easily envisage an auction like:

P 1H 2H 3D
4S P P 6H

as giving lho a problem. It looks less confident than just bashing 6H.

[Fluffy]

a weak LHO will want to tell his story and raise at any level, you have to let him raise spades at a good level, so he gets the urge out of his chest. against good players this won't obviously work, and not letting them interchange info is the best strat.

[phil_20686]

Fluffy, on 2011-October-27, 15:47, said:

a weak LHO will want to tell his story and raise at any level, you have to let him raise spades at a good level, so he gets the urge out of his chest. against good players this won't obviously work, and not letting them interchange info is the best strat.

Sure, but when the micheals bid has probably done a lot to clear up the hand nicely for LHO. If I bid 6H straight away there are a wide class of hands on which it will be basically automatic to save. If I make it seem like 6H might not be making by bidding a bit slower then they will be less keen to save.

[jdeegan]

Pass. Opps are in a forcing auction. Listen and see who has what.

[the hog]

3H. I want to play 6H eventually, but lets give the opponents a chance to bid their Spades. I am worried about 6S over an immediate 6H.

[bigbenvic]

the hog, on 2011-October-27, 20:47, said:

3H. I want to play 6H eventually, but lets give the opponents a chance to bid their Spades. I am worried about 6S over an immediate 6H.

3♣ forcing, you know you're bidding 6♥, if you are worried about them bidding 6S, this seems the most likely way to stop them. West might put his parter with ♠ & ♦ instead of the blacks and not take the save.

[aguahombre]

Is 3C really forcing?

[paulg]

4♣, splinter and continue with 5♣ to show a void. Hopefully this will stop them bidding 6♠.

[pooltuna]

Well I see lots of goods plans posted, but the bottom line is if the opps bid 6♠ bidding 7♥ has to be near automatic. So there is something to be said for just sucking it up and bidding 7♥ now. This clearly leaves the last guess to the opps Also, Surely 5♠ is a possible call. If partner is allowed to bid 6♦ you can take the reasonable 7♥ call with fairly good expectation of making.

[whereagles]

Dog-walking situation.

3H, then 4, then 5, then 6. Then they dbl and I make it

[Free]

7♥, it's just a gamble...

[WellSpyder]

Feels like a toss-up between 3♥ and 7♥. I can't really imagine bidding anything in-between....