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Up against the wall in a 3-way Sowing the seeds of chaos

#1 User is offline   kfay 

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Posted 2010-January-16, 10:34

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You decide to open 2♣ for once.

2♣-2♠ showing an ace and a king, not in the same suit
3♣-3♦ stayman
3♥-4♠ kickback 1430 for hearts
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Probably not going to happen, but can you increase your chances of a double?
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Posted 2010-January-16, 11:29

You know partner has 1 key card so say you have 4 (4NT) then say you have the ♠K when partner asks for the Q, then just bid the grand, hopefully leader has an ace and thinks you've had a misunderstanding :P
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Posted 2010-January-16, 11:38

manudude03, on Jan 16 2010, 12:29 PM, said:

You know partner has 1 key card so say you have 4 (4NT) then say you have the ♠K when partner asks for the Q, then just bid the grand, hopefully leader has an ace and thinks you've had a misunderstanding :P

I bet that will increase your chances of being doubled - after your partner decides that 7NT is safer than 7♥.

LOL.

I have a couple of questions about the auction.

(1) Why is the weaker hand asking for key cards?

(2) Why is there a key card ask in any auction where the number of controls held is known to one of the partners?

There may be some good answers to these questions, but I don't see them. It seems that captaincy was trasnferred to responder at some point in the auction, and I don't see a good reason for that.
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Posted 2010-January-16, 12:27

Just bid 7♥! (Plsssssss don't do this without a heart fit partner)

If it was mps I would just show my keycards, and if partner bid 5♠ to show them all I would bid 7NT.
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Posted 2010-January-16, 12:50

You may already have gained heavily. At the other table they might play in 7♣, or your teammates might come in over 2♣ and find a cheap save.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2010-January-16, 15:16

Or, if you start to lie, partner might correct to 7NT.
and the result can be plotted on a graph.
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Posted 2010-January-16, 15:47

18 HCP an 2 suiter, how come you open 2♣? :ph34r:

As others said be careful with 7NT
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