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#1 User is offline   dcohio 

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Posted 2010-January-16, 17:10

Never seen this one before:

R/R N dealer, mps:

1-(2)-3-(4)
5-(x)-AP
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Posted 2010-January-16, 17:43

I've seen 2-3, 4-5, 6. yours is cooler though.

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http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?sho...ndpost&p=299937
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Posted 2010-January-16, 17:58

1 2 3 4 5 in a minor is the most quoted 'cool' auction people report, it happens all the time. 1 2 3 4 5 6 is rare and i have never seen outside mycrofts post.

The coolest I have managed is
1 2
2 3
3 3NT
4 5
5 6

Where 1 was natural but 2 3 4 and 5 were all artificial and said nothing about spades.
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Posted 2010-January-16, 18:03

Now that's pretty neat Jdonn... but what are the meanings??
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Posted 2010-January-16, 19:28

Palo Marino and Daniele Pagani bid on te european youth championship Viena 98:

1-2 (strong-many controls)
3-4 (nat)
5-6 (5 just for fun)
7-pass
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Posted 2010-January-17, 10:59

dcohio, on Jan 16 2010, 07:03 PM, said:

Now that's pretty neat Jdonn... but what are the meanings??

2 = 4+ hearts
3 = non-serious slam try in hearts
4, 5 = keycard for hearts
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Posted 2010-January-17, 14:40

My coolest-ever auction was cool in the opposite way:

(3) - 4 - (5) - 6.

I was the 4H bidder, raised my p to 7 because I had the ace of clubs, got doubled, and partner made it when RHO guessed wrong whether to lead a spade or a diamond.

Happened in a hand-shuffled sectional team game. We called the director over to look at the auction. He copied the hand down, saying "Im gonna show this to the people who complain computer-dealt hands are too weird."
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Posted 2010-January-17, 15:16

The Viking club produces some funny ones for us. We had this sequence recently but there have been others also I don't remember now.

1-1
1-1
1NT-2
2-2
2-pass

Responder has shown a shapely invitational hand with long spades opposite opener's 19-21NT.
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Posted 2010-January-18, 12:59

I managed this variant on "everyone bids a minor" at a sectional a couple month ago:

(1D) P (P) 2D
(X) 3D (5D) 6D
(P) 6H (AP)

Making 7 on the wrong lead, but cold for 6. Partner had sandbagged with 8 solid clubs, then never bid the suit.
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Posted 2010-January-19, 03:24

This weekend my opps had a nice one:
1 - 2
2 - 2
2 - 4
4 - 4
4 - 5
pass

2-level bids were seminatural, 4-level bids were cue
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Posted 2010-January-19, 07:11

At the club we once had this nonremarkable auction:

1-p-1-x
xx-2-2-p
p-p

The funny thing was that on the next board we had the exact same auction.
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