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Rate the bidding ... just shaping out?!

Poll: What do you think about south's bdding? (50 member(s) have cast votes)

What do you think about south's bdding?

  1. Fine, pretty automatic (30 votes [60.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 60.00%

  2. Ok, but just barely (6 votes [12.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 12.00%

  3. Dislike, a little too aggressive (6 votes [12.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 12.00%

  4. Hate it, insane (6 votes [12.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 12.00%

  5. Other (2 votes [4.00%])

    Percentage of vote: 4.00%

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Posted 2010-March-25, 17:57

Scoring: IMP

(4♥) - p - (4NT) - 5♦
(5♥) - p - (p) - 5♠...


4NT is RKC. EW are not used to playing together, but there is no doubt that 4NT is RKC and 5♥ therefore 2 without the queen.
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Posted 2010-March-25, 18:25

I'd like to know more about E, but I can't picture a hand for him consistent with 4N being for real...how many keycards does he think a white/red preempt can have?

If E is anyone with imagination, he is funning us with this 4N and I would be very, very worried that 5♦ would be seem by partner as a mess of diamonds and nothing like this amount of power. Fortunately, I have been saved by the vulnerability and the opps. 5♠ seems clear....red, I am not offering a free shot at 500 or more (well, I may have, but I am not doing it knowingly) so I expcet partner to move with the right hand.

I would have bid 5♥ over 4N


If rho is a solid citizen, I still bid but I am very, very afraid.
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Posted 2010-March-25, 18:29

RHO a solid citizen? He found opener with 2 keycards and didn't bid slam! I almost want to force to slam now even though it's totally crazy since I bet anything the "solid citizen" on my right will sacrifice. He has a heart fit and is messing with us.
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Posted 2010-March-25, 18:34

Rate the bidding of the hand with the pointed suits just about right. 5H the first chance would have been a bit much. Whatever happens next is final for the two-suited hand. He has done his job.
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Posted 2010-March-25, 22:59

Agree with the bidding so far. Partner can raise to slam himself we don't exactly have anything near a slam force hand....
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Posted 2010-March-26, 03:00

Agree with Josh.
and the result can be plotted on a graph.
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Posted 2010-March-26, 04:20

mikeh, on Mar 26 2010, 02:25 AM, said:

If rho is a solid citizen, I still bid but I am very, very afraid.

Actually I think of east a very solid citizen. The type of player that seems to always put down a maximum hand in dummy. But since the opps are strong players there are no guarantees of anything.
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Posted 2010-March-26, 05:28

Well perhaps he has messed with us, but I am sad to say it has worked. I will take the push to 5S anything else does not appeal and partner is still there, although it will not be easy for him. I think I have done what I can.
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Posted 2010-March-26, 05:34

It has worked? I don't think so, we would have been in a horrible position had RHO bid 5H instead.
and the result can be plotted on a graph.
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  Posted 2010-March-26, 06:53

Either E is playing a deep game with us, or pard is really that dead broke. I choose option 1.
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Posted 2010-March-26, 07:25

There's a good DOTW that Fred made back in the day about a hand from the Cavendish where he didn't think they could possibly have a keycard bid either...
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Posted 2010-March-26, 08:20

I like the auction so far. RHO has solid ♣ I guess? Whatever, we're not good enough to slam force.
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Posted 2010-March-26, 09:39

I wouldn't actually bid or force to slam on this turn, I was merely expressing my gross indignation that east thinks he can pull a fast one on me. Me!
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Posted 2010-March-26, 09:59

jdonn, on Mar 26 2010, 10:39 AM, said:

I wouldn't actually bid or force to slam on this turn, I was merely expressing my gross indignation that east thinks he can pull a fast one on me. Me!

Consider it to be a compliment.
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Posted 2010-March-28, 12:50

Scoring: IMP


Crazy stuff. I was south and partner chose to take a preference to 6♦ (thinking I might have tried 5♥ with a clear 2-suiter).

This is totally out of character for east, who is usually solid as a rock. Luckily for us east somehow forgot to double 6♦! Down 5 (I managed to lose 3*2 tricks) was still a bad sacrifice, even undoubled. :D

Most people will turn up with some really crappy defense for a bluff like that. A balanced 11 count is just wow.
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