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Slam invite?

#41 User is offline   hanp 

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Posted 2010-March-30, 02:48

Entertaining discussion with lots of useless comments. I agree that the hand is worth one slam try but as gnasher pointed out, a slam try with a void are rarely useful when you cannot show the shortness. I don't know how to hint club shortness without going above 4H.

lamford, on Mar 28 2010, 07:06 AM, said:

Stefanie would be most unhappy when I put down AJx KQx AKxx xxx and I commented in my usual boorish manner: "sorry, pard, I should have upgraded to 18-19 with the 3-card heart support."


Although you are of course right that less than an 18-count is needed for slam, this hand is not realistic for another reason: partner opened 1C instead of 1D. Had partner opened 1D we should have been more excited about slam. Moreover, we could have splintered with 4C.
and the result can be plotted on a graph.
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Posted 2010-March-30, 04:24

gnasher, on Mar 29 2010, 06:08 PM, said:

The basic problem is the methods: 4♣ should be a splinter, and if we played that it would make bidding this hand trivial.

Here I agree completely.
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Posted 2010-March-30, 07:20

I'll be happy to avoid slam once I hear 2NT. 2NT doesn't help me very much in getting the full value of my hand.

4♥ is plenty here.
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