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#1 User is offline   rduran1216 

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Posted 2011-April-30, 09:20






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Posted 2011-April-30, 10:27

6♠ should show (I hope!) extra length in at least spades, and a first round ♥ control
I once yelled at my partner for discarding the 'wrong' card when he was subjected to a squeeze that I allowed by giving the wrong count with too high a card. Now he's allowed to pitch aces when the opponents have the king in the dummy. At trick 2. When he could have followed suit. And blame me.

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Posted 2011-April-30, 12:38

Pard's dbl just shows he has no heart void. Which is natural, since you're the one who has it :)

Given pard's strong bidding, it's not too much of a prayer to ask for the club ace across, so I'll try 7♦.
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Posted 2011-April-30, 13:34

I would have bid 7♦ a round earlier - I seem to have rather more than I might have had for 4♦. However, passing 6♦ has worked well, because we now have more information.

Partner's double doesn't just discourage 7♦, it also discourages 6♠. He should be able to pass with something like ♠Kx, suggesting that we try 6♠.

Since he didn't do that, I think he has something like Jx x Q10xxx AQxxx, or a similar hand with a singleton spade, and we're getting 800-1100 from 6♥. 7♦ making will be worth about twice that, so it seems good odds to bid 7♦. In any case, they may take insurance in 7♥.
... 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 2011-May-01, 15:04

View Postgnasher, on 2011-April-30, 13:34, said:

I would have bid 7♦ a round earlier.


As FrancesHinden might say: this.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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Posted 2011-May-02, 17:12

what han said
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