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A slam in competition

#1 User is offline   sty2000 

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Posted 2011-May-22, 16:00


How should we continue bidding on this board?

We play SAYC-like system, RKCB 0314 (if needed). 3♣ bid shows better than minimum hand (we bid minimum competitive hand via Good-Bad 2NT).

Please help, which bid by South is the best to investigate slam?
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Posted 2011-May-22, 16:50

View Poststy2000, on 2011-May-22, 16:00, said:


How should we continue bidding on this board?

We play SAYC-like system, RKCB 0314 (if needed). 3♣ bid shows better than minimum hand (we bid minimum competitive hand via Good-Bad 2NT).

Please help, which bid by South is the best to investigate slam?


Even if you take away the spade and diamond aces, slam is on a finesse. So I would probably bid 5D as south, he can hardly have a better hand than this.
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Posted 2011-May-22, 16:56

South can't KC with a void in diamonds, s/he can either bid 5♦, 6♣ or 6♥ the choice between the last two might depend on whether you're playing MP's or IMP's.

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


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Posted 2011-May-23, 08:18

The real fear here is missing the grand when partner has the ♠A and ♥AKQ, which must be a reasonable possibility, although tempered by distribution catching your tail?

The problem for me would be what partner believed 5♦ to represent, voidwood for ♣? I would bid 4NT expecting to take a chance over 5♥. Over 5 ♣/♦ I would bid 5♥, expecting partner to bid 6♥ with 2/3 of the top honours, 6♦ with the AKQ, highlighting the lack of ♣ honours.

Out of interest, would you prefer the insurance of 7♣ over 7♥?
bridge is never always a game of exact, for those times it's all about percentages, partner and the opponents.
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Posted 2011-May-24, 04:42

5D - but if you dont want to make a grand slam try bid 6C.

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