[manudude03]

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What's your call here? Strong opponents, unknown partner but is known by opps and seems to be playing well.

[whereagles]

Dbl. If pard bids spades, pull to 6♣. You only need the spade king and a bit of luck to make it.

If pard passes the dbl, so much the better.

[Fluffy]

I will stick to Nuno's plan as well, passing 5♠ is also an option but partner miht lack the entries needed to draw trumps and make it anyway, so go for a bigger bonus.

[Hanoi5]

I chose double but if partner passes I'm gonna feel pretty bad till I see we have no slam. This is a hand where bidding 6♥ could turn into a real disaster or a call to the Director and a scandal. I want to bid 6♣, but it might just be too much, 5NT might fetch 6♠ from partner but both these calls have some merit though. I'm not playing 5♠ if that's what partner bids but really, would partner bid with only two kings at this level? I regret the double everytime I think about it.

[pooltuna]

why X 5♦ when you can X 6♦ bid 6♣ and make them take insurance

[aguahombre]

Dejavu, Justin?

[Fluffy]

Hanoi5, on 2011-May-18, 06:41, said:

5NT might fetch 6♠ from partner but both these calls have some merit though. I'm not playing 5♠ if that's what partner bids but really, would partner bid with only two kings at this level? I regret the double everytime I think about it.

Your partner is forbidden to bid 6♠!, here is how 2 places to play works: You promise 2 places, and he must pick another 2. He bids his lowest pick, and you pass or correct. The lowest possible strain he picks cannot be spades.

[SimonFa]

Hanoi5, on 2011-May-18, 06:41, said:

I chose double but if partner passes I'm gonna feel pretty bad till I see we have no slam. This is a hand where bidding 6♥ could turn into a real disaster or a call to the Director and a scandal. I want to bid 6♣, but it might just be too much, 5NT might fetch 6♠ from partner but both these calls have some merit though. I'm not playing 5♠ if that's what partner bids but really, would partner bid with only two kings at this level? I regret the double everytime I think about it.

For my education could you explain why 6♥ would be disaster a call to the Director and a scandal, please?

Thanks in advance,

Simon

[ArtK78]

SimonFa, on 2011-May-18, 13:20, said:

For my education could you explain why 6♥ would be disaster a call to the Director and a scandal, please?

Thanks in advance,

Simon

This is a reference to a hand which occurred in last year's Spingold which caused a major scandal on these Fora and in the Bridge community in general. Without getting into the persons involved, in direct seat over a preempt a player jumped to slam in a 4-card suit rather than his near-solid 6-card suit. It turned out that the slam in the 4-card suit was cold (and virtually unbiddable) and the slam in the 6-card suit had no play. Ever since then, a number of posters (myself included) have commented about the possibility of jumping to slam in a 4-card suit whenever a remotely similar situation presented itself on these Fora.

[Fluffy]

its an old forum joke Simon, if you have luck, some guy with no name, or perhaps another will find you the post with the history

[SimonFa]

Thanks.I thought I was missing something about UI or similar.

[manudude03]

If you need to read more about that joke:

http://www.bridgebas...40621-good-bid/


Anyway on this board, 6H makes..... but so does 6C (and 7C). Partner's hand is QJ9xxx Kxxx void xxx. I bid 6C which was passed out.

[mfa1010]

manudude03, on 2011-May-18, 16:44, said:

Partner's hand is QJ9xxx Kxxx void xxx. I bid 6C...

I think that is very reasonable, but to be fair doubling should work also. Partner should take it out to 5♠ with his decent hand and a diamond void. We would then convert to 6♣.

[Fluffy]

mfa1010, on 2011-May-18, 18:33, said:

I think that is very reasonable, but to be fair doubling should work also. Partner should take it out to 5♠ with his decent hand and a diamond void. We would then convert to 6♣.

And over 6♣ he...

I think I'd pass, but I don't find 6♥ unreasonable, 6♠ is not very appealing but also crosses my mind.

Spades produce discards for slow heart losers, that's the reason why I'd pass 6♣.