[kgr]

Teams

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Your partner has shown a semi-GF hand in H with 4 or 1 aces.
What do you bid now?

[whereagles]

Now 6H. It's only 1 time out of 4 that pard won't have the spade ace, and even then he's a favorite to have at least the king. Seems easy.

By the way, why not 3C to show this sort of hand? 4C isn't semi GF, it's totally GF no? I mean.. you're at the 4 level, eheh.

[kgr]

whereagles, on 2011-October-02, 06:03, said:

Now 6H. It's only 1 time out of 4 that pard won't have the spade ace, and even then he's a favorite to have at least the king. Seems easy.

Did you read the alerts correctly? Partner has 4 or 1 aces of 5

whereagles, on 2011-October-02, 06:03, said:

By the way, why not 3C to show this sort of hand? 4C isn't semi GF, it's totally GF no? I mean.. you're at the 4 level, eheh.

3♣ would show a GF in ♣. The assumption is that when partner showed ♥ by bidding 2♠, then your semi-GF in ♥ is now GF.

[hrothgar]

I'm bidding 7N

Give partner 5 hearts to the AQ and 4 aces and this contract rolls home...
If you're feeling conservative, ask for the queen of hearts first

[whereagles]

I did read 1-4 aces, but had some lapse, thinking there was an ace out. Well, an easy 7NT then. If pard doesn't have the heart Q, then he's probably got 6 hearts.

[TWO4BRIDGE]

Maybe I don't understand this Multi.
Opener has either a weak-2 ♥ or ♠ or a strong NT hand .

If Opener's subsequent action showed the strong NT hand, what is the range ?
It looks to me that with your 16 hcp, the grand might be a laydown.

Edit: If Opener does NOT have the strong NT hand, then he only has ONE key card....

This post has been edited by TWO4BRIDGE: 2011-October-02, 08:21

[kgr]

TWO4BRIDGE, on 2011-October-02, 07:04, said:

Maybe I don't understand this Multi.
Opener has either a weak-2 ♥ or ♠ or a strong NT hand .

We have in our multi:
- weak 6c Major
- GF in a minor
- Semi-GF Major
- NT 22-23
- NT 24-25
....can sometimes get too difficult for us

[MrAce]

kgr, on 2011-October-02, 10:47, said:

We have in our multi:
- weak 6c Major
- GF in a minor
- Semi-GF Major
- NT 22-23
- NT 24-25
....can sometimes get too difficult for us

What do you exactly mean by Semi-Gf Major ?

When someone says that i would think opener has long good ♥ suit 7+ and shy of opening 2♣ for various reasons. Am i correct ?

If so then pd has something like Axx AQT9xxx Ax A or he has KQJ AQT9xxxx x x. Which one is more likely in your style ? If it was upto me, i would think pd has the first hand type.

But if second one is in your definitions of "Semi-GF Major" hand, or if you are not sure, then bid 5♥. No one sane should ask keycards and stop short of slam when pd shows 4 keycards. Have some faith in partner, he will understand your problem and lift with 4 keycards, unless he has extremely bad experiences with your RKCB abuse in the past.

[kgr]

MrAce, on 2011-October-02, 11:27, said:

What do you exactly mean by Semi-Gf Major ?
When someone says that i would think opener has long good ♥ suit 7+ and shy of opening 2♣ for various reasons. Am i correct ?

We play 2♣ opening weak

MrAce, on 2011-October-02, 11:27, said:

If so then pd has something like Axx AQT9xxx Ax A or he has KQJ AQT9xxxx x x. Which one is more likely in your style ? If it was upto me, i would think pd has the first hand type.

..but we play Namyats.So the second hand we should not bid the Semi-GF.

MrAce, on 2011-October-02, 11:27, said:

But if second one is in your definitions of "Semi-GF Major" hand, or if you are not sure, then bid 5♥. No one sane should ask keycards and stop short of slam when pd shows 4 keycards. Have some faith in partner, he will understand your problem and lift with 4 keycards, unless he has extremely bad experiences with your RKCB abuse in the past.

I wondered if anybody would bid 5♥..just in case.
Actually I had a distributional weak 2♥ and wanted to go to 4♥. I didn't know anymore to show this with 4♥ or 4♣ and did take the least logical - and the wrong - one.
We ended in 7♥X-3. At the other table our team played 4♠-2.
..clearly my fault, but 1% for partner because he had too much trust in me.

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

I have 16HCP, p claims to have semi forcing, we play slam, and the only question is 6 or 7.
I can count 14 tricks, ... 7NT.

With kind regards
Marlowe

[TWO4BRIDGE]

P_Marlowe, on 2011-October-04, 01:09, said:

Hi,

I have 16HCP, p claims to have semi forcing, we play slam, and the only question is 6 or 7.
I can count 14 tricks, ... 7NT.

With kind regards
Marlowe

Marlowe... Read the previous post ( #9 ) . The 2D Opener actually had the weak-2H hand.