[Hanoi5]

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Should E/W reach the slam in spades?

How can they 'settle' the heart situation?

[Cyberyeti]

Not sure, is it exactly 5 hearts for the opening bid ? or can it be 6♥5♦ ? If it can be 6, with all this bidding, it must be a decent chance (2155/0652 possibly).

I don't think you have the space to sort the heart position out.

[BillPatch]

ATB I would raise directly to 6 ♠over the 4NT. 2 first round controls and 5 card support
should be sufficient for slam opposite a long ♠ hand that was too strong to risk a strong
jump overcall, even if the K♥ is wasted. Should I have considered that partner was
making an advance save, on what appears to be a partscore hand from his side? Note that if
third hand had the spade length instead of me 4♠would go for a number. Why did
partner attempt to preempt a preempt? If the other cards were to split more evenly, down 1
in the ♠ game throws away a partscore. While partner's 4♠preempt may have worked this time,
I am not impressed.

[hrothgar]

Hanoi5, on 2012-April-05, 21:11, said:

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Should E/W reach the slam in spades?

How can they 'settle' the heart situation?

Really hate the 4♠ bid...

[BillPatch]

hrothgar, on 2012-April-06, 13:37, said:

Really hate the 4♠ bid...

I am glad someone else agrees.It seems like a minimum 2♠ overcall,
not enough to accept a simple
raise. Even with that raise, a sac over 4♥ looks too
expensive to propose. Closer to pass than a higher ♠ bid.

Of course, with the actual advancer, high spade contracts are good. Switch
advancer and responder's hands, and 2♠doubled goes down more than
game, but avoids a telephone number.

[phil_20686]

East has at least an automatic 6S bid. I would probably have tried for grand on the way. If west has nothing but 8 solid for his 4S bid, and he could well ahve more than that, he likely needs nothing but three diamonds to make slam completely cold given the near certainty of the diamond lead.

West has about half a 4S bid vul vs not. IMO he does not even have a 3S bid. I am less prescriptive than many about the values needed for 4S, I think it just means "a hand that wants to play 4S and expects it to make", but west is not close to that. He has a normal 2S bid. Make it AKQxxx AJx x Kxx and its a 3S bid. A 4S bid is more likely to look like AKxxxxxx Axx xx -. in which case grand is actually a claimer.

[lalldonn]

Well I'm not blaming west, you can't say he should have done more!