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Bid these hands, please We got overboard, but got lucky

#21 User is offline   gnasher 

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Posted 2014-March-13, 07:02

 Zelandakh, on 2014-March-13, 06:54, said:

Would you splinter with a singleton ♠A or ♠K here, Andy?

Probably, yes. The reason for not splintering with a singleton ace or king is that it may be useful opposite some strength in partner's hand. In this sequence slam is likely to depend on the solidity of the heart and club suits, not on how well our spade honours mesh.

But even if you wouldn't splinter with that hand-type, it would be very wasteful to reserve the delayed 3♥ bid to show it. If you don't want to splinter, you may be able to bid 2♠ then 3♥ then 4♥.
... 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 2014-March-14, 20:11

1♣ - 1♥
3♦ - 3♥
4♣ - 5♣
6♣

Responder would see Clubs fit on opener's second bid, but would bid Hearts again anyway since his bid is forcing. Opener would suspect a Hearts fit, but would rebid his Clubs.
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Posted 2014-March-15, 05:18

1♣ - 2♥ (weak)
2♠ (ask) - 3♦ (singleton)
4♣ - 4♥
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