IMPs. I'm working from memory so I can't remember the vulnerability. East is dealer, and South overcalls 1♠ if East opens 1♥. Our auction is in the spoiler tags below.
How should we find this slam?
#1
Posted 2012-March-05, 03:33
IMPs. I'm working from memory so I can't remember the vulnerability. East is dealer, and South overcalls 1♠ if East opens 1♥. Our auction is in the spoiler tags below.
#2
Posted 2012-March-05, 04:44
wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:
rbforster, on 2012-May-20, 21:04, said:
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#3
Posted 2012-March-05, 04:53
1H 1S 3N p
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Opener will have hard time converting to 4H with mediocre 6hearts as 3N might be based on source of tricks and a stopper.
Give W KJ9x though and 3N becomes clear (er?) while slam is still laydown.
#4
Posted 2012-March-05, 05:10
Is say AJxx, x, KJxx, KJxx too much to ask ?
#5
Posted 2012-March-05, 05:16
#6
Posted 2012-March-05, 05:39
Uwe Gebhardt (P_Marlowe)
#7
Posted 2012-March-05, 06:30
Here you have
(1) Poor spade values
(2) Good cards to play in hearts
(3) Very goood cards to play in either minor.
I really strongly dislike 3N here. Its just trivial to imagine hands here where 5d or 4h is cold and 3N has zero play.
#8
Posted 2012-March-05, 06:46
If you jump all the way to 3NT, you should have a more suitable holding in the opponent's suit. 3NT does not run away.
I would have much more sympathy for the bid if West held QJ9x in spades.
Here if opener has something like ♠Qx in spades it could be crucial that opener plays 3NT
With 4-3 in the minors and enough for game double stands out.
Over a conservative 3D from East I would bid 3S and would expect 4S from East reaching eventually 6D
1♥-(1♠)-DBL
3♦ -- 3♠
4♠ -- 6♦
Rainer Herrmann
#9
Posted 2012-March-05, 08:09
dbl-2♦
3NT-4♦
blah-blah
6♦
#11
Posted 2012-March-05, 11:21
Fortunately, West has an easy double, intending, in many cases, to bid notrump later, thus expressing doubt.
Now the spotlight turns to East. I don't like 2♦ over double. East has a monster in support of diamonds. 3♦ is not a gf jumpshift over the double....it is invitational, and that describes the East hand quite nicely.
West's double didn't guarantee at least 4-4 minors, but it showed either that or the ability to handle a jump in a minor.
West's hand is certainly gf, and so the question is whether he ought to try to slow matters down...I think not....3N seems like an underbid, what with the good internal diamonds, the powerful Kx in hearts, and the black Kings, with the spade K promoted by being behind the overcaller.
I'd go with the ambiguous 3♠ 'rosy hue' cuebid, and now I think all roads lead to 6♦.
#12
Posted 2012-March-05, 12:29
West is off 5 keycards, obviously 4♦ raise works wonderful, but other bids such as 3♠, 3NT, 5♦ are good alternatives, even 4♥ if partner knows you cannot have 3 could be right.
#13
Posted 2012-March-06, 04:55
Antrax, on 2012-March-05, 08:09, said:
A matter of agreement (an important one, because it arises frequently)
My preference is that a cuebid below 3NT is ambiguous, when no major suit has been agreed.
Partner always assumes that cue-bidder has an eye on 3NT, frequently with right siding declarer-ship, unless the cue-bidder removes from 3NT.
Since I play negative free bids at the two level, many game forcing hands would start with a negative double over 1♥--(1♠).
Here the cue-bidder certainly must have at least tolerance of diamonds or a game forcing hand with clubs, but the suit not strong enough (good six card suit) for a game forcing jump of 3♣ over 1♠.
Rainer Herrmann