Is there a better way to celebrate your first anniversary than to go down to the bridge club? I suppose there must be, but we settled for the club. Toward the end of the game, with no one vulnerable, I picked up this hand:
-- AK9743 KQT8632 --
I don't believe I've ever held this distribution before, and certainly not this strength. Before I say what happened, what's your plan for this hand?
I was still weighing my choices between 1D and a strong 1C when righty, the dealer, took those choices away from me with 3S.
This actually made my hand much easier to show. I bid 4N, which is a 2-suited takeout. When Z bid 5C, as I suspected he would, I leapt to 6D, showing my strength and making my two suits known. With Axx of diamonds, he had an easy raise to 7D, which was a laydown when my righty doesn't have any voids.
7H actually would've been the better contract (McKenzie held QTx in that suit), but bidding a making grand is usually good enough for all the matchpoints at this club, anyhow. Anyway, I thought I described my hand pretty well, and left the decision to my partner. McKenzie thinks I had a better way to show my hand. How would you have proceeded over 3S?
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Over a 3S preempt, 4N specifically shows the minors. This is because 4S is available to show hearts and an a minor.
So with your hand at MP I would certainly have started with 4S -- so that partner is certain to know that I have hearts...
If P bids 5H over 4S then I will make a grand slam try with 5S, 5N, or 6D. I would prefer to have stronger diamonds (AKxxxx) and weaker hearts (KQxxxx) in order to bid 6D, so I believe that I should bid 5S over a 5H bid by partner.
There are some other playable methods in these sequences, but they are far more complicated and require very specialized partnership agreements (non-standard stuff...)
-- Ex. 4S is slammish with any 2 suits and 4N is any two suits, non-slammish.
Hey Rob no fair , I was just gonna say that.
But then again you have suffered some of my bidding aequences too slam opposite voids, we get to the right spot but the children need hiding in case of long term mental damage ;)
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