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IAC & Master Solvers Club / Re: 2024 JUNE MSC
« on: April 30, 2024, 08:05:36 PM »
A - X. I think I have to make it clear I don't have the club hand, so X give p flexibility while saying I was going to bid 3nt. If I pass, partner might think I have the weaker club hand, and they have no way to carry on with confidence.
B - 3h - Which is never an invitation to game hand, so p will know not to carry on. This should be even weaker than X, but we have a 9 card fit so should be safe.
C - 3nt - this is a gamble. I considered 3s, but p will never bid 3nt when they don't have a spade fit, so it might encourage a club raise!? I wish there was a way to bid 3d as a "tell me more" bid, but it looks too much like a club raise.
D - 4C I am not letting E-W make a long suited 3nt vulnerable here, so I am going to bite the bullet and bid 4c
E - 2nt - this seems standard, I must be missing something
F - 3H - only two hearts is selling the hand short, 3h is less than 4th suit forcing, so this describes the hand pretty well.
G - 4D - boy do I hate this bid. p can't be X for penalty right? right? so they must have only 2 hearts or less and the other suits. They are passed hand or I would blast to 5d, but just in case I'm leaving room for them to bid 4h.
H - 5d keeping it simple and leading pards opened suit and giving some count hints so that I am not sent to partnership hell if the diamond lead was the correct one all along.
B - 3h - Which is never an invitation to game hand, so p will know not to carry on. This should be even weaker than X, but we have a 9 card fit so should be safe.
C - 3nt - this is a gamble. I considered 3s, but p will never bid 3nt when they don't have a spade fit, so it might encourage a club raise!? I wish there was a way to bid 3d as a "tell me more" bid, but it looks too much like a club raise.
D - 4C I am not letting E-W make a long suited 3nt vulnerable here, so I am going to bite the bullet and bid 4c
E - 2nt - this seems standard, I must be missing something
F - 3H - only two hearts is selling the hand short, 3h is less than 4th suit forcing, so this describes the hand pretty well.
G - 4D - boy do I hate this bid. p can't be X for penalty right? right? so they must have only 2 hearts or less and the other suits. They are passed hand or I would blast to 5d, but just in case I'm leaving room for them to bid 4h.
H - 5d keeping it simple and leading pards opened suit and giving some count hints so that I am not sent to partnership hell if the diamond lead was the correct one all along.