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Chew the Fat! => Sleight of Hand => Topic started by: kenberg on January 03, 2020, 04:14:37 PM
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I will first give you just one of the four hands:
♠AK862
♥A
♦T8432
♣AK
Your partner deals and opens 1NT (15-17, could have a five card major) Rho passes.
It's matchpoints, no one vul.
What's the plan, Stan?
Assuming you start with 2 !H, partner bids 2 !S. With four spades and a 17 count or maybe a good 16 he would have bid 3 !S but on all other hands he would just bid 2 !S.
If you bid 3 !D he will bid 4 !D.
So what's the call over 2 !S? And so on.
Ok, now I give you both hands:
♠QJ
♥KJ76
♦AK97
♣Q75
♠AK862
♥A
♦T8432
♣AK
this is matchpoints. Thanks to that !S QJ it is virtually certain that there are 12 tricks in NT.
How do you envision the auction going?
There is a slightly peculiar feature to this hand. 13 tricks are not all that likely, but if you want the best shot for 13, you want to play in your 5-2 spade suit, not in NT or in your 5-4 diamond suit.
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I see the auction going:
1NT - 2 !H
2 !S - 3 !D
3 !H - 4NT (3!H agrees to !D, and shows A or K !H)
5 !H - 6NT (2 keycards w/o Q)
I count 33-35 HCPs with two potential suits as sources of tricks, partner may also have a source of tricks. The !H cue bid plus all of the key cards make me willing to try NT over !D. I have a potential double stop in all suits, and if partner does not have the !C K, then those points my be elsewhere to bolster enough total tricks. I do not envision going for the grand in !S under any circumstances without a bidding breakdown.
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I see the auction going:
1NT - 2 !H
2 !S - 3 !D
3 !H - 4NT (3!H agrees to !D, and shows A or K !H)
5 !H - 6NT (2 keycards w/o Q)
I count 33-35 HCPs with two potential suits as sources of tricks, partner may also have a source of tricks. The !H cue bid plus all of the key cards make me willing to try NT over !D. I have a potential double stop in all suits, and if partner does not have the !C K, then those points my be elsewhere to bolster enough total tricks. I do not envision going for the grand in !S under any circumstances without a bidding breakdown.
This. Including all the comments.
I do not have the tools to find a grand.
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I think you need tools that look in the opponent's hands to find a grand. Diamonds are 3-1 so you do not want to be in 6 !D. I think after the transfer the 3 !D is simply to see if partner bids 3 !S.
I thought it an amusing hand. After 3 !D the 3 !D bid we find out about the diamond fit and then the trick is to be in 6MT rather than 6 !D. We were in 6 !S making 7, but the !H Q is doubleton so it makes 13 tricks in NT also. The transportation issues are perhaps a little tricky.