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#1 User is offline   mtvesuvius 

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Posted 2011-March-08, 16:45



What now?

EDIT, IMPs btw

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Posted 2011-March-08, 16:50

Pass
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Posted 2011-March-08, 16:56

Check.
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Posted 2011-March-08, 18:38

Without much thought, 4♥ and raise 5m to 6m...
Partner, I don't play tempo signals...
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Posted 2011-March-08, 18:56

Pass.
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Posted 2011-March-08, 20:14

Am pretty sure that we are mirrored, and am hoping we have to lose a key quack. If we have twelve tricks then we might lose only 4 imps for 800. Will try a pass.
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Posted 2011-March-09, 05:09

pass as well
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Posted 2011-March-09, 05:17

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Posted 2011-March-09, 05:31

definitely overplaying it to say we're mirror-imaged. partner can easily be 3253/3235 or 2245/2254 in which case we can likely make slam. as for what we can get out of 3Hx - 5 hearts for them, maybe an outside trick and a ruff. possibly only 300 versus 920. at imps i think it's worth the gamble so.....

how to get there? not confidently. i reckon you start with 4H and if partner's 3244 he should bid 4S - getting sadly murky to find our 5m contract now. otherwise you raise 5m to 6.

at MPs an easy pass with the expectation of 500 versus 4xx.
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Posted 2011-March-09, 05:46

View PostFurlan, on 2011-March-08, 18:38, said:

Without much thought, 4♥ and raise 5m to 6m...


Exactly, without much thought. Partner can have ♦A and ♣AQ and a minor suit slam might still be off. I pass and hope for 500 when we have at least game and 300 when we don't have anything.

 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


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Posted 2011-March-09, 07:40

Pass or 3NT, depending on how I feel.

If pass, lead ♥A, ♥.
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Posted 2011-March-09, 10:27

View Postwhereagles, on 2011-March-09, 07:40, said:

Pass or 3NT, depending on how I feel.

If pass, lead ♥A, ♥.

What prevents you to lead the obvious ♠A?
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Posted 2011-March-10, 01:21

View Postwank, on 2011-March-09, 05:31, said:

partner can easily be 3253/3235 or 2245/2254 in which case we can likely make slam.


My partner tends to bid her 5-card suit when I make a takeout double --if the other choice is a responsive double.
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Posted 2011-March-10, 03:50

4♥, not raising 5m.
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Posted 2011-March-10, 06:40

OK so I'm apparently borderline insane :)
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Posted 2011-March-10, 07:13

View Postmtvesuvius, on 2011-March-10, 06:40, said:

OK so I'm apparently borderline insane :)

And I thought you are a poster who posts to learn, instead of just trying to prove right what you already knew :)
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Posted 2011-March-10, 09:55

Stop making me learn things! I'm going to Oklahoma.

*sticks head in sand*
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Posted 2011-March-10, 10:07

Pass
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Posted 2011-March-10, 11:50

Anything wrong with 3NT?

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Posted 2011-March-10, 12:02

View Postahydra, on 2011-March-10, 11:50, said:

Anything wrong with 3NT?

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If partner is missing one of the minor aces, we are down in 3NT. If she isn't missing one, then we will do better scoring at least 500. This assumes a responsive double denies 4 spades and doesn't have a 5+ minor suit, but wanted to show some stuff. If she had stuff and length in a minor, she would bid the minor. If no stuff, she would make no call at all.
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