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You probably weren't expecting the opps to get to slam in 3 bids when you picked up this hand. Now that they have, what do you do now?
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How much do you trust the opps they just jumped to slam and you hold AK AQ
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Posted 2016-May-23, 17:02
MPs, all vul.
You probably weren't expecting the opps to get to slam in 3 bids when you picked up this hand. Now that they have, what do you do now?
Wayne Somerville
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Posted 2016-May-23, 17:34
If 6H is cold, we're getting a bottom regardless. I don't sac with a hand like this.
My vote was to lead the A of diamonds.
My vote was to lead the A of diamonds.
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Posted 2016-May-23, 21:38
I'm passing and leading ♦ A not that I think it will stand up.
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Posted 2016-May-24, 02:35
Well so declarer has something like a club-spade twosuiter and was missing a bit for slam/game. Happens
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Posted 2016-May-24, 02:48
I would not have bid 2D
At MP I lead the ace of spades.
Rainer Herrmann
At MP I lead the ace of spades.
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Posted 2016-May-26, 10:41
Well, as you could probably have guessed, 6H was cold. It was sort of a pointless problem since you were doomed for a bottom no matter what you did. South's hand was void KJTxxx x AKxxxx and North was Txxxx Axxx QJT x. My opp who had the hand in the OP doubled, led a top spade and got confused in the play thinking I was void in diamonds and threw the top diamonds away to allow +1, but even 1660 (or 1430 for that matter) was a top.
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Posted 2016-May-26, 13:10
mr1303, on 2016-May-23, 17:34, said:
If 6H is cold, we're getting a bottom regardless.
Why should that be so? If it makes, perhaps a few others might bid it.
Anyway, I see no reason to consider this hand an exception to the general rule of "don't double a freely bid slam". The gambling leap usually means a void, and so I am not at all sure of beating it.
Also agree to start with double, and pull clubs to diamonds. At least, I assume that is what Rainer meant.
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Posted 2016-May-26, 16:03
Deleted, thought Bill quoted me.
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Posted 2016-May-30, 17:00
one could make a case that its a free x since this may be the only pair to bid slam. We have no clue how the bidding might have gone at the other tables so we have no clue how good/bad a contract 6h is. Best bet seems pass just in case this pair has somehow lucked into the right spot when the rest of the field got there through investigation. x might take a totally normal score and turn it into a zero merely because it feels bad to have the opps just get plain lucky. BTW if 6h does go down how much better a MP score do you expect if you x?
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