[inquiry]

Scoring: MP

Submitted by: Inquiry

Bidding script: West passes, East will bid 3♣ (if he can) as overcall or opening bid, and west
will raise to 4♣ if that bid is available.

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[hrothgar]

We had a chance to get to 6♦ by North on this one, however, all of the E/W bidding made it very difficult to diagnose the Spade control.

I opened 2D with the North hand which systemically shows a preemptive hand with 4+ Diamonds and 4+ cards in either major.

RHO overcalled 3♣. We eventually landed in 4H in the North.

[rogerclee]

hrothgar, on Sep 29 2010, 02:56 PM, said:

We had a chance to get to 6♦ by North on this one, however, all of the E/W bidding made it very difficult to diagnose the Spade control.

I opened 2D with the North hand which systemically shows a preemptive hand with 4+ Diamonds and 4+ cards in either major.

RHO overcalled 3♣.  We eventually landed in 4H in the North.

Why would you want to play 6D, it seems like a bad contract.

[jdonn]

I doubled 3♣ then gib passed over 4♣ lol. I let it go, not knowing he had this hand. At least we beat anyone in a red suit slam.

Yeah Richard on a normal club lead 6♦ needs both hearts and diamonds to break and the spade onside. Not awful but I can't believe it's a favorite.

[hanp]

Yep, 6D is bad.

4H is a bit better from the north than from the south because of the spade 10.

[inquiry]

4HN gnasher/catch22
4HN TimG/TgoodwinSr
4HN sohcahtoa/east4evil
4HN hanp/jlall
4HN bid_em_up/TylerE
4HN bluecalm/redds
4HN ant590/cryzeejim
4HN Hrothgar/Free
4HN peachy/Ig62
4HN wackojack/flycycle
4HN olegru/driver733
4HN cherdano/rogerclee
4HN MBodell/Javabean
4HN awn/elianna
4HN Karlson/threenobob
4CE jdonn/gib


Well, other than punishing jdonn/gib, this hand is a push, so I have changed the scores to 6 for 4H and 0 for the unexpected 4C.

[jdonn]

Second 0...