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Posted 2010-September-29, 16:07

Scoring: MP

Submitted by: Hanoi5

Bidding Script: East opens a weak 2♠ and west, if possible, raise to 3♠ (alert: "nonconstructive").

Hanoi Comments: East opens with a weak 2S and West raises to 3S. E/W hold the minors which always present problems and in this case, with the 5-4 fit being hard to find, the final contract might be far from the best available. 6C, 10; 6D, 6; 5C/5D, 5; 7C, 4


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Posted 2010-September-29, 16:11

I thought that this was another interesting one

Our auction started

(2S) - 3D - (3S) - P
(P) - 4C - (P) - 4H
(P) - 4♠ - yada yada yada

We ended up landing in 6♣
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Posted 2010-September-29, 19:04

Clear 6♣ over 2♠, wtp?
I once yelled at my partner for discarding the 'wrong' card when he was subjected to a squeeze that I allowed by giving the wrong count with too high a card. Now he's allowed to pitch aces when the opponents have the king in the dummy. At trick 2. When he could have followed suit. And blame me.

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Posted 2010-September-29, 19:09

Han chose to double 2S which I like (I think the hand is too good to bid 3D, and even if partner bids 4H you can correct it to 5D pretty comfortably so it doesn't seem all that risky).
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Posted 2010-September-29, 19:17

Yeah, it was actually a X by South (me), then 4♦, then after partner made a gutsy 5♦ bid I tried 6♣ and got lucky. Is that a viable sequence or should 6♣ be forcing?
I once yelled at my partner for discarding the 'wrong' card when he was subjected to a squeeze that I allowed by giving the wrong count with too high a card. Now he's allowed to pitch aces when the opponents have the king in the dummy. At trick 2. When he could have followed suit. And blame me.

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Posted 2010-September-30, 01:45

I wasn't happy when I bid 3♦, but I was when the auction didn't die obviously. It's close between Dbl and 3♦ imo, since I had much distribution and a void ♠ I thought that either LHO would raise, or I'd have a misfit with partner, so it's safe enough.
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Posted 2010-September-30, 02:16

Everything is viable in love, war and bidding contests.

Having said that, I think that 3D is so far removed from good bridge that I would still call it absurd. I also saw somebody bid 3S which also doesn't seem right, the diamond suit is too open and the clubs are too strong.

After my double and 4D Justin had a really awkward decision. He bid 4H. Can't say I like it, but I don't like any of the alternatives either. Now I chose 5C and he had an easy 6C.
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Posted 2010-September-30, 03:11

hanp, on Sep 30 2010, 09:16 AM, said:

After my double and 4D Justin had a really awkward decision. He bid 4H. Can't say I like it, but I don't like any of the alternatives either. Now I chose 5C and he had an easy 6C.

I thought this was a very good auction, one of the best I saw in the competition.

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Posted 2010-September-30, 03:30

It's not that I know a better sequence, these two hands just were very awkward.
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Posted 2010-September-30, 09:32

Inquiry what did I do, I forget? I'm pretty sure I ended in diamonds though.
Please let me know about any questions or interest or bug reports about GIB.
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Posted 2010-September-30, 20:12

jdonn, on Sep 30 2010, 10:32 AM, said:

Inquiry what did I do, I forget? I'm pretty sure I ended in diamonds though.

6CS MBodell/Javabean
6CS sohcahtoa/east4evil
6CS Hrothgar/Free
6CS hanp/jlall
6CN TimG/TgoodwinSr
6CN bid_em_up/TylerE
6DS cherdano/rogerclee
6DS jdonn/gib
5CS olegru/driver733
5DS peachy/Ig62
5DS gnasher/catch22
5DS awn/elianna
5DS ant590/cryzeejim
5DS wackojack/flycycle
5Ds Karlson/threenobob
4HN bluecalm/redds


Scores are:
6C: 10
6D: 6
5C: 5
5D: 3
4H: 1
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Posted 2010-September-30, 23:56

It seems strange to me when a diamond slam which is less than 50% outscores the diamond game by so much.
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