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#21 User is offline   gwnn 

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Posted 2011-March-01, 03:22

View Posttolvyrj, on 2011-February-28, 21:54, said:

I dont understand two things; why dont u trust u prd, who else r u going to trust after all prd is the only guy in the table that even pretends to be on u side.

I trust my partner but not if we haven't discussed the system and I don't have a good reason to suspect which type of checkback he uses. Moreover, I had a good idea of his level and I know that it might not be clear to him which bids are forcing after 2♣ nmf.
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Posted 2011-March-02, 15:52

The problem as you present it is that you have one shot to get it right. 6D looks like the best guess and average is never a terrible result.

We have yet to see partner's hand, so we don't know if 6NT was a reasonable contract. On Monday night my partner and I played a board where we could have made 7NT, but were playing in 3NT. (She misplayed it and lost a trick she should not have.) We were lucky, as the making 7 depends on a finesse. If it is wrong, the 3NT we were in can be beaten by at least 4 tricks. On our hand, 6D was unbeatable and if the finesse were right, we can take all 13 tricks. As I pointed out to partner, we wanted to be in 6D, not 6NT, even though 6NT might be worth more match points.
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Posted 2011-March-02, 17:40

partner's hand is KTx Qxx KQTxx AT (as presented in post #17).
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Posted 2011-March-04, 13:27

That's funny.. I would probably bid 3NT LOL.
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Posted 2011-March-07, 04:43

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Sorry but you didn't agree to play anything here with this partner and you don't trust his "general bridge knowledge" to recognise which follow-ups to nmf are forcing and which not (if he indeed plays nmf). You have one chance of setting the final contract, will it be:
3N?
6D?
6N?


If you don't trust his 'general bridge knowledge' it might be better to just bid game and not put him to the test of playing a slam.
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Posted 2011-March-07, 11:09

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If you don't trust his 'general bridge knowledge' it might be better to just bid game and not put him to the test of playing a slam.


It has nothing to do with knowledge. Both of them could be world class players and they still may land in something silly after nmf if they haven't discussed it before.
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