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#1 User is offline   Phil 

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Posted 2012-February-10, 01:36

r/w

♠AJ5x ♥AQx ♦Ax ♣KJTx

1♣ - (3♦) - x - (5♦)
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FWIW, a natural 2♦ is not available for this pair
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Posted 2012-February-10, 01:53

If my majors were equal I think I would bid 6♦, but they are not, so 6♠.
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Posted 2012-February-10, 03:23

6S might look a little silly when partner is 3415, although it could still be a fine contract.
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Posted 2012-February-10, 07:48

I'll just dbl. If pard pulls, I'll jump it. Otherwise I'm fine playing this dbled.
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Posted 2012-February-10, 08:29

Depends what X is. I play it as negative - so partner can have as few as say 8 points with 4+ hearts, in which case I'll X.

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Posted 2012-February-10, 08:44

DBL and i dont think it is close to bidding on eventhough i know the result of this board.
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Posted 2012-February-10, 09:52

Double. I am going plus in 5♦x. Anything else is just a guess.
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Posted 2012-February-10, 11:40

double by now
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Posted 2012-February-11, 23:31

I don't like double at these colours, but maybe that is best. At least it shows values and partner can do something if they want.
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Posted 2012-February-12, 00:52

We have an extremely likely slam and we are vulnerable against not, I don't understand double. I mean our diamonds are Ax opposite a very likely stiff, and partner showed values. I would try 5N.
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Posted 2012-February-12, 03:29

I choosed to DBL 5♦ because i wld dbl 3♦ with all these hands below. Most of them has slim chance in slam except. But these are the hands pd has a stiff ♦, there will be some hands where he has 2 of them if 3♦ bidder is agressive at these colors. But i wont construct hands with xx ♦.

KQxx
Jxxx
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Qxxx Needs not to lose a ♥ + 3-2 ♠ or may go down simply by a ruff in 6♣ about %9.2 ?

Qxxx
KJxx
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Qxxx Needs not to lose a ♠ about % 17

xxxx
KJxx
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AQxx Needs to lose only 1 ♠ AJxx vs xxxx

Qxxx
Jxxx
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AQxx Needs to not lose 2 tricks in majors

KQxx
KJxx
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xxxx Needs ♣ Q on and 3-2 ♠ or 4-2 ♥ so they wont get a ruff.

Kxx
KJxx
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Qxxxx Needs ♠ finesse and no surprise ruff.

Kxxxx
AQx
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Qxxx Needs trump Q finesse/drop and no ♣ ruff in 6 ♠, or in 6♣ probably needs 2-2 ♠.

Txx
KJTx
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AQxxx Needs to lose only 1♠ Txx vs AJxx

Justin when u see the original hand u will laugh too. Other table made slam but they literally had to not lose 2♠ from AJ76 vs 98xx but that wasnt enough to make slam they also needed to find 2 way finesse ♣ Q.
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Posted 2012-February-13, 06:51

Despite the holdings which makes slam bad, I do not want to wrirte down just 300 or 500, so I join Justins 5 NT.
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Posted 2012-February-15, 09:28

We doubled and settled for a small plus against 5♦. Partner held 98xx KJTxx x Axx. The other table bid 6♥ which needs a little luck - I do not remember the auction, but I know that LHO did not preempt on Q x T9xxxx Q9xxx.
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