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How can you show your interest in slam? Or maybe you're not that interested...

#1 User is offline   Hanoi5 

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Posted 2013-October-25, 20:35

Teams, Semifinal:


 wyman, on 2012-May-04, 09:48, said:

Also, he rates to not have a heart void when he leads the ♥3.


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Besides playing for fun, most people also like to play bridge to win


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Posted 2013-October-25, 22:42

If I'm interested in slam, I bid something other than 4♥ the previous round, probably 3♣. What are my agreements about 3♠ in this auction?
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Posted 2013-October-26, 02:41

He is right, if you are interested in slam, you do not step your foot on the game previously. Now whatever you bid will be something like lead directing or w/e. It will not mean "hey i was sleeping previous round, now i woke up, lets go "
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Posted 2013-October-26, 06:53

I expect almost universal agreement that it is the 4♥ call that produced the problem. At my second turn, over the X of 2♠, it is reasonable to expect the opponents to go on to 4♠. I am not so sure about a slam, but I want to help partner decide. As it went, over 4♠ partner passed but he has little to go on. I think, maybe, 3♠ is better than 3♣ even though I usually attend to Reese's advice "Bridge is easier of players bid what they have instead of what they do not have". If instead I bid 3♣ partner will take this as clubs, but he may think I am showing clubs as a game try. With 3♠ game is a settled matter and now, when the opponents bid 4♠, he can bid 5♥ to play, he can bid 5♦ with a stronger hand (and a diamond control), he can pass with nothing to say. and so on.

At any rate, having bid 4♥, I agree with the above comments. There is not slam try available.
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Posted 2013-October-26, 09:15

More agreement here and as agreed in my partnership 3♦ on the previous round is a help suit game try, at least treated that way by responder.

After 4♠ I would pass a double by pard, bid 5♣ if they passed and optimistically raise to slam over a 5♥ bid.
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