[miamijd]

ahydra, on 2018-April-12, 18:07, said:

Well, yes, that's what I thought. But of course today is the day you find partner with ♠A109 ♥83 ♦A106 ♣A8432, and furthermore partner's in on the joke and doesn't raise to 6... Opps won a huge swing because team-mates at the other table passed out 4H for -1 (should be -2, but of course they'd already lost).

I'm torn between looking into filing a player memo, attributing it to Mr. Hanlon and his razor, or blaming East at the other table for not doubling 4H (though that's not necessarily clear-cut).

ahydra

These sorts of things happen at bridge. That's what makes it such a great, but sometimes frustrating, game.

Bidding 5C is insane. I think someone above described it as a "New Partner Asking Bid." I concur. If you do bid 5C, I think partner should raise to 6 in a flash even with xx in hearts. How do you have a 5C bid if you are off all four Aces and have two hearts? Possible, I guess, but highly unlikely.

If you pass 4H as you should, I agree that it's a coin flip whether to X with partner's hand. There are huge risks either way. If you don't X, you may find that the hand is like this one. If you do X, however, partner is apt to bid 4S with four of them, and now North may X for a phone number when the opponents weren't making 4H.

I honestly don't know what I'd do with the East hand in balancing seat; what do others think?

Cheers,
mike

[PhilG007]

I don't 5 clubs at all on that hand. On the contrary, I berate it.