A selection of hands from our No Fear Thursday club which I think are interesting. Please add your comments at the end of any post.
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All The Way
10th May – Board 20: Game All. Dealer West.
Modern bidding theory can
at times be rather too convoluted but every now and then a hand arises where
with a little bit of science you can place every card you need to know about in
your partner’s hand. When that happens, of course, it is easy to place the
final contract.
There is no need to go leaping initially on that East hand because a slam looks likely and when that happens you need as much bidding space as possible, so a simple 2♦ as a first response is in order. The 4♣ rebid by opener is the perfect tool for the job, a splinter bid showing a singleton or void in clubs with good diamond support and game forcing. Roman Key Card shows that all the main players are there and 5NT asks for extra kings outside the trump suit. Responses can be varied but a simple step response is easy to remember, so 6♦ shows one extra king – which has to be the king of hearts! Thus East knows his partner holds the ace of spades, the ace and king of hearts, the king of diamonds and acute shortage in clubs, enabling him to go all the way and bid the grand slam. What is more he can actually play the hand over in his head even before dummy is laid on the table: two spades, three hearts, five diamonds and the two top clubs plus a ruff in dummy!
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I still can't believe I didn't bid 7D after we did all the hard work of getting to 6D via 4NT and 5NT. I have given myself some lines as a penance: "I must do more carpe diem and less carping." "I must do more carpe diem and less carping." "I must do more carpe diem and less carping."
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I still can't believe I didn't bid 7D after we did all the hard work of getting to 6D via 4NT and 5NT. I have given myself some lines as a penance:
ReplyDelete"I must do more carpe diem and less carping."
"I must do more carpe diem and less carping."
"I must do more carpe diem and less carping."
Less carping would be good! We will cover less carping in etiquette lesson #12.
ReplyDeleteShould'nt the RKC response by west be 3C
ReplyDelete2 aces and the diamond K?
Of course it should be 5C. Mea maxima culpa. Even Homer nods.
ReplyDeleteAll Greek to me (:
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