Some hands you never read
about in the bridge books because they only come along once in a month of
Sundays and when they do nobody has any real idea how to deal with them.
Basically it depends on how your day has been going I imagine.
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Month Of Sundays
10th May – Board 17: Love All. Dealer North.
Don’t tell me you’ve ever seen a hand like West’s before because I certainly haven’t. However one thing is certain: no amount of torturing partner via a mixture of doubles and cue-bidding of the opponents’ suit is ever going to elicit the information as to whether he has the jack of clubs and a spade or two. So you are totally alone in your decision and you can either bid 4♠ if you are having a bad day or 6♠ if you like the thrill of it all. Mark me down for the latter, although that choice would end in tears with the bad spade break and with partner being totally unhelpful, as they so often tend to be.
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Did anybody bid 6S then? With a pass from the partner and an opening bid from the opponent I'd go for 4S...
ReplyDeleteNick M
Two people bid 6S, one immediately and one after some huffing and puffing. But I like the bid because you need so little from partner. If you make the assumption that you have no trump loser - and there is no reason why partner couldn't have a couple of spades, or even one with the odds on a 3-2 break - then you just need something nice in clubs. Maybe they will lead the ace of clubs because that is what people do. And anyway on the run of the spades I can promise you that defenders will uncover any club guard because it is so difficult to discard well with virtually no information. If partner started with something like Sxxx Hxxxx Dxxx CJxx then slam is lay down and he would hardly open the bidding with that!
ReplyDeleteYes I felt almost guilty taking down 6S with my JS
ReplyDeleteI didn't huff and I didn't puff (I'm not a little piggy!) but it's a hand which I think I've contemplated on the most before deciding what to do. I couldn't decide on 4s or 6s and even though Partner wasn't helping I eventually plumped for 6s - well it was a one loser hand! As it happens the cards fell badly but I think it was worth a shot. Super Stew
ReplyDeleteMy partner bid the 6 and I applaud him for that
DeleteThose who stuck with 4 should be ashamed at their cowardice, and more importantly we wouldn't have lost another 6 IMPs !!!!!
CS
I applaud him too, and Super Stew as well. My only point was that you could never get partner to co-operate by faffing around because he can't possible realise the worth of the jack of clubs. People who just bid 4S are big cissies!
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