[wank]

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we bid the first way to 5♦, making no effort to bid our good looking slam. fortunately opp team made even less effort to investigate than we did and went off in the mayor's despite south making a free 3♣ bid.

what's to be done?

oops corrected bidding

[mikeh]

I'm not sure there is a lot of blame to go around. South might choose 3N over 3♠ and now, when partner pulls to 4♦, this shows primary diamond support...and S's hand, previoulsy flawed by the poor quality of the diamonds, grows up enough to bid 4♠..which, I think, makes N go to slam.

Having said that, I can sympathize with the decision to bid 4♦...I think I'd have bid 3N, but maybe I'm being swayed by seeing both hands.

[Cyberyeti]

We'd bid:

1♦-(1♠)-2♥-(2♠)-X(♣)-(P)-2N(rev leb)-(P)-3♣(semi forced)-(P-)3♦(forcing raise, prob 3 cards)

Where it goes from there is anybody's guess, but it's quite conceivable that it will simply proceed with keycard and bidding the slam opposite 3 key cards.

[Fluffy]

I think north should bid 3♦ over 3♣, that is, if its forcing for you (on second auction it would be for me). There is no point on cubidding when you have a descriptive bid avaible, specially if its cheaper. Of course if 3♦ is not forcing you are a bit stuck.

[gnasher]

On the first auction, South must have been feeling that he hadn't really shown his hand. He'd have bid the same way with xxx x KJ10xx AKxx. However, it's hard to see what he could have done differently once he'd decided to pass over 2♠.

Maybe that's where the problem lies. If passing 2♠ is often a balanced hand, maybe opener should stretch to bid 3♣ on this.

Even better would be to play transfers by opener here. 2NT has no great value as a natural bid when you have pass available.


On the second auction, North should have done more, obviously. It's not at all surprising to find that 3NT is a worse contract than 6♦.

[pooltuna]

bad luck mostly for the table that bid 3NT