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#1 User is offline   ArtK78 

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Posted 2015-February-23, 06:28

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2/1 game forcing.
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Posted 2015-February-23, 07:16

"glp, sorry I am a club light"
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Posted 2015-February-23, 07:24

Anything other than pass seems inconceivable. Even ignoring fast arrival, partner is just bidding what he thinks he can make.
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Posted 2015-February-23, 07:27

I'd bid 6. Partner clearly has a lot of shape, but minimum high cards and poor controls.

Putting that together I expect slam to be good most of the time and possibly laydown, but there are no guarantees in an auction like this.
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Posted 2015-February-23, 10:14

Interesting. A couple of posters think this is a pass, while PhilKing will bid 6.

My partner passed, and it was wrong. Here is the full hand:



Our cue bidding style is Neanderthal, meaning aces first. So I had no cue bid available over 3. Still, I thought that a jump to 5 after making a game forcing 2/1 described my hand pretty well - an overwhelming club suit with nothing to cue bid, but no desire to play 3NT.

Quite frankly, a grand on these cards is not unreasonable. You only need 4-3 hearts, and there are some other chances.

The other table never sniffed at slam, playing in 3NT.

I think that opener, with 3 aces and what rates to be a useful shortness, should bid one more. Opener could certainly have a far less useful hand - for example, the hearts could be KQJxx rather than ATxxx, and the spades could be KJx rather than Axx. But I would be interested to hear from others.
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Posted 2015-February-23, 10:35

Hi,

6C.

If it does not make, shoot partner.

Sry, but 5C does not exist, there are lots of bids between 3C and 5C,
opener is unlimited, why kill space.

With kind regards
Marlowe

PS: After seening the partners hand, what is wrong with 3D.
Why rule out 3NT?
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Posted 2015-February-23, 10:36

View PostArtK78, on 2015-February-23, 10:14, said:

Our cue bidding style is Neanderthal, meaning aces first.

That might have been helpful information. The lack of cuebid or minorwood or whatever, suggested that partner was not particularly interested in slam. Maybe the method is bad .. or maybe my thinking was just bad. To me a jump straight to game in a 2/1 auction is a signoff and not a slam try, but perhaps this was an opportunity to think outside the box.

Anyway, a 3 cuebid by north would really simplify reaching slam here, for me at least.
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Posted 2015-February-23, 10:44

View PostArtK78, on 2015-February-23, 10:14, said:

Interesting. A couple of posters think this is a pass, while PhilKing will bid 6.

My partner passed, and it was wrong. Here is the full hand:



Our cue bidding style is Neanderthal, meaning aces first. So I had no cue bid available over 3. Still, I thought that a jump to 5 after making a game forcing 2/1 described my hand pretty well - an overwhelming club suit with nothing to cue bid, but no desire to play 3NT.

Quite frankly, a grand on these cards is not unreasonable. You only need 4-3 hearts, and there are some other chances.

The other table never sniffed at slam, playing in 3NT.

I think that opener, with 3 aces and what rates to be a useful shortness, should bid one more. Opener could certainly have a far less useful hand - for example, the hearts could be KQJxx rather than ATxxx, and the spades could be KJx rather than Axx. But I would be interested to hear from others.


I would have passed 5.

I don't find your explanation or PK's reasoning to be persuasive, since wild horses could not have made me bid 5 with your hand, notwithstanding that systemically I wasn't permitted to cuebid.

What the heck would have been wrong with 4?

Please, please don't tell me that not only have you barred yourself from cuebidding absent a 1st round control, but you have also barred yourself from showing a slam-interested hand with no cue-bid? If you choose to play minorwood here, then, with all respect, you and partner have not given this situation much thought.

When partner signs off in an auction in which he had lots and lots of room to describe his hand, then I am not taking any further action unless I have significant undisclosed values. Yes, I will be puzzled by what hand thinks that bidding 5 makes sense, but since I know he cannot have the hand you held, nor any hand that makes slam good opposite 3 Aces, I will trust him.

If I was asked to fill in for a player who was silly enough to play a method that prohibits cuebidding absent a 1st round control AND played minorwood, I might bid 6 However, I would never agree to play with anyone who advocated those methods, since I don't like intentionally playing silly methods. The old-fashioned cuebidding is bad, but survivable....adding minorwood isn't.
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Posted 2015-February-23, 12:22

I pass as well and would never consider 5 on the actual hand!
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Posted 2015-February-23, 12:26

I agree with almost everything that Mike says, except that if I had the responding hand and had to choose between 5 and a 4 Keycard-ask, I'd bid the Keycard ask.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2015-February-23, 13:17

With this pluperfect 3 aces, trump Q and possible ruffing value wild horses could not keep me from bidding 6c. Having said that I do not understand at all why the N hand would not like to play NT. The overwhelming majority of normal opening bids will make 4n far far far more often than they will make 5c (assuming the partnership agrees that 3n is feasible via the bidding). Worst case scenario this hand should be more than willing to investi- gate 3n and then issue a mild slam try of 4c. A typical sequence 1h 2c 3c 3d 3n 4c should get us to 6 easily enough yet still leave us with a vastly more practical 4n vs 5c if we do not bid slam.
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Posted 2015-February-23, 14:11

Guess I'm just a basher also. I'd bid 6 .

Would you expect partner to make any kind of slam try missing all the outside 1st round controls AND the trump Q? No! Yet partner has contracted to play 5 only knowing that we have support. Partner likely has long s, but even with AKJxxxx partner needs something else to make the 2/1 GF bid. With 4 sure tricks for partner versus the 2 or 3 partner might expect for the 5 bid, I think it's right to go on.
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Posted 2015-February-23, 14:23

Pass and detest 5.
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Posted 2015-February-23, 14:37

I really don't understand 5.

I would be torn between 4 and 3 (which is not a cuebid). It would have never occurred to me to bid 5.

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Posted 2015-February-24, 01:15

Partner's auction doesn't make a lot of sense unless he has a void (I would expect it to be in ) and two fast losers in one of the other suits. He doesn't want to show his featured side suit because he is afraid it will give the opponents the information they need to beat game. My construction is something like xx-(void)-QJTx-AKJxxxx.

So I bid 6 hoping we are on the same wavelength.
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Posted 2015-February-24, 02:55

I really hate the 5 bid as well. But we need to remember that in the context of cue bid style of OP, it is not as bad as it looks imo and he made this bid in this context. Had we known this was the cuebid style, as he knew at the table, perhaps some of us could predict this type of hand for 5 bid.
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Posted 2015-February-24, 04:40

View Postgnasher, on 2015-February-23, 12:26, said:

I agree with almost everything that Mike says, except that if I had the responding hand and had to choose between 5 and a 4 Keycard-ask, I'd bid the Keycard ask.

View Postmikeh, on 2015-February-23, 10:44, said:

I would have passed 5.
When partner signs off in an auction in which he had lots and lots of room to describe his hand, then I am not taking any further action unless I have significant undisclosed values. Yes, I will be puzzled by what hand thinks that bidding 5 makes sense, but since I know he cannot have the hand you held, nor any hand that makes slam good opposite 3 Aces, I will trust him.

I think this attitude is wrong.
We are playing Bridge. I might not like the 5 bid, but this can not mean I refuse to cooperate.
Partner must have a hand where he expects 5 to be the right level opposite most club raises.
Your hand is extraordinary.
Philking put it nicely why you should raise

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Posted 2015-February-24, 05:56

View PostTylerE, on 2015-February-23, 14:23, said:

Pass and detest 5.


BINGO!!
The issue heer is the 5 bid, not the Pass!
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Posted 2015-February-24, 06:02

6C is wishful thinking - 5C does not suggest slam in any way - since u have no room to cue bid gien your style - bid 4C and give pard a chance to cue. Over 4C 4d (still no ace to cue) 5C now 6C is reasonable given that you went slow and are asking for pards input - 5C is a big STOP sign. daffydoc
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Posted 2015-February-24, 07:28

View Postdaffydoc, on 2015-February-24, 06:02, said:

6C is wishful thinking - 5C does not suggest slam in any way - since u have no room to cue bid gien your style - bid 4C and give pard a chance to cue. Over 4C 4d (still no ace to cue) 5C now 6C is reasonable given that you went slow and are asking for pards input - 5C is a big STOP sign. daffydoc

How can this be true?
Partner forced to game over a wide ranging opening bid with regard to strength and distribution.
He got a raise, which has no upper limit since we are in a game forcing situation already.
How can partner force to game and when he gets a raise know 5 is the limit?

There is no such thing as a stop sign after this bidding and there is no rule in bridge that slams may only be bid after cue-bidding.
The 5 bid simply says he is at the lower limit for his game force and not very suitable for slam.
Surprise, surprise when we hold all side aces and the queen of trumps.

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