In third seat partner bids 4S all nv at imps. (4N) and you hold Axxxx,xxx,Qxx,KJ and pass. lho bids 5C and you forge on to 5S. Opps X and you're down two.
Teammates are down one in five diamonds.
You hold Qx,xxx,KJxxx.Axx and partner preempts 2D same all nv at imps. (X) 5D (6S) down two. Teammates are defending 4S making.
Holding AJ98x,KQ,xxx,Axx partner preempts 3H (P). Not knowing if it would make you bump the preempt to 4H. Perhaps you can goad them into bidding 4S! Passed to the balancer who X's. Cute, after passing over 3H. Lefty tanks forever and finally emerges with 4S. Partner bids 5H. Anyone XX ing over the balancer? If so, what does that mean?
sooooo your analysis is???
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ok, so here are some of my thoughts. I fielded these hands with a top flight A player so perhaps my thoughts are not mainstream.
so on the first hand it's kind of curious why one would compete to 5S after the opps bid 5C. Surely, one doesn't think this contract can be bought for 4N? 4N in this position is a TO bid. Lefty is forced to bid the longer minor, for pass, or correct to perhaps hearts.
So why not jam the auction to 5S in the first place? Is one going to sell out to 5D or 5H? That way the opps have to guess at the six level whether to bid on or whether to stop and saw off 5S.
Note that is precisely what happened on the following hand. My partner started the jam with 2D. I was willing to take the save at the five level but didn't mess around with 3d, then 4d then 5d. I blasted right away and forced my lho to guess. The guess was totally wrong and we won big time on this board.
as for the last hand, once again, opener didn't make a decision at the first opportunity to determine how high he/she wanted to preeempt -but bothered to get there on the second round. (holding 8 hearts).
It's just confusing to me and gives opponents multiple opportunities to get it right --whether to bid to their game, their slam or to saw you off.
any comments?
Saturday, January 7, 2012
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