It's fairly rare for pairs to misjudge enough to play a grand slam in a >partscore. In a recent pairs session, though, this happened to almost
every pair (including mine!).
The hands (Spades.Hearts.Diamonds.Clubs):
West: 984.Q9.A84.AT975
East: A76.AJT84.7.KQ32
N/S are vulnerable, E/W are not. North deals and passes throughout (thus
East will be the opening bidder). South will overcall 2D if available
(or 1C over 1D), and stay silent thereafter.
Of course, the grand slam isn't possible to safely bid, because you
can't know that the HK is in North's hand (even though it was at the
table). Still, nobody found 6C, or even 5C, and only one pair found 3NT >(which strikes me as being a worse contract than 7C, although it makes
12 tricks in practice).
Does anyone have recommendations about how East/West should bid these
hands? Is slam too hard to reach? Is game?
It's fairly rare for pairs to misjudge enough to play a grand slam in a partscore. In a recent pairs session, though, this happened to almost
every pair (including mine!).
The hands (Spades.Hearts.Diamonds.Clubs):
West: 984.Q9.A84.AT975
East: A76.AJT84.7.KQ32
N/S are vulnerable, E/W are not. North deals and passes throughout (thus
East will be the opening bidder). South will overcall 2D if available
(or 1C over 1D), and stay silent thereafter.
Of course, the grand slam isn't possible to safely bid, because you
can't know that the HK is in North's hand (even though it was at the
table). Still, nobody found 6C, or even 5C, and only one pair found 3NT (which strikes me as being a worse contract than 7C, although it makes
12 tricks in practice).
Does anyone have recommendations about how East/West should bid these
hands? Is slam too hard to reach? Is game?
On 08/15/2020 05:08 PM, ais523 wrote:[snip]
[snip]West: 984.Q9.A84.AT975
East: A76.AJT84.7.KQ32
1H-(2D)-2H; 3C-3N; 4H-p;
No idea if it is the best spot, but it is my honest bidding and will
probably make. Don't see what else to bid than 2H; not perfect, but everything else feels worse. A little stong in points in lieu of a
third heart. Rest of the bids are then kinda obvious though if you have
a short suit in diamonds game try available you could try that too.
It's fairly rare for pairs to misjudge enough to play a grand slam in a partscore. In a recent pairs session, though, this happened to almost
every pair (including mine!).
The hands (Spades.Hearts.Diamonds.Clubs):
West: 984.Q9.A84.AT975
East: A76.AJT84.7.KQ32
N/S are vulnerable, E/W are not. North deals and passes throughout (thus
East will be the opening bidder). South will overcall 2D if available
(or 1C over 1D), and stay silent thereafter.
Of course, the grand slam isn't possible to safely bid, because you
can't know that the HK is in North's hand (even though it was at the
table). Still, nobody found 6C, or even 5C, and only one pair found 3NT (which strikes me as being a worse contract than 7C, although it makes
12 tricks in practice).
Does anyone have recommendations about how East/West should bid these
hands? Is slam too hard to reach? Is game?
--
ais523
In message <rh9it7$va3$1@dont-email.me>, ais523 <ais523@nethack4.org>
writes
It's fairly rare for pairs to misjudge enough to play a grand slam in a >>partscore. In a recent pairs session, though, this happened to almostBut on
every pair (including mine!).
The hands (Spades.Hearts.Diamonds.Clubs):
West: 984.Q9.A84.AT975
East: A76.AJT84.7.KQ32
a spade lead, if the heart finesse is wrong you'll probably go down in
5C. I've heart of "5 or 7 hands", but this is arguably a 4 or 7 hand!
Travis Crump wrote:
On 08/15/2020 05:08 PM, ais523 wrote:[snip]
[snip]West: 984.Q9.A84.AT975
East: A76.AJT84.7.KQ32
1H-(2D)-2H; 3C-3N; 4H-p;
No idea if it is the best spot, but it is my honest bidding and will
probably make. Don't see what else to bid than 2H; not perfect, but
everything else feels worse. A little stong in points in lieu of a
third heart. Rest of the bids are then kinda obvious though if you have
a short suit in diamonds game try available you could try that too.
I'm a little surprised that East continues over the 2H bid. Do you play
it as constructive? Normally I'd expect it to be limited to at most a
bad 9 points, and wouldn't expect to make game opposite that with East's
hand (we have six losers and it's unlikely that West will cover three
of them). The solid club suit is rather unexpected at that stage of
bidding.
every pair (including mine!).
The hands (Spades.Hearts.Diamonds.Clubs):
West: 984.Q9.A84.AT975
East: A76.AJT84.7.KQ32
N/S are vulnerable, E/W are not. North deals and passes throughout (thus
East will be the opening bidder). South will overcall 2D if available
(or 1C over 1D), and stay silent thereafter.
Of course, the grand slam isn't possible to safely bid, because you
can't know that the HK is in North's hand (even though it was at the
table). Still, nobody found 6C, or even 5C, and only one pair found 3NT >(which strikes me as being a worse contract than 7C, although it makes
12 tricks in practice).
It's fairly rare for pairs to misjudge enough to play a grand slam in a partscore. In a recent pairs session, though, this happened to almost
every pair (including mine!).
The hands (Spades.Hearts.Diamonds.Clubs):
West: 984.Q9.A84.AT975
East: A76.AJT84.7.KQ32
N/S are vulnerable, E/W are not. North deals and passes throughout (thus
East will be the opening bidder). South will overcall 2D if available
(or 1C over 1D), and stay silent thereafter.
Of course, the grand slam isn't possible to safely bid, because you
can't know that the HK is in North's hand (even though it was at the
table). Still, nobody found 6C, or even 5C, and only one pair found 3NT (which strikes me as being a worse contract than 7C, although it makes
12 tricks in practice).
Does anyone have recommendations about how East/West should bid these
hands? Is slam too hard to reach? Is game?
--
ais523
Carl - not much online discussing this treatment. Perhaps it’s the same as good/bad 2N?As far as I know, Lebensohl is the same as good/bad 2N.
Carl - not much online discussing this treatment. Perhaps it’s the same as good/bad 2N?
Travis Crump wrote:
On 08/15/2020 05:08 PM, ais523 wrote:[snip]
[snip]West: 984.Q9.A84.AT975
East: A76.AJT84.7.KQ32
1H-(2D)-2H; 3C-3N; 4H-p;
No idea if it is the best spot, but it is my honest bidding and will probably make. Don't see what else to bid than 2H; not perfect, but everything else feels worse. A little stong in points in lieu of aI'm a little surprised that East continues over the 2H bid. Do you play
third heart. Rest of the bids are then kinda obvious though if you have
a short suit in diamonds game try available you could try that too.
it as constructive? Normally I'd expect it to be limited to at most a
bad 9 points, and wouldn't expect to make game opposite that with East's
hand (we have six losers and it's unlikely that West will cover three
of them). The solid club suit is rather unexpected at that stage of
bidding.
--
ais523
It's fairly rare for pairs to misjudge enough to play a grand slam in a partscore. In a recent pairs session, though, this happened to almost
every pair (including mine!).
The hands (Spades.Hearts.Diamonds.Clubs):
West: 984.Q9.A84.AT975
East: A76.AJT84.7.KQ32
N/S are vulnerable, E/W are not. North deals and passes throughout (thus East will be the opening bidder). South will overcall 2D if available
(or 1C over 1D), and stay silent thereafter.
Of course, the grand slam isn't possible to safely bid, because you
can't know that the HK is in North's hand (even though it was at the
table). Still, nobody found 6C, or even 5C, and only one pair found 3NT (which strikes me as being a worse contract than 7C, although it makes
12 tricks in practice).
Does anyone have recommendations about how East/West should bid these
hands? Is slam too hard to reach? Is game?
--
ais523
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