It’s good to use bidding space available to communicate with your partner and find the right spot to play in. The bidding on the table went like this.
2♣- various strong hand
2♦- waiting bid ( 2♥ would be double negative)
2♥- Kokish relay
2♠- Forced bid
2NT- 24-25 balanced hand
3♣- Puppet stayman
3♦- Denies 4 carder ♥
3♥- Check for 4 carder ♠
3♠- Shows 4 carder ♠
Amazing! All the bids from 2♣ to 3♠ were utilized and N can almost write down the various hands that S could have. Time to check for Key cards! SP bids 4NT RKC (1430); 5♣ is the response. Now what? which is the playing spot? 6♠... 6NT...
Stop guessing! N bids 7♠. A 75% slam converted to a 25% Grand slam. (apologies for the crude evaluation of percentages). 17 imps down the drain.
“Partner you had a lousy 24-25 hand!” SP declared.
Postmortem revealed that even with the best hand that South could possibly have (as per the bidding), 7♠ is just about 75% (may be a little lesser).
Don’t worry about the 17 imps! With the use of a scientific approach you are bound to get back the imps lost (provided you make use the information from the bidding).
2 comments:
Wow! Your first post. I do think the “24-point hand” is a bit wanting, but I think using Kokish is acceptable. The jumps after that are a bit bizarre. How about the following? 3S-4C-4D-4H-5H-6S.
Since South is known to be balanced with 4 spades exactly and 2/3 hearts, North probably needs to find South with AK in diamonds and the king of clubs. By cue-bidding, North gets to temporize with a 4H (second-round-)control-showing bid. South, having already shown his one minor-suit control, can bid 5H to show values + fragment. Now North is correct to sign off in 6S. The risk of fatally missing two keycards is too negligible.
Alternatively, North can plan a keycard auction, confidently expecting 5C in response to 4NT. 5C-5D-5S-5NT-6S will ensue on this layout. North can plan to ask about the diamond king too, should South have the CK: 5C-5D-5S-5NT-6C-6D.
Revenge post! Revenge post!
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