[Free]

Imp scoring, teams

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How do you plan your auction?

[mr1303]

What defence am I playing to Multi?

[Mbodell]

My instinct was 6♣, but I think we are probably less than 50% to make so I'll say a heavy 5♣ instead. Can I laugh out loud if some people pass this 2♦ and then it goes all pass?

[whereagles]

Dbl.

This should force opponents to show their suit. If it's spades I'll stick to 5♣. But if it's hearts I'll take a flyer at slam, based on the would-be shortness across. Finally, if pard makes some move in diamonds, 5. If he makes some random noise that's not necessarily diamond based, 6.

[mr1303]

What would 4C be? Double might work well, followed by a jump in clubs. All a bit of a guess.

[Free]

Doesn't really matter what defense you play, I'm interested in how people would try to tackle this hand whatever their methods.

For the record, playing this hand I played a fairly simple (= definitely not optimal) method: Dbl shows ♦ (but no continuations defined), all others are natural...

[PhilKing]

Most decent players in the UK play 2♦-X-Pass as showing diamonds, so that is completely insane.

3♣. It's time to walk the dog!

[broze]

Good hand for Multi vs Multi where 2S shows a constructive C overcall. You can then try Phil's dog-walk without the (albeit small) possibility of a passout.

[whereagles]

PhilKing, on 2015-January-18, 11:38, said:

3♣. It's time to walk the dog!

You think so? well I think there a considerable chance it will close the auction

[PhilKing]

whereagles, on 2015-January-18, 12:50, said:

You think so? well I think there a considerable chance it will close the auction

Well that's better than double closing the auction.

[whereagles]

oh i doubt that

[mikeh]

It's either 6C or 3C. I already have it in my notes that if I ever play against Philking and he makes a simple overcall, we are letting him play there unless the hand clearly belongs to us:)

[Fluffy]

I would bid 2♠ (take out of spades), if partner bids 5♦ over it I will not be very happy, but other things could be bad also.

[Free]

Continuation: if LHO gets the opportunity, he'll bid 4♥ P/C (Fluffy, your partner will Dbl this if it's penalty) and RHO will correct to 4♠.

[Fluffy]

heart seem to be 4441 on my position, I am missing too many cards to drive to slam myself, so 5♣ and maybe partner raises. Although I feel it is not over yet.

[mikeh]

I'm bidding 6C now. If partner doubled 4♥ for penalty, we may be missing grand, but there is no way of discovering the heart 10.

I may be down, off an Ace and a slow heart loser, but I'll take my chances.

Put it another way: I think that there are (far) more layouts on which slam is excellent and he can't raise 5♣ than there are hands on which slam is bad.

What worries me most is my bidding 6♣ and having rho double on his heart void. It is easy to see that opposite say xx K10xxx QJxx xx we need to be in 6♥, but I'm going to wait until that double happens before committing myself. And even then, I probably won't pull.

[ArtK78]

The idea of doubling for takeout on these cards makes me ill. I would expect that it would go all pass a significant amount of the time.

Unless you have a bid for this type of hand over the 2♦ opening*, I would just punt 6♣ hoping that partner has one or two cards that would let it succeed. I don't have a ♥K ask available, and that card, without more, gives me a reasonable chance to make 6♣.

The ♥J and the ♠A together also gives me a reasonable chance to make 6♣.

Partner could have some cards that are not useful but the opps might make a lead which turns them into gold. For example, partner could have the ♦A and the ♥J, and the opps could lead a diamond.

The bottom line is that I don't know what is best here, but I do know what is worst - double. I am going to guess that 6♣ is the winner.

* I fully expected that someone was going to say that "Over a 2♦ opening, we play that 2 of a major shows 4 in the bid major and a side solid 8 card minor." That would be great on this hand, but I would wager that it doesn't come up too often.

[foobar]

My guess is 5♣, preparing to apologize if pard happens to hold the magical ♥KJx or A♠.

[whereagles]

Why apologize for making a good bid?

[bigbenvic]

I double which shows either 18+ balanced or 15+ unbalanced (2maj is 10-14 take out of other major) and I'm preparing to bid 5♣ over them jumping to 4♠!

If they stay out of and unless partner shows ♥ I'll treat this as a GF single suiter in ♣. I like that slightly more than just jumping to 5♣ (my second choice) as there is some chance of partner holding ♥ IF the weak 2 is in ♠ and or they stay silent (unlikely but you never know) and give us room to explore slam or even grand.