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Jec #3, boards 6, and 18 The two grand slams

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Posted 2012-March-01, 22:40

The bidding is not entirely convincing, but we got to a grand slam, that made primarily because of no trump lead. I played Seamon for the heart queen because of that.

There is probably a lot of questions about my choice of bidding 3. I generally bid 4 with hands like this, but I didn't want to get partner too excited (this is our first real bridge together). In highnsight, 4 would have been best, but this worked well for an odd reason.

Partner bid 5 over 5 which is good, showing an offensive hand (when I HOLD ak of spades). i bid 5 and partner made a grand slam try of 6. i tried to signoff in 6 but barry realized I had to have good spades for this auction, and put me in the grand. The problem was I didn't have good hearts. we were lucky, I misbid.




This was an unfortunate hand. Seamon meant 5NT as pick a slam, jec took it as GSF for clubs. It is not a bad slam, and in fact is cold. However, we were given a chance to defeat it. A few intersting things about the play.

I choose a deceptive lead of the J. This didn't cause any problems however.

When I showed out on the 2nd round of clubs, JEC can make the hand by ruffing a diamond, and pushing spades through Barry and guessing the diamond Axx instead of a ruffing finesse. Some reason to do so, because I didn't lead the Ace...

He played deadly third round of trumps. Now it looks like he has to go down. Barry threw one too many hearts.





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Posted 2012-March-01, 22:59

2 Quick comments I thought Michael and Jec played a basic simple system but even then they had a few hands that the bidding got confused. I thought Michael exercised excellent judgment on board after board that really applied pressure.


I thought board 6 was frought with chances for miscommunication.

We all wondered about 3h bid.

At the time I said if Ben bids 5s/6s....pard will bid 7h after a pause. I found it comical that people wondered why you guys forced to 7h missing the QH. A very very hard hand

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On 18....I saw no alert and thought 5nt was gsf and commented a great judgment bid by Michael. Your comment surprised me that even at this level, 5nt is very very confusing.

A hand I would end up in 6c.
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Posted 2012-March-02, 01:57

5NT seems an obvious GSF, I don´t see why he would want to pick something else than clubs. Specially after having set them as trumps when he had 3 avaible.
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Posted 2012-March-02, 02:56

View PostFluffy, on 2012-March-02, 01:57, said:

5NT seems an obvious GSF, I don´t see why he would want to pick something else than clubs. Specially after having set them as trumps when he had 3 avaible.


obvious but we are told wrong.


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Posted 2012-March-02, 03:03

A much easier way to make 7C after spade spade ruff is to simply ruff 2 dimonds and claim... Ruff a diamond, club to the ace, ruff a diamond high, pull trumps claim. JEC had a blindspot and then so did Barry. Such is bridge.
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Posted 2012-March-02, 09:48

Yes, ruffing two diamonds seems very straightforward. If JEC would have counted his tricks, he would have come to this conclusion.

On a heart lead, the play is quite interesting.
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Posted 2012-March-02, 09:51

The first grand slam was fortunate and I was hoping this was going to set a tone for the match.

I agree you have a 4 call - why would you introduce a four card heart suit unless you thought it was some sort of fit non-jump (ugh). This rightly caused Barmar to get very excited about his hand, although the final decision was a successful stab.
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Posted 2012-March-02, 11:17

#6: I wasn't really sure whether Ben was suggesting as trumps, or just cue bidding. Even if he had 3, I naturally assumed he also had 5 -- with only 4, I'd expect a negative double. The presumed 5-4 suit seems better as trumps than the 6-3 suit, since the latter will provide more discards.

#18: GIB says that Jimmy was doomed after the 2nd round of trumps. He can ruff out my A but he can't get back to hand to enjoy them. As soon as I pitched my little , I realized I'd solved his problem.

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