[Fluffy]

IMPS all vul

♠AK754
♥K5
♦K10962
♣2

S(you)-N
1♠-2♦
4♣-4♥
4♠-6♥
???



sorry not a great deal, but I am bored :/

[Apollo81]

7♦ obviously

if partner doesn't have diamonds then this is a silly post

[whereagles]

Is pard unknown? If so, seems like he has a 65 and is bidding naturally. I'd pass and leave it to him to sort out the mess he's created.

Be sure to check all 4 hands and point out how he could have made it on your blatantly double-dummy line

[FrancesHinden]

He either has 5 good hearts (AQJ109) and 6 poor diamonds (Axxxxx) and no ace of clubs, in which case we should pass, or he mis-sorted his red cards at the beginning and has more hearts than diamonds, in which case we should pass.

[jtfanclub]

He must have a spade void, which is why no blackwood. But if partner has the red suits, and no red kings, surely he can't have a club loser as well?

7♥. Partner must be 0-6-5-2 or even more distributional.

[Fluffy]

lol, everyone seems to agree

ok, what if partner is not so lunatic and you beleive ♦ is his longest suit?

[kenberg]

Since I have given partner no reason to think that 6H is acceptable, and if he wanted to play 6S or 6N I assume he would have bid it, I guess he is prepared to play in 7D. He apparently can envision some alternative contract as well, but I don't care, I bid 7D. Besides the fact that I don't really understand what is going on, if he is offering 7H as an alternative I don't think I would want to bid 7H and hear a double, presumably followed by a diamond lead.

[Al_U_Card]

??? For me he has the ace and K of ♥ and you should show the ♠ K with 6 ♠. He is thinking of NT or ♦ and is it to be 6 or 7....

[whereagles]

Gonzalo, we have a contradiction here:

If his longest suit is not diamonds, he's lunatic
If his longest suit is diamonds, then he must be lunatic to bid this way
If pard is trying to bid as a partnership, he must be lunatic if he expects you to understand his 6♥ correctly



Just pass anyway and leave him to sort the mess he created.. lol

[Al_U_Card]

Does not the splinter agree diamonds as trump? Everything else is a slam try etc.

[Tola18]

Al_U_Card, on Mar 14 2007, 02:50 PM, said:

Does not the splinter agree diamonds as trump? Everything else is a slam try etc.

He perhaps dont play with splinter, thus he dont know we have diamonds together.

But of course in this case he has a tremendous two-suiter.

[Fluffy]

My deductions were:

this is IMPs, so no matter to play in major or minor or NT, jsut the correct level.

6♥ then shouldn't be natural

the correct level then can be iether 6 or 7

partner must then have a playable contract at the 6 level (6♠ or 6NT)

there is no way 6N is safer than 6♦ the alternative contract must eb 6♠

partner is mising something, it must be in the suit he couldn't raise.


partners hand:

♠J10x
♥AQxx
♦AQJxxx
♣-

We bid this on a quicky sesion at MBC on less than a minute, 7♦= was 1 off hehe.

[whereagles]

I think those are rather forced reasonings. There are dozens of ways to bid your pard's hand. He just got sloppy and payed for it.

[kenberg]

I pretty much agree with your reasoning. I was thinking, though didn't say, that partner might well be planning on passing a 6S bid. I guess he was. With all those diamonds, it's hard not to bid 7, as I did and you did. I suppose one could reason further: If partner had really good spades and thinks 7D is maybe playable, he would just bid 7 of one of those suits. Therefore he has modest spades and these will be a problem in 7D as well as in spades. One could think that way. Not crazy, not at all. I expect my partners to have due regard for my lack of imagination however.