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#21 User is offline   aguahombre 

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Posted 2011-May-02, 23:35

View Postmasse24, on 2011-April-29, 14:59, said:

Thanks for all the replies.

After the 1!H opening bid, can you suggest a reasonable auction to slam?
And...which slam? How high do you get? :blink:


Gawd..anything. take this joke auction:

1H-2H
2S*-4H (2S totally random game try, except not short in spades)
4S-6H* (whatever you want, I got).

Like I said, we aren't getting to 7 unless we have a nice 1CF system.
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Posted 2011-May-03, 02:51

View Postaguahombre, on 2011-May-02, 22:10, said:

I don't think that sequence is a good advertisement for your version of precision. It would seem that, with a forcing club system, the huge favorite grand should be a cakewalk. Without such a mechanism, we can't find out about the two bullets, the four hearts, and the spade doubleton (or queen) ---so we languish in six also. But, if we switched to a FC, this must be child's play.

I agree. The key is if you are using CAB, to do it in SPADES first. Your sequence uses RKC anyway, so why not ask in the one suit that really matters? My sequence would look like this:
1-1NT 16+; GF 8-11 balanced (8-13 if UPH)
2-2 Transfer Stayman; 4 card Heart suit
2-3 Beta acceptance; 4 controls (A=2 K=1)
3-4 CAB ask in Spades; Qx(x)(x) or xx. Don't need to ask further, as Spades have no losers; anyways, we have an agreement that if you must ask again, that 4NT is the asking bid over Hearts being trump.
4-5 Kickback (RKC 0314 for Hearts); 2 but no Q
7 FTW!
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Posted 2011-May-03, 15:18

I'd bid drury with the responding hand, and I think it is very clear. I'm very surprised to see Helene, who comes across as a sometimes reasonable person, bid 2H.
Please note: I am interested in boring, bog standard, 2/1.

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