Having mastered the martial arts, a Langshan rooster turns to mastering the essence of Contract Bridge...

Wednesday, September 26, 2007

On a rush...

Had a FUN run of cards last night sitting south... Nothing much to the play here - all the contracts were (obviously) cold as ice. However, I'd be interested in any feedback on bidding.

Regardless, it was a fun three boards in a row... Board 1:
J
AJ62
AKQJ3
Q74
KQ873
KQ43

AK63

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1
p2p2
p4NTp5
p6pp
p

Board 2 was a more interesting auction:
AK93
QJ753
AKT8

JT87
A84
Q6
J987

WestNorthEastSouth

12 2
34p4
p6pp
p

I assumed that 4C was a void or stiff ace, but evaluating my hand I still didn't think I had enough to bid slam directly. Using the 30 point deck was an idea that didn't occur to me over the table... It would've yielded a calculation something like this:
  • 17pts+ in partner's hand
  • plus 7pts in mine outside of ♣s
  • equals 24... 30-24=6, or 1.5 tricks in outside suits.
Since I thought we had clubs covered, there was no likely outside loser... So we're on a finesse. I guess I could've pushed?

Third board:
A
AK93
54
AQ9532
J9863
862
AKT
K4

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1p1
p2p3
p4p5
p6

4♣ didn't seem to indicate particular slam interest to me, but I figured we were at least game force, so might as well play 5♣. Thankfully, partner took the push...

If anyone's here, I'd appreciate bidding thoughts... Like I said, trying to learn.

1 comment:

Erdem Ozturk said...

for 3rd board better bidding should be like this
1cl- 1sp
2H - 2NT
3cl- 3D
3NT- 4cl and so on...