Sunday, 2 September 2012

High level auction

Another matchpoint problem today, this one's just a bidding poll. I'm afraid you'll have to put up with my system to start you off. First you get to see you hand.

South (You)
A 5 4
T 3
2
A K Q 10 9 7 4
The auction so far (NS Vulnerable):
West North East South
11
4 6 Pass ???
1 = 4+ and 14+ HCP; or 15+HCP balanced.
You don't have any particular agreement about a double of 4, feel free to suggest what you think it should be in the comments. I suspect I would take it as suggesting penalties if opener has a strong NT hand. Now to the poll, what's your next bid?

(after you've voted you can find partner's hand below)

For after you've voted, you can spy on partner's hand and decide whether you're happy. :)
Posted by David on
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4 comments:

  1. David3 September 2012 at 04:22

    As a bonus follow-up question, how does your action differ if partner has just bid 5H?

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  2. David4 September 2012 at 02:00

    Not very decisive between 'bidding' and 'not bidding' so far. :)

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  3. adskal4 September 2012 at 21:50

    I pass - can be a bad decision, but the partner did not want to ask me about anything, so neither aces nor side tricks seem to be of interest to him: -, AQ109xxx, AKQxx, x is a possible hand.

    After 5 hearts I am likely to bid 6 though.

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    1. David20 September 2012 at 05:09

      You have given partner one of my good cards and even then I wouldn't say seven is a terrible contract on that hand (though if partner put down that hand you'd be disappointed).

      It looks like I've over-ruled by the majority of voters opting to pass though. Oh well.

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