Glad to hear you've been getting good cards.
Any time you take an action which ends up with your opponents missing a laydown grand slam and only getting to game, you've done a good thing!
I'm a little confused by all kings and queens of clubs. Any chance the layout looked like this?
........ Q J 3
........ Q J 9
........ K Q J x
........ J x x
x . . . . . . . . . . . x x
x x x . . . . . . . . x x
A x x . . . . . . . . 10 x x x x x
K Q x x x x . . . . x x x
........ A K 10 x x x x
........ A K x x x
........ --
........ A
Bidding
W .... N .... E .... S
-- ..... -- .... -- ... 2C
3C ... X .... P ... 3S
P ..... 4N ... P ... 5S
Passed out
Some questions:
1. What did North intend the double to show?
If the answer is - good hand with no good suit to bid
(like a negative double perhaps)
Then double is fine
Really helps for N/S to be in agreement here
2. Assuming that North's double showed some kind of
good hand, it would be a good idea for North to now
raise spades. A raise to 4S seems kind of dangerous,
but if South is off two aces, four spades will be enough
Another idea is for North to raise to 5S, which says
to South, please bid 6S if you don't have two quick
club losers
3. If South takes the 4NT bid as an affirmation that
spades will be trump, then South must jump to
at least 6S, but 7S would not be out of the question
because .... is North is good enough to ask about aces
AND has a spade fit (the only rational for bidding 4NT)
then South wants to play in at worst small slam,
and, an optimistic South might even leap to seven
spades !! not worrying about the spade queen
(partnership is on a 7-3 fit) and hoping only for
either Q-x of hearts, x-x of hearts (with x-x-x-x of trump)
or J-10-x of hearts.
Whether or not the partnership gets to the grand slam (and knows what it is doing in getting there) absent interference is another matter -- very few pairs have the means to locate the key queen of hearts.
Great to hear from you Regina.
Mark
Any time you take an action which ends up with your opponents missing a laydown grand slam and only getting to game, you've done a good thing!
I'm a little confused by all kings and queens of clubs. Any chance the layout looked like this?
........ Q J 3
........ Q J 9
........ K Q J x
........ J x x
x . . . . . . . . . . . x x
x x x . . . . . . . . x x
A x x . . . . . . . . 10 x x x x x
K Q x x x x . . . . x x x
........ A K 10 x x x x
........ A K x x x
........ --
........ A
Bidding
W .... N .... E .... S
-- ..... -- .... -- ... 2C
3C ... X .... P ... 3S
P ..... 4N ... P ... 5S
Passed out
Some questions:
1. What did North intend the double to show?
If the answer is - good hand with no good suit to bid
(like a negative double perhaps)
Then double is fine
Really helps for N/S to be in agreement here
2. Assuming that North's double showed some kind of
good hand, it would be a good idea for North to now
raise spades. A raise to 4S seems kind of dangerous,
but if South is off two aces, four spades will be enough
Another idea is for North to raise to 5S, which says
to South, please bid 6S if you don't have two quick
club losers
3. If South takes the 4NT bid as an affirmation that
spades will be trump, then South must jump to
at least 6S, but 7S would not be out of the question
because .... is North is good enough to ask about aces
AND has a spade fit (the only rational for bidding 4NT)
then South wants to play in at worst small slam,
and, an optimistic South might even leap to seven
spades !! not worrying about the spade queen
(partnership is on a 7-3 fit) and hoping only for
either Q-x of hearts, x-x of hearts (with x-x-x-x of trump)
or J-10-x of hearts.
Whether or not the partnership gets to the grand slam (and knows what it is doing in getting there) absent interference is another matter -- very few pairs have the means to locate the key queen of hearts.
Great to hear from you Regina.
Mark
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