Erroneous in my play; flawless in my analysis
a new Bridge superhero has emerged.
I am The Fallible Genius no one can result better than I can.
I quickly sort my cards and pause for a glance at the board. Thank goodness I'm in third chair I have some extra time to sort up my hand. Partner starts with ONE CLUB and righty fumbles out a green card. My hand is sorted now and life ain't so rushed.
Vul: Us
Dlr: Pard
K 10 8 6
8 7
10 9 8 6
A 10 4
I bid ONE SPADE and lefty bids a quick TWO DIAMONDS. Partner
goes into a bit of a huddle and produces THREE DIAMONDS followed
by a fast PASS by righty. 3 is an
undiscussed bid in this sequence. I suppose he has a slamprobing
hand with good spade support, but I can't be sure. All
that I am sure of is that I want to slow partner down. I bid
THREE SPADES.. PASS.. pause..
pause.. PASS(!).. PASS.
I can't really believe this auction happened, but I hope that
when dummy hits, there will be more explanation. Lefty leads
the A.
Vul: Us Dlr: Pard |
PARD (dummy)![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() | |||
ME -- 1 ![]() 3 ![]() |
LEFTY -- 2 ![]() Pass |
PARD 1 ![]() 3 ![]() Pass? |
RIGHTY Pass Pass Pass |
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ME![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
The 2 call has indicated that the void should
be offensively useful and so it should be evaluated as a
fantabulous feature of the hand. The big question here is:
should North bid to game on his hand? I think it is very
close, but there is a point in favour of bidding to game.
If North bids game it might make or it might go down. Even
if it is going down, the opponents might still save
in 5. This may leave N/S in
the dark about whether to
bid 5
or to double 5
and N/S might still guess wrong.
Instead, if North uses a 4
splinter
bid to give the best description of
his shape, then South will
have the maximum amount of information to decide what to do.
If North decides to not bid game then an invitational
3 should be enough. What my
partner did here was force to game and then change his
mind! Oh well, I feel reasonably content playing where
we are, even though it won't take much to make 4
.
OK, enough bidding analysis. It's time for me to pause and plan the play. Maybe you should do the same?