Hi all
Last night I was in the unusual situation of holding:
AKJxxxx
Q
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KTxxx
Partner, in second seat, opened 1NT (12-14). RHO passed, and I
started with a transfer to S. Partner completed the transfer, and I
rebid 3C (game-forcing with slam interest). Happy so far?
What are the best continuations from this point? Obviously, on this
hand I want to know about aces; if partner has the two relevant aces I
want to know about the SQ to bid the grand. On other hands e.g. KQxxx/
AK/x/KQxxx I'm still considering slam, and still interested in aces,
but I also want to know which of my suits partner prefers.
It seems to me that partner should bid S without controls, and should
cue-bid otherwise. Should we enter a control-showing auction even
though we're not necessarily certain which suit to play?
Alternatively, how can we carry on without risking getting too high?
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On the night, the auction went:
1N-2H
2S-3C
3H-4D-(X)
4H-(5D)-6S
By this stage, it was clear to me that we'd lost our way a bit; we
were vul. vs not, and I just had to hope partner had one of the
relevant aces. We got lucky; partner did have both aces (he'd
intended 3H as natural, showing a 4-card suit, and had taken 4D as
4sf, and 4H was a cue-bid) and the SQxx were offside. One pair played
in 6C making, one in 5DX the other way (1100, but not as good a result
as it deserved), one more in 6S and a couple in 6NT (oops?). There
were a couple of pairs in 4S.
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