On Apr 23, 9:25 am, Henry Lockwood <henry.lockw...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Hi all
>
> Last night I was in the unusual situation of holding:
>
> AKJxxxx
> Q
> -
> 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?
>
> -----------
>
> 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.
Even though a perfect 8 count is good for a grand: xxxx Axxx xxx Ax, I
would be inclined to simply ask for aces and blast 6S if partner has
[at least 1 for the bold | at least two for the timid]. == Bill Shutts
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