On 4/24/2008 2:55 AM, Henry Lockwood wrote:
> On 23 Apr, 17:25, 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.
>
> Thanks for the comments all! Partner held:
>
> xx
> Axxx
> QJx
> AQxx
>
> (or some such; the im****tant factors are the two aces and the small
> doubleton spade!)
So the contract you really want to be in is 7C, right? Pull trump, SAK,
ruff a spade, run spades? I think that spot is entirely findable, and in
fact should be easier in your methods than in mine. Since you badly need
partner's fourth club, the fact that my 3C promises 5+ clubs means I
can't easily find out if he has three or four; you only promised 4, and
his 3H should certainly be showing 4+ clubs and the HA, and deny the DA.
After this start, any ace-asking bid by you will find the CAQ, and his
doubleton spade should not surprise you at all, when he sup****ts clubs
instead of spades.
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Cheers,
Alan (San Jose, California, USA)
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