Re: Yor followup The Real Auction (sorry)

On May 7, 5:53 pm, Nick France <gandal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> On May 7, 9:09 am, rhm <r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > On May 7, 4:36 am, Nick France <gandal...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > On May 6, 9:15 pm, "Jeffrey" <slesse...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> > > > Hi all
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> > > >   N         E        S       W
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> > > >    P         P        1C      1H
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> > > >    1S       3H       4S       p
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> > > >   5H         P           ?
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> > > > You hold  AKQx   AJTx   x   Qxxx
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> > > > Your  Bid?
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> > > > Partner showed 5 spades  and the 3 Heart bid  was  preemptive.
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> > > > MPS
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> > > > Jeff
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> > > 5S now.  Your 4S bid was a stretch but not an unreasonable one.  Now
> > > partner has made the worse possible bid for your hand.  5H seems to
be
> > > a void and denies the ace of clubs and ace of diamonds.  Keep your
> > > fingers cross that 5S make but I'd bet against it.
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> > > Nick France
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> > Are you seriously suggesting that partner would cue-bid 5H missing all
> > aces and AKQ of trumps???
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> > Rainer Herrmann- Hide quoted text -
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> So it seems.  Why bypass an ace?   More likely partner has JTxxxx  --
> KQxx   KJx and sees a good play for slam if you don't have wasted
> values in hearts.
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> Nick France

Because one would expect at least one more ace in opener's minors for
his 4S raise and surely not a wasted heart ace.

Boris