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* Interesting hand (Bidding Q)Kenny McCormack
+- Re: Interesting hand (Bidding Q)James Dow Allen
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Subject: Interesting hand (Bidding Q)
Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:22:20 -0000 (UTC)
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 by: Kenny McCormack - Tue, 19 Oct 2021 19:22 UTC

Both vul, teams, South dealer, you, North, hold:

AKQJ9
5432
- A432

Bidding goes:

S W N E
P P 1S 2H
3D X ?

(no alerts, no explanations, so far, anyway)

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From: jdallen2...@yahoo.com (James Dow Allen)
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 by: James Dow Allen - Fri, 22 Oct 2021 04:21 UTC

On Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 2:22:23 AM UTC+7, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> Both vul, teams, South dealer, you, North, hold:
>
> AKQJ9
> 5432
> -
> A432
>
> Bidding goes:
>
> S W N E
> P P 1S 2H
> 3D X ?
>
> (no alerts, no explanations, so far, anyway)
>
> --
> The book "1984" used to be a cautionary tale;
> Now it is a "how-to" manual.

I am curious to see how experts will answer this, but with none forthcoming, I'll take a stab!
It appears to me that hands can be constructed for partner making any of 3D, 3H, 3S, 3NT or 4C
the best contract!

Most of those are long-shots we'd be unlikely to achieve even when correct. But Redouble,
surely for take-out, gives us a chance to get to our best spot. Or would the unilateral 3 Spades
be better, since this is likely best no matter how few spades partner has? Pass could be best;
especially if East, somehow thinking the Double responsive, might rescue us!

Why didn't partner open 3 Diamonds, or a weak 2 Diamonds? (Because he has four hearts?)
He didn't make a Negative Double so he has little help for black suits, but are his diamonds
AQT98x or AQ8xxx ?

Summary: I don't know. I'm considering an epileptic fit to let a substitute figure it out.

Cheers,
James

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 by: James Dow Allen - Tue, 2 Nov 2021 08:41 UTC

On Wednesday, October 20, 2021 at 2:22:23 AM UTC+7, Kenny McCormack wrote:
> Both vul, teams, South dealer, you, North, hold:
>
> AKQJ9
> 5432
> -
> A432
>
> Bidding goes:
>
> S W N E
> P P 1S 2H
> 3D X ?
>
> (no alerts, no explanations, so far, anyway)
>
> --
> The book "1984" used to be a cautionary tale;
> Now it is a "how-to" manual.

I'm disappointed that no expert has advised us on this problem.
It seems to me that we may be able to almost reconstruct the exact hands
based on the auction! South didn't open a weak 2D: perhaps he didn't
because he has 4 hearts. West doubled an ostensibly forcing(?) bid:
He must be confident he can double spades as well. Most likely the hand patterns
starting from South and going clockwise are
1-4-6-2 ; 5-0-5-3 ; 5-4-0-4 ; 2-5-2-4
It makes a difference what partner's clubs are, and how good
his diamonds are, but it looks to me like we may take about 8 tricks
in either spades or diamonds.

Cheers,
James

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