No slams yesterday.
This was an interesting hand and worth examination in detail.
1H from south, textbook.
Natasha has a think and goes 3C, not many would but with the vulnerability?
When interfering and preempting always make only one bid to the max you can get away with.
3H from Jenny quite right , if South is minimum then 4H might be a push, silence from west, no point in taking pain if they don’t go to game.
4H from Peter quite right.
Just to mention an ethics point, I saw a couple of examples round the room yesterday where at this point everyone is gathering up their bidding cards, tapping the table if you are lucky.
Please continue to play in tempo, put pass cards out and wait because there might be another bid as in this case from me. 5C.
My thinking. With AX in clubs we can’t have many club losers and likely only one trick in defence. With 3 H partner must be short, So we perhaps have 1H 2 S and 1D losers, 2 off in 5C worth the risk, and so it proved. It looks likely to me that 4H will make. I expected a double but even that would have nit changed the result.
Actually it all comes back to Natasha’s risky bid.
What do you think?
philip@thompsonsonline.net
There is often a very small margin between success and failure .
5C should go 3 off and if doubled would result in an outright bottom instead of an outright top !
Best wishes - Malcolm
Just so!
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