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08/27/2024 Game Post-mortem Session
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Board 2 I am having difficulty reconciling your logic. Specifically your call to 3H either directly over the unusual 2n or later. Had the vulnerability been reversed I can see your justification. But here we have unfavourable vulnerability as well as a flat hand and low spot cards in hearts in the north direction. Finally we are violating the Law. Had 3H bought the contract a double from the opponents would fetch down either one or two from what I can see. That would be -200 or minus 500. So to recap had the vulnerability been reversed I would concur but here it seems to me that there would be a huge risk to bid 3h and risk a penalty double.
1) I think passing throughout will clearly be right some of the time. It will win when you do not make 3H and the opponents do not make 3m. It will also win when you are going -200 and the opponents do not compete. 2) I think fearing a penalty double is misplaced. It is a very difficult auction to double for penalty because opener is unlimited and the unusual bidder is wide range. 3) In practice I have found raising in these spots to induce over competing from the opponents very frequently. So even if the hand records say 3H is losing, you often get away with it.
i just thought that if you were going to bid you should do it right away, because if you wait then bid, they are more likely to double knowing you didn't have enough to bid in the first place.
I know there are probably a couple topics left in the bidding world for the Master Series, but the discussion about the Club suit on Board 2 was really useful. Maybe some lessons in the future about playing various card combinations as declarer? Thanks as always for doing these free games,! I can never play live but still love the post-mortems.
Yeah I’ve struggled with how to teach them. I agree there are so many important ones that people don’t know about.
Board 5, our bidding was different. P-P-P-1S-P-should E bid 1nt hoping to improve the contract? And if they do, what should W bid?
East knows that west has a really strong hand. (3 passes to partner, means they are probably not a minimum). Its really close whether they are supposed to respond. The problem is you will often face a 2N or 3♠ rebid. On the actual west hand, I think I would bid 3S because my spades are good enough to maybe survive opposite a singleton and I dont want to risk playing in 2♦ when partner is 1-3. Its either that or jump shift to 3♦ which feels like a lot, but is certainly in the game.
Sorry, my Q was on B5.
I have Cohen's book on LOTT and still struggling to understand it. If there are 17 total trump, there should be 17 total tricks, and if NS have 9, and EW have 8 the Law is right. If NS can only make 8, EW can make 9, Then isn't it right to go to 3H? Too often when I simply bid to our number of trumps, I get the dreaded -200.
The problem on 5 is that you don't know there are 17 trumps. The 9 card diamond fit was a complete suprise. If you knew you would always compete.
B/5 - defending 2S, and depending on partnership agreement, N would lead CA and switch to D, that's to show singleton D. That would put declares in an awkward position.
I think declarer still has time to do everything. South can never get in and west has a sure entry in hearts.