Do We Have Enough For Slam - Weekly Free

[@jonathanferguson9226]

Congratulations on 15,000 subscribers.

[@marcindziembor8887]

Got to exact same bidding conclusion on deal 3. 4 spades is a good bid... and congratulations on your 15,000 subscribers Peter! Also - on board 7: opening 1 diamond also gets you to 3NT.

[@jyutzler]

#3 It turns out the bot's game try is terrible but you have to accept it. Yes there are 11 HCP there but it's a very soft 11 with 4=3=3=3 and a jack with dubious value. Do we really want partner to make a help-suit game try there? I don't. Even if you have an absolute maximum (an extra jack) game is still only a 50-50 proposition. LTC isn't perfect but it is a more accurate description of this hand than HCP.

[@bellamaher6319]

Congrats Pete - well deserved

[@jonthomson5764]

Exact same overall score. Missed the slam, but made the pushy 3NT on 4. After starting double on board 2, partner went 1S then opps rebid hearts - here the description of 2NT at this spot seemed close enough (states 19-21 with heart stopper, happy to upgrade with the club suit) and that pushes them up to 4D which is down 2

[@jyutzler]

Ooh, I missed the 2NT bid on #2. I doubled a second time which pushed them up a level and just gave me the same problem all over again. Since I wasn't willing to declare I had to give up but -140 was still 68%.

[@carloingravalloba]

In board 7 the bid ended in 2H making then 11 tricks. Why not by S an 3H inviting that allow to get 4H having a maximum in North's hand ?

[@deborahculler2973]

How do you see how the others bid? You do it so rapidly I cannot figure it out. I have clicked on everything I can think of and cannot get a list showing the other bidders and their bids and results as you do. Always fun to see you. It amazes me how you can so rapidly figure out what cards are in the bidders hand when the opponents have won the bid.

[@BridgeWithPete]

You click on where it says the contract on the left

[@deborahculler2973]

@@BridgeWithPete thank you

[@smallmetalowl3209]

Curious that your misclick on board 1 causes East to go up with the ace on the first round of trump and end the drama on the hand early. Not that this impacted the result, as there's really not much of a way to mitigate 4-1 trumps regardless. Board 6, I got cheeky with my favorite 14-point 1NT, and things got adventurous. West came in with a 2C single suiter and North bid 2NT lebensohl, followed by 3D over my 3C relay, which apparently shows a splinter and club suit. I decided to try 3H hoping it was a cuebid, and now partner bid 3NT which ended the auction. KD led and I won and ran clubs. The discarding was catastrophic to the point that, by the time the clubs were done, I was down to my four hearts and all of them were good. Well done with the slam bid on 5 and the endplay on the last board, both gutsier than I could have managed.

[@Supatag]

15K, nice one. Well done!

[@jyutzler]

I bid the slam but I played for 9-x instead of J-x. Oops! #7 I passed 1H and that goaded a different lead making +170/+200 impossible.

[@foxterror100]

Who is meow meow?

[@BridgeWithPete]

Yamgnow is the name of a viewer who watches live on twitch.tv/peterhollands I play the sessions on Tuesday and Thursday at 3PM Australian Eastern time.