Spicy Bridge Hands - Weekly Free

[@patryk_lewandowskiabc]

Tough luck on that 4th board :) Recently, I have encountered a way to differentiate intervention between those taking places after partner's passed hand, and before partner's pass. And the distinction is that before partner passing we want to show solid constructive hands so that the balance of the board is easier to calculate (10pc for 1 level overcalls and 12+pc for 2 level overcalls). That way, partner has easier way of knowing whether to try game etc. Meanwhile, after partner has already passed, it is more important to basically interrupt the opponents bidding or find some suit to defend (or navigate partner to a beneficial lead). Of course, considering vulnerable/nonvulnerable as well. What do you think of that approach to overcalling? In that case, on board 4, you could have overcalled 2h according to those... well, guidelines I know it's ridiculous lead that you had, or rather, other players did not have after E showed the spades on all boards, but anyhow, I would appreciate your take on that.

[@WatchParty1]

On board 1 I tried to super accept the transfer and bid 5s. The robot passed me on that one. So dissapointed.

[@yveslebrec4870]

Thank you.

[@jonthomson5764]

Ended up with mostly flat boards, only bad one being the first where I just completed the transfer and missed slam. Otherwise same on 2, 3, 6 and 8, made 3H on 4, bidding mishap on 5 where I start with 2C inverted minor, show diamonds over 2NT, then over 3NT I'm still maybe interested in slam if we can find where to play it and bid 4H to show more of shape, partner passed it but layout still allowed to make +1 for 50%, then on 7 I don't upgrade and we end up defending 2S down 1 for 60%

[@jennyfryar5197]

On board 2, I got a spade lead to go 1 down.

[@colinschloss142]

I did much worse than you this week, but I’m curious why you didn’t at least consider 6NT on board 1. It can certainly go down a lot if the hearts are poorly placed and someone has Qxx of spades, but I can’t imagine many hands where 6S makes but 6NT doesn’t, given the bidding.

[@BridgeWithPete]

I definitely should have considered it. It was a hand where I didn't think that many people would be bidding slam at all so happy to play what I thought was the best slam.

[@jyutzler]

@@BridgeWithPete This is an important point. In an open tournament yesterday, partner opened 2C and I had two aces and a Q. Partner jumped straight to 6 after I supported spades. Partner was showing a one-loser hand (the trump A) and at least one void. I was always going to 7 but the question was NT or S. I opted for spades on the off chance there were two voids or the need to ruff a slow loser. Turns out partner was 6=6=1=0. While 7NT would have earned 98%, I was more than happy with 89%. The cost-benefit wasn't there to risk 87% for the chance to gain 9%.

[@mythbusterman8541]

If you open 1c on 7 it goes 1c p 1h x xx support 1s by west now 2c from partner p p 2s by west 😄. That was quite easy to x with AKQ7 partner misdefends for -1 but 200 gets the top nonetheless .

[@richardfarrer5616]

I went one better here. The bidding started similarly, but must have been slightly different since apparently my double of 2S was for takeout. Partner bid on, then opponents went to 3S, which I was happy to double and take for 800.

[@jyutzler]

3 is another example of how awful the GIB bidding system is.