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03/05/2024 Tuesday Game Post-mortem Session
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Sun, Mar 03, 2024Mine UsluelDuplicate TournamentsNews
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For further info about the topics mentioned in the post-mortem video, take a look at the following lessons:
Board 4: Two-way New Minor Forcing
Board 8: Continuing after the Forcing/Semi-forcing 1NT
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Hi Gavin, 1) On board 3 just to confirm my understanding if the shape of hand was 4342 you would still bid 2♣ correct? 2) How do you play 1♥-1♠,2m-3♠ ? Is 3♠ 6 card and GF or just 6 cards and invitational? Maybe this should be part of your 4th suit GF class.
1. You are correct. That's the one distribution where responder might have a doubleton club. 2. 3♠ is played as invitational here.
Board 3, if you switch the K♣ for the K♦ in west's hand, is there a way for EW to avoid what appears to be a poor slam? Board 6, how does S know N has 3 keycards and not 0 on the prescribed auction? Couldn't they have something like xxxx KQJ KQJx xx?
On board 3 that's a very good question. EW might reasonably reach slam in that case which isn't so great. But west could always have the jack of spades, making slam reasonable. And the opponents might lead the ace of diamonds. On board 6, north wouldn't show a club control with that example hand.
Thank you for your answer! For board 3 that makes sense. For board 6, I accidentally put the cards in order as displayed rather than in suit order, so the minor suits are reverse of what I meant (should be xxxx KQJ xx KQJx; or anything of the sort where both controls could have been kings.)
HI, I HEARD YOU MENTION ON BOARD 6 THAT YOU NEVER BID 2 CLUBS TO SHOW 2/1. IF YOU DONT HAVE 5 HEARTS/5 SPADES/5 CLUBS, HOW DO YOU EVER BID 2/1 TO SHOW A GAME FORCE?. I BOUGHT YOUR 3 VIDEOS ON 2/1 AND I DON'T REMEMBER YOU EVER SAYING THAT. THANKS, BOB
What I said on board 6 was that 1♦ pass 2♣ promises 5 clubs. You have other bids to make when you do not have 5 clubs. You can respond 1M with 4+ in that major, or jump to 2NT Game Forcing. If you play 1m pass 2NT as invitational (not what I teach in the master series but commonly played) then 1♦ Pass 2♣ only promises 4 clubs. I go over 1♦-2♣ GF in the minor suit opening class. Its very important you do not conflate 1M 2/1 with 1♦-2♣. 1♦-2♣ is its own animal. A very difficult auction that is made much harder if you can have only 4 clubs.
Hi Gavin, For board 6, how should S bid if the bidding go 1D-2NT-3C-3H-? Thank you so much for all your efforts.
south bids 4♦ to show 6+ Diamonds and 4♠. Now the auction develops like it would after 2N opening 3C-3H-4D. Responder can pick between 4S or 4H (4H = good hand for spades... first step for the major see: 2N opening response structure class). Over either one the 6-4 hand keycards and bids 7. I dont have solid agreements for these situations, but I try to apply the same methods I play in similar situations to navigate these types of problems. Again I would avoid using 1m-2N with 4 card majors when I am not 4-3-3-3, unless I have a REALLY good hand for NT.