[whereagles]

Team match, final hand. You need points badly

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yer bid?

[wank]

3nt. easy

[ggwhiz]

whereagles, on 2014-March-08, 13:22, said:

Team match, final hand. You need points badly

How badly?

I read about Ron Anderson comparing a match when Mike Passel said "read em out" and Anderson said "It doesn't matter, we are blitzed".

Passel said "A hundred bucks?" and Anderson said "-1100 etc.". They won by a few.

3nt

[Fluffy]

6♣.... errrm perhaps not this time.

[Lord Molyb]

6♥
nah, 3NT

[gszes]

It is extremely unlikely we are going to score big with 3n it is a
fairly easy bid. IMHO the conditions of contest call for something
a bit more unusual I get the feeling 3N will not readily get us
the points we need. I think we need to hunt for a dia or even a
heart slam and therefore I propose the underbid call of

3d

I say this not because I think it is a great bid but I feel it gives
us our best chance of finding a slam and a ton of those elusive points.
If p bids 3s over our 3d we can still back in with 3n but if they happen
to raise dia or bid 3h:))))))))))))))))))))

[ggwhiz]

gszes, on 2014-March-09, 06:55, said:

I propose the underbid call of

3d

Good thought and not as risky as it seems with a stiff spade. If lho bids them we may avoid a doomed 3nt and if partner bids them we get to 3nt anyway.

And if partner bids anything else we may surprise them with 4nt as our next call.

[whereagles]

Thx all. Here's the hands:

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I bid what seems to be a pretty normal 3NT and suffice to say it didn't turn out well... (Teammates went 1 down in 4♠ on a trump lead.) This hand brought me "visions of Cardiff", a european championship I played on, where the wrong choice would normally net you -1100 LOL.

I suppose the slight underbid of 3♦ would be a possibility given match status. You don't need to overbid to generate swings.. you can do it the other way around