Card Combination 7.29.24
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- Опубликовано: 17 сен 2024
- Knowing common card combinations can really help improve your declarer play. This one comes up a lot and on this hand, knowing how to play it is the difference between making the hand and going down two. We looked at the bidding on this hand in Cue Bid Over Michael's 7.22.24.
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Good lesson, thank you. Wonder why south didn't ask for kings after hearing they had all key cards?
Might have been the potential wasted values in the heart suit? Or the concern that west was so distributional. We want to bid 6 if we have a 50% chance to make it, but only want to bid 7 if we are much closer to 90%. If they had asked for kings, they would have found out they were missing the king of clubs and only bid 6 anyway. But your question is a good one. It's probably worth asking for kings.
I've been told to not use Blackwood (or keycard variants) when holding a two-loser doubleton. I guess South could have bailed out at 5S if North showed only one Ace, but ... I'd like to hear your thoughts on the bidding restriction mentioned above.
This is a very good question! The rationale for that restriction is that you could be missing the ace and king of the suit (in this case, diamonds) and keycard won't tell you whether or not you are. If possible, a control-showing cue bid sequence is superior (and sometimes you can do both) to make certain we have first or second round control of that suit. In this case, I believe south's assumption was that since they had 19 HCP and north had promised 12 HCP with the 3h bid that it was unlikely the partnership didn't have first or second round control of diamonds. Combine this with the fact that in order to have a control-showing cue bid sequence we have to have both agreed upon a suit and know we are going to game, it is very difficult to initiate that sequence here. South has to make a forcing bid while agreeing upon hearts to make that happen and it's very difficult in this auction, so south just rolled the dice. Sometimes, interference can take away our tools (part of why we interfere in auctions!) and we just have to do the best we can.
not easy to see this trap
Learning how to work through card combinations is difficult. But once you learn the process and practice it, it gets a little bit faster and a little bit easier each time. Soon, you will recognize common card combinations like this one and won't even have to work through it.