What a bid!

Sylvia and I play that two of a major shows 5/5 in the major and an unspecified minor with 4-9 HCP.  While I do like to be on the higher end of the range vulnerable you don’t get appropriate hands all that often and when you do I just think you should bid them, good suit or not.  So I opened the hand with two spades.  This was passed to my right hand opponent who had no problem with a takeout double with his 18 HCP.  His partner whose spades were much better than mine passed as well.  Now it was Sylvia’s turn.  She thought a long time but it is these judgment situation that Sylvia can come into her own.  She knew spades were bad for us (although perhaps not quite as bad as this) and she bid 2NT.  Now it was my turn to think.  Could 2NT be asking for my minor?  Not really.  I actually think that 3C in this situation is for play and that redouble asks the minor. 

You need to get going in hearts to beat the hand but on the natural lead of the club king the hand was cold when the spade suit blocked.  Sylvia enjoyed this hand a lot although she did make a disparaging remark about my anemic spade suit.  In the other room our opponents bid to 1S doubled on our hands, making.  There doubled partscore was not game though so they lost a lot of imps.

Then there was this auction which I rather enjoyed in some ways.   Let’s call this one “What An Auction”

Sylvia and I have fairly minimal notes but there is no reference to open 1D with longer clubs, something I had purposely omitted.  I suppose that Sylvia did not want to rebid the club suit, rebid 1NT or reverse into diamonds so she decide to just do it.  The three club overcall made our auction much tougher and I have no idea why Sylvia did not double three clubs.  When I reversed into spades and Sylvia bid 3NT it seemed to me that she was very likely to have five diamonds and I was not done with slam yet.   So I raised diamonds.  When she bid 4NT I had a bit of a problem.  I didn’t think it could be keycard even if I had found her diamonds.  If she didn’t want to play in diamonds she just had to have two hearts.  I bid five hearts which I hoped was a strong slam suggestion.  When she bid 5NT I bid the heart slam.  I have a feeling that this auction was a fight from the three level on about playing notrump or playing in a suit!    However as you can see from the cards we had arrived in quite a good slam and one which was cold despite the 4-2 heart break.