Partner | You |
1NT | |
? |
[Oh, I know it IS called "Bart," but I'm not convinced
that it OUGHT to be called "Bart." I did a little research
on the convention once. The earliest written note of it I
could find was in the 60s. It was then attributed to
Bobby Lipsitz. I'm pretty confident, however, that Les
Bart is responsible for the idea that if one is playing
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I'd've bid
After getting a bunch of answers, though, I see that about
half would use some version of Bart, and half would bid
Partner thought bidding
RHO | You | LHO | CHO |
Pass | |||
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If you double,
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The whole hand was
x KQJ109xx Qx Kxx | ||
AKJ Axxx Axxx Qx |
10xx xx KJ10xxx x | |
Qxxxxx AJ10xxxx |
An interesting question is "which trump?" If the clubs
are 2038 around the table with partner's having Jxx or
K10x, leading the
CHO | RHO | You | LHO |
Dbl | |||
Pass | |||
Pass | Pass | Pass | |
What do you lead?
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x AKQxx xxx QJ108 | ||
K9xx J10xxx AJ10x |
A10x xx KQxxx Kxx | |
QJ8xx x x A97xxx |
The low diamond lead works on this hand for a strange reason.
Partner wins and probably plays another diamond (all that work
for nothing!) Declarer crosses to the
The reason a middle diamond is more likely to work than the small one is that on a couple rounds of trumps or diamonds at some point we are going to have to discard a diamond or two. If we lead the small diamond and discard or play the jack and ten, declarer might wonder. If we lead the jack and play or discard the 10 and the small one, everything looks normal. Even the 10 lead followed by the other two small ones makes sense when we show out of trumps, though there's more of presumption that once I've done something odd, maybe I have underled an ace. Fortunately, I don't play jack denies leads!
RHO | You | LHO | CHO |
Dbl | |||
Pass | |||
Pass | ? |
a) do you agree with your bidding so far?
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One problem with
Folks who like bidding
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A10xx Qxxx 10 AJ10x | ||
KQJ98xx AKxxx x |
J10xx Qxxxxx Kxx | |
xx AKJxxx Q98xx |
The
The actual result has nothing to do with the problem.
Partner's
I wasn't really considering that anyone would lead the