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So I bid 1, hoping my partner and I could roll our opponents. I really didn't think I'd be able to take much with this hand, given that I had no Spades. Since I had no Spades, I knew everyone else was holding more Spades than usual, on average. I was counting on those Spades to win most of the tricks.
Alas it was not be! Here's the final score:
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Not only did our team not roll our opponents, we got rolled ourselves. We each wound up taking 2 extra tricks (IIRC our opponents had a total bid of 6).
I'm making this post because I'm curious to get comments about what you'd bid with the hand above. You can see the situation. It's near the end of the game, and I'd like to bid 5 so that we could possibly end with a win, but there's no way I'd get 5 points out of my hand. Possibly I should have bid 2? But we still wouldn't have won, even if we hadn't rolled. Anyone have a better idea?
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I would have bid 3 and kept my fingers crossed.
I'd have bid 5. Your comment that "...I'd never be able to make 5" ignores the fact that Fishing might be able to get 2 or 3 tricks given your high cards and the distribution. He also gets the lead to start the game.
:)
Interesting idea... it might have worked!
I would have bid 3. Your P has the lead and I would hope he would start with hearts. You take the trick with the A and lead back low or high, your choice, hoping your P can trump. Then sit back and wait for your other high cards to be led....
no bots plz @June 20, 2015 at 5:19 PM
- I wish I remembered the history of cards played, but the details fail me now. If you'd bid 3, would your plan still be to try to roll the opponents? Even with a 3 bid, chances were good that West would bid at least 4. So if they made their bid, then the game was theirs - unless we could roll them. It seemed imperative to do that at least.
oh heck, i never think of rolling. i only think to set. its a rut i fall into all the time, so no i wasnt thinking of rolling the opps....
Ah! I had no confidence we could set. Figured rolling was the only way out.
Since they they only needed bag, you didn't need to underbid by two, which is what you did.
:)
- drdammit
Usually when trying to roll the opponent I will underbid a bit. If I bid properly, I'll be trying to take all tricks possible, leaving no extra ones for the opp. However, if I underbid, I won't feel uneasy about throwing tricks away.
I understand. I'm new to the game, what can I tell ya'?
:)
-drdammit
Is this another one of those cases where you are joking? You play pretty well for a newcomer :)
No way this is a nil hand. I would bid two here, since there are several ways to make it i.e. either the Ah flies, or you put the lead with LHO to make your Kd, and the Ac is a pretty safe bet.
When making your bid, would you take into account that both teams are nearing 500 points? Or that the opposing team is at 9 bags?
I think your bid of 2 is completely valid... However, I thought by throwing away the King of Diamonds, I might push a bag onto the other team's plate, which would be helpful with the current scores.
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