Two-parter

[mczen]

Unfavorable, teams

AQJ xx AQJxx Kxx

Partner deals and opens 1C. RHO bids 4H. You double, LHO passes, and CHO pulls out 5N.

(a) WTF is 5N?
(b) What's your bid?

Comments

[jianantonic]

Invitation to slam in NT? Cause 4N would be to play?

I think 6D is my bid.

Josephine?

[anonymous]

(a) GSF?
(b) 6C

Pard's got a BIG hand

[lenv1]

Pard bid 5N, forcing to slam, when I might have doubled 4H with something like AQxx Kxx xxx Kxx, so he's got the nuts, but not spades. I expect something like Kx A Kxxx AQJTxx, so it's hard to see how I won't roll in a few overtricks in grand.

7C

[csg87]

5NT should be pick a slam. The only bids I would seriously consider are 6C and 7C. I think I'd bid 7 since I have such a good hand for what I've shown, but at the table there's a chance that I'd wuss out and just bid 6. I have to admit that the small doubleton club scares me, as well as the possibility of a diamond ruff at trick one. The "right" answer should probably depend on (1) my partner, (2) the match state, and (3) who are the opponents at the other table.

[csg87]

Whereby "small doubleton club" I of course mean the small doubleton heart. Whee.

[nobleshore]

On the auction alone I'd have said 5NT was GSF, but this really is impossible given P is missing both dA and cK.

My guess is that it's pick a slam and pard has Kxxx Axx -- AQJxxx or Kxxx Ax Kx AQJxx or x Ax Kxxx AQJxxx or some such. I'd bid 7c.

[nobleshore]

I think the first and third example hands are much more likely than the second since he didn't bid RKC spades, but there's no explaining some people