The pendulum – Summer National Pairs – Session 3

Is there a case by N to raise to 6? I thought not, I have already overstated my hand by bidding 3♠ . Need a lot to make slam. And opponents bidding upto 5 level vulnerable – with what seems to be very little values, I’m likely to run into bad breaks.

Is there a case for south to bid 6? or make a forcing pass? Again, only 3 trumps. And while unlikely, a heart honor with pd is not impossible.

As it happens – ♠ K is singleton onside, and diamonds are behaving. So I was able to make 13 tricks. Those who bid the slam reaped the dividend. But for us this was still worth 54%

The two average scores did nothing to change the positions.