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Yes, every time i have 5 hearts and 18-19 balanced hand with D stopper of course. I think thats what system requires?

When Harry Met Sally (1989) I had not seen this movie in years... Wonderful....funny, smart...sexy.......wonderful writing. Can a man and a woman just be friends?

Requiring three tricks from: ♣AQ98 ♣5432 and with enough entries, side stoppers and so forth to play however you wish, you lead the deuce - six; eight; ten. When later you lead the three, West plays the seven. Should you: [a] play the nine play the queen [c] play the ace [d] use some randomizing device to decide among possibilities - none is superior to both of the others.

Probably David Burn is too young to have been here when this came up the last time: http://www.bridgebase.com/forums/topic/10491-suit-combination/

I believe this to be difficult. Here is why: Suppose first that lho will play his two spots in arbitrary order and that he will play them whether or not he has a higher card. As always, treat the ten and the jack in rho's hand as equals, call them tacks. We analyze: lho has followed with the two spots, we can infer that he was dealt the two spots and we cannot infer anything else. rho has played a tack. He would play a tack, one or the other, when he held one or both (or let us assume so). He can hold a stiff tack in two ways, a doubleton Jack-Ten in one way, and a King-Tack in two ways. If he holds King-Jack-Ten nothing can be done so forget that. Playing the Q only succeeds against Jack-Ten tight so that's out. Playing the Ace succeeds against two holdings (Yes we saw the Ten, but the idea is to develop a strategy for what we will do when the 8 is taken by a Tack and Lho plays a second spot on the next round). Playing low also succeeds against two holdings. On empty spaces, I guess the ace is slightly superior. But: Suppose lho reads the position. On the second round, having started with J76, should he play the spot? If he plays the J, will not declarer reason "surely the other spot is on my right, so it must that my only hope is to take the finesse". Or suppose rho reads the position and, holding KT, takes the first trick with the King. Would not declarer now play lho for both Tacks and plan to lead twice to the AQ9? It's tough for rho to do this I think, but maybe not so tough for lho to play his Tack on the second round. And this plays havoc with the analysis.

I guess I will stand up for my fellow sentimentalist. I also like Meg Ryan. Sleepless in Seattle is a fun movie. There are various movies of this sort, for example How to Marry a Millionaire. No one would claim that they are great art, but I sit down with a little wine in a comfortable chair and let it flow. Laura is another favorite. No thought required. I don't always have the expected enthusiasm for action movies. I very much liked Rocky, the first one, but saw one other (Rocky 5, I think) and was bored silly. I have yet to see a Rambo. Robert Mitchum I like, maybe even John Wayne although it sometimes can be difficult to keep a straight face. I saw The Rookie with Dennis Quaid the other night. A certain amount of fluff, no doubt, but I liked it more than I thought I would. TCM is doing its 30 days with Oscar again this year so there might be a lot of opportunity for opinions here.

In my world: 1) They are red, we are not 2) Partner does not have 4 spades. ---with four spades and GF strength she would bid 2S, not double ---and would have longer diamonds. ---with four spades and less than GF, she would have responded 1S. 3) I guess I could not double on the last round because of the "support dbl" hamstring. 4) 2S removal of the double now would not show my 18 HCP, and suggest AJXX JXX QX AQxx. 5) I got lucky pard kept the auction alive, and can collect at least 500 at favorable. 6) The Diamond Queen is a reasonable opening lead.

Well, zilch may be perfectly innocent. But the guy named sitout is a real runner. He is never logged on at game time, so i know and never invite.