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[hv=sn=lycier&s=SAKT8HKQ76DA963C3&wn=机器人&w=SQ4H854DT84CKT984&nn=机器人&n=SJ97632HAJD5CAQ62&en=机器人&e=S5HT932DKQJ72CJ75&d=e&v=o&b=2&a=P1D(Minor%20suit%20opening%20--%203+%20D%3B%2011-21%20HCP%3B%2012-22%20total%20points)P1S(One%20over%20one%20--%204+%20S%3B%206+%20total%20points)P3S(Jump%20raise%20--%203+%20D%3B%204+%20S%3B%2016-18%20total%20points)P4S(4+%20S%3B%209-14%20total%20points)PPP&p=DKDAD4D5SAS4S9S5SKSQS7D7H7H4HJHTS6C5STC4H6H5HAH9CAC7C3C8C6CJS8C9HKH8C2H2HQD8CQH3]499|350[/hv] Now you see,we lost grand slam. After jump raise 3♠,it was very conservative for the GIB to rebid 4♠,I have nothing to do unless pass.GIB should start cuebid sequences after 3♠,I think this is not good bidding style if it is unable to display the features of the hand holding.

This is a good question and an interesting thread, IMO. I would really hate to overcall 1NT with that hand initially. So, the question really is whether Doubler is bidding 3NT because of the 3H advance, and therefore does not have a (say) 19-count --- or is bidding despite the 3H advance and does have the too-strong NT hand. Would the hand with appropriate strength but only 4 hearts bid 3♥? Or would she cue bid 2♠ instead? I would simply raise this 3H advance to 4 with your AX KXX KXXX KQXX regardless of the answer to that question. This leaves the 3NT rebid as a too-strong hand with only 2 hearts.

Thank you all. I hadn't meant to hijack the hijack thread for gathering birthday greetings but I accept them. The following came to mind. At my first wedding, back when our President's first name was Dwight, one newly acquired relative would beat his fists on his chest and shout "I got eighty years". This accomplishment means more to me now than it did at the time.

Hey Timo, I respect your opinions, especially when you agree with me :).

Why is game unlikely when you have an independent spade suit and 4 losers? All partner needs is one of the following for you to have a good shot at game: A. Kx(x)♠ B. K ♥ or QJ ♥ to any length C. Q ♦ to any length D. A ♣ or KQ ♣, especially on a club lead. Literally any of these makes game likely. In terms of the rebid -- do you really want to languish in a diamond part score or play in 5♦? My rebid is double if it suits your partnership, otherwise 3♠.

I have a suspicion that this director was at risk of nailing him even if he had been procedure perfect.

Maybe best practice is to just say "director!" if you want to call the director and delay all other communication until the director arrives. However, like barmar said, you did nothing wrong and deserve a correct ruling. LHO deserves a procedural penalty for doings something before the director arrives. Karl

Thanks for your advice about hand-evaluation. Do you have any other good tips? I used the range "6-12 HCP" as an example, because those were the range and metric used in the original post. Regardless of whether your method of hand-evaluation is HCP, an estimate of how many tricks your hand is worth, or the Diego Garcian Special Potato Count, the point is the same. As responder's range widens, either you split his range more ways, or you lose accuracy. When you make up numbers to support a argument, you could at least take the trouble to check that they do, in fact, support your argument. If we accept these figures, when you're vulnerable bidding has an expectation of 11 * 0.25 - 5 * 0.5 = +0.25. Non-vulnerable you'd be right, though: 7 * 0.25 - 4 * 0.5 = -0.25. And I've no doubt that if you make up some more numbers for the frquency of being doubled or going two down you'll be able to "prove" your point. But I don't accept your figures anyway. In the context of ArtK's "6-12" raise with the opponents silent, if you only move on a hand which would move opposite a standard raise, you will miss game at least as often than you go down at the three level and would have been allowed to go plus at the two-level.

It's easy to be an economic powerhouse when you essentially have slave labour. Mandela is a large part of the reason apartheid fell, in that he was somebody the whites felt they could trust. His lack of bitterness and willingness to put everything aside and move on towards a new South Africa was a large part of the reason there was no bloodbath. See Zimbabwe for how it might have gone otherwise. An anecdote: a friend of mine was playing a bridge match at a white farmhouse as apartheid was falling. He goes to put his coat in the cupboard under the stairs and the first thing he sees is the rocket launcher. It could have got seriously messy, and Mandela is a large part of why it didn't. He was prepared to go against his own black advisors to keep most of the whites onside, and had the personality to do that without alienating his own side.

Mandela is credited with preventing South Africa from collapsing into a bloody civil war. He established the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions. He established a pluralistic democracy. He stepped down after one term rather than establishing himself as a strong man. How's that for a starter?

Tricky hand. I would not guard against a 6-1 spade break, which will not work anyway if East has three trumps. West probably has all relevant honors. This means you start with 3 losers and you must try to keep control of the hand. Finesses in clubs and hearts here look futile and are losing options, but chances must be good that the ♣K will drop in two or three rounds. Accordingly try to find out more about the club distribution and duck a club at trick 2 (key play). Use the aces in hand to ruff a third club and to play a diamond towards dummy. If a club or spade comes back win and ruff a club next to find out whether the king drops. If a trump comes back, win the ♥A and play first a diamond towards dummy and come back to the ♣A to ruff a club. If West goes in with the ♦A and can draw three rounds of trumps, West must have king third in trumps and the ♣K should drop in three rounds. If the ♣K drops in three rounds, start drawing trumps after you played first one round of diamonds towards dummy. If neither the ♣K drops in three rounds nor the ♥K on the ♥A, West should be 5♠=2♥=2♦=4♣ and you can duck a diamond towards the bare ace. If a spade is returned you can cash the second diamond honor in dummy since West can only ruff with the ♥K. Ruff the fourth club with the ♥J and finesse towards the ♥9. Rainer Herrmann