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I need to look for another partner.

You have to get permission from the club owner to play in a VACB club, or have demonstrated history at the club. In other words, "only selected usernames are allowed to participate". In most cases, you're invited to play with a club member at their club, and the "local" requests permission from the owner to let you in. The "ACBL" BBO club is open to all players, but the Virtual Clubs are only open to those who play(ed) there, except for specific situations allowed by the ACBL. There are historical (and current) reasons for this, that boil down to "the ACBL wants the Virtual Clubs to support/reflect the FtF club they mirror" and "the ACBL doesn't want VClubs to poach players from other (V)Clubs, nor does it want players to wander the big VClubs full of fish and shark MPs from them."

One has to listen to the auction. Partner bid 3C voluntarily after you passed over 1S. He (or she) has at least 6 decent clubs and values in the red suits. Then the opps bid to 3S. They have a minimum of eight and more often nine spades. What does your partner’s hand look like? More importantly, where are your values and how well do you think they mesh with partner’s? Every card you have is ‘working’. Weak hands with working cards should be upgraded. Stronger hands with values known not to be ‘working’ should be downgraded. Change your hand slightly…make it Qxxx QJx Kxxx xx, and I’d happily pass 3S. On your actual hand 4C is clear and I’d be worried about missing game. However, I’m not sure I’d be able to bid 5C over 3S. Sometimes opps bid to 3S with only 8 spades between them. Passing 3S shows a lack of understanding of how to listen to and interpret the bidding…and/or a lack of understanding of how to evaluate working cards.

I agree with the first double. While I play 2N as two suited, I don’t understand why I’d bid 2N here….one of my suits is hearts and the last time I checked partner could bid 2H over double but not over 2N. If we’re in trouble, as we may well be, I’m all for getting doubled in 2H rather than 3H! As for the second double, I empathize given that we’re at favourable and we may well be able to compete in 3C or 3H, but I do think that sometimes discretion is the better part of valour. Would I have succumbed to the temptation? Probably not but I’m widely regarded as too conservative by my peers. I’m pretty sure that at least one of my two regular partners would double again, or at the very least desperately want to Not at imps….never at imps….but at mps, letting them play 2S on this kind of hand is more often losing bridge than it is winning bridge. And one disaster doesn’t mean much, if this style generates two good boards for very bad one, which t tends to do. At imps, however, the size of the disaster matters, and it could be large. Btw,I think that this problem would garner somewhat more reliable answers if presented solely from north’s point of view…few posters would openly admit to taking an action that we can all see is doomed! Finally, btw, passing the double is appalling. Partner asked us to bid either clubs or hearts. We have three clubs! Bid 3C.