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Why are you blaming your aggression? Blame the incompetence of your allies in the EW field. It shouldn't matter how many you open, E/W should not be missing game, or blowing the trick if they find 3nt. That's outside your control, all you can hope for is that these E/W are equally generous when you reach their table and get them as opps instead of allies. It may not even out in a single session but will over multiple sessions. I see this in lots of your posts; you get bad scores because your comparison field is abysmal (and often tiny therefore more random, since random outliers represent huge chunk of percentage on a board), or get bad scores because your partner did something rather nuts. Just worry about what are bad decisions by you, and try to get better partners or try to train up current partners. But I agree 3H looks normal to me.

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Penticton Regional Open Pairs On one round we encountered a very rare situation. Board one was weird but I think we ended up not too badly, despite the odd bidding. I was in fourth seat and passed throughout (1C) 1S (x) P 2D. P. (3N). All pass There’s nothing at all unusual about the auction….but dummy is unexpected Void void 97xxxx AKQxxxx 3 N made the obvious 11 tricks…had I not led partner’s suit we might have held them to 10. I know of at least several pairs playing 5C doubled, making 11 or 12 tricks. Turn to board two, where I’m in third seat, red v red I held KQx Ax xxx AJ532 P (1S) to me Even at mps, I think pass is clear, with such terrible shape and no spots in clubs. So P. (1S). P. (2H) P. (3H) P. (6H) I felt in my bones that doubling was wrong but I was a bit annoyed about the first board and our game wasn’t going well, so (knowing that I might be making it go even worse) I doubled. I should add that I had no idea who my opps were but they were not seeded and I know pretty much all the experts in the Pacific NW. This ended badly but the reason I’m posting is the LHO was 7=6 on back to back hands! Void QJxxxxx AKQJxx void Now, if only partner had held the stiff heart king😀