W Kovacs

Which version of Precision were you planning on playing? More importantly, what times are you available to play? I may be interested.

That looks like the bidding from a pick-up partner a few days ago. If he had 12+ hcp, he felt it a moral obligation to compete to the 4 level, no matter how many times I passed. I had never seen so many penalty doubles coming my way.

There's no option for those of us that play strong 1♣? IF you are going to force me into a standardish system, then 1♦.

I'm pretty sure I get stuck at 6NT: 1♦-2♥ (11-15 w/ 2+♦; 16+ NT, 16+ long ♥ or ♥+♦) 2♠-3NT (Relay; 19-20, balanced) 6NT-p

I agree with 2♠. Shows this hand perfectly.

I've had the five of trumps finessed on me, too. The five was led from the table, and I had the K3 (the A was not in dummy). I thought "surely partner can cover the five, so I played low. Declarer added the four, and partner played his stiff deuce. A second trump dropped my king. Needless to say, it was a poor board for us.

I'm prety sure we get there with East as dealer: .....1♣ (16+) 2♣ - 2♦ (8+, 5+♦; tell me about your ♦) 2NT - 3♣ (5♦ w/ 2 of 3 top H; how about your clubs?) 3NT - 4♠ (1st round control; and spades?) 5♣ - 6♦ (3rd round control; pity) 7♦ (But I do have an extra you don't know about) With West opening it's a little different: 1♦ - 2♥ (11-15, 2+ ♦; 18-19 bal, 16+ ♥ or 16+ ♥ & ♦) 2♠ - 3♦ (relay; ♥ & ♦) 4♣ - 4♥ (cue; cue) 4NT - 5♦ (1430; 3 KC) 6♦ - 7♦ (good; extras) Not sure if the West opening would actually get there, though. It might just be me knowing where the auction needed to get to.

I don't have Namyats in my arsenal, so I plunk down 4♥ and pray partner has a winner or 2. And being the pessimistic type, I see a loser in my heart suit.

I'll give it a shot, though I usually am wrong.

I'm wondering if the numbers SHOULD match up between regular partners. Obviously some of them should. System complexity kind of has to be agreed between the partners. But what about bidding aggression. My partner is pretty aggressive. Knowing that, I usually temper my enthusiasm, knowing that he is known to overbid at times in competitive auctions. So that score probably needs a little bit of disparity. As for the new scales, I am on the masochist side of things, blaming myself often. I am very much on the pessimist side, in life as well as at the bridge table. I am slightly on the introverted side. I'll acknowledge good play, both by our side or by the opponents, but I don't give out kudos on every hand. I play very fast (probably too fast), but my bidding tends to be pretty even unless I need to search the memory banks for a particular bid's meaning. Playing precision, informative auctions are the norm, both to partner and to the opponents. And that damn song is now going through my mind now. Thanks a lot. Eight Six Seven Five Three Oh Niiine!

Interesting. I rated myself as 776577 after some internal debate. The post-mortems definitely belong after the session, but all negative hands and some of the postitives deserve scrutiny. :lol: For a good time call!

I'd have to ask my partner, but I suppose it might go something like: 1C(16+)-1NT(8-13) 2D(5+♦)-2H(4♥) 3D(6+♦)-3NT 4NT(Quant)-6NT He might also go via a 2♣, an asking bid for shape/strength, where we probably end in 6♦ or 6♥, so I'm not entirely sure.

It shows 4xS, nothing more. If partner does have a balanced minimum, though, I'd expect his 4 spades to be pretty good.

Pass. You've told your story, and partner didn't care much for it. You have nothing left to tell.

This was my first inclination as well.