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hand is just plain way too good to bid 1n or pass (scary) I start with x it will never be passed out. 1d to 2n 2d/3d to 3n 1h/1s - 2c looking for more info 2h/2s - 3c looking for more info 1N/2N to 3n If the bidding develops and it looks like p makes a bid that promises 5 of a major I will bid 4 of the major. If p jumps to game in a major I will key card looking for slam If p bids 4/5d i will wish i had passed or bid 1n:(((((((((((((((((((((((

x over 1s/2s not enough stuff to go beyond 2s x----------- this would have been a MUCH tougher choice if my two suits had been clubs and hearts vs dia and hearts I have ELC on my side with the presented problem making the x much more palatable.

3h is forcing in standard leb--I do not view your hand as much better than barely inviational. those quacks will practically guarantee the opps will get in a couple of times and they both know what suit to lead. I would x here--I play this as a hand with at least 8-9 power(and many stronger hands) and no clear direction (since we cannot bid 2n). That is what i would choose for this hand. If p hates 2n or 3n it is not too late to introduce our 5 card heart suit and if p passes we wont be too unhappy either with our 2 spades.

hmmm I want to know why there is no 2h bid available???? if p has 4 hearts they have at least 5 spades and I can convert any heart contract to spades. I hate my xx clubs for nt rebid and find the idea appalling. I would bid 3d or 3s before I would bid 2n. 2h also offers a ton of flexibility which also includes maybe right siding NT. 2h=10 3s=7 3d=6 1n=5 2s=4 2d=3 2n=2

declarer has 15-16 hcp left outside hearts. p has 9-10 this hand rates to hugely difficult for declarer and it seems wrong to decide to give them a free heart with no guarantee we will score up 3 extra tricks. I vote for a switch to a low spade because it requires the least help from p to be successful and does not contribute a heart trick to declarer on a hand where it looks like declarer will have nowhere to throw the heart and we will get it later. Leading a low spade also lets p know how I want them to continue when they win a trick and might save us a tempo.

pass was easy but i have to admit irritating----sometimes preempts work= now what are we going to do when it goes 3s p p x p:)))))))))))))))))))))))))))

north owes south a beer (unless 4h is conventional and show 18-19 balanced) because this is a 3h invitational raise. If 4h was conventional S owes N a beer because the parnership has 31-32 balanced opposite balanced and the combined hands are just plain not strong enough vs a special ouch for south (you owe TWO beers hehe) since they are looking at a large number of quacks which are poor slam cards.

1c 1s 2d F to at least 2n 2s five+ 2n semi balanced min less than 3 spades sequence denies 4 hearts. 4c slam try forcing to 4n (3c would be non forcing and weak) 4d cue shows slam interest (bidding 4n here shows no slam interest) 4h cue 4n takes control rkc 5h 2 w/o club Q 6c missing a key card pass would love to bid 6n but too manyu hands where a dia rough will allow 6c to make and 6n at best on a finesse.

x is fine w is the one that knows the opps have a 9 card (at least) spade fit not E. W should realize the danger of either an extremely small penalty or worse opps making and make their most likely to make bid of 3n (they do have 8 probable tricks 4 diam wih lho on lead and p did x 3s for penallty. P will probably pull to 4h and that will be end of story. Sometimes preempts work but there is normally little reason for alolowing them to become disasters.

I think going through 3h first then bidding 4d (like i would do here) shows a hand interested in slam vs a weaker more distributional hand that is looking mostly for 5d (by bidding 4d over the x). after 4d e must surely like their hand with all controls and a surprise 4 diamonds and the will cue bid 4h (I would play 4n as a sign off as it makes zero sense for E to suddenly be able to take control of the bidding.) Once E shows slam interest I would bid 4n as west and sign off in 6d when I can't find the dia Q (a strong case can be made for pretending to have the dia Q since they have 2 more dia than might be expected but we will leave that in the hands of theorists for now).

i came here late but seeing the hands did nothing to change my opinion after p bids x our hand has gone from 0-7 to a GF. There is a strong chance we not only have a double fit but our club void has a ton of value for game purposes. I like the 3d bid asking p to choose a major and I would have bid 3h (not 3s) for flexibility purposes alone. If p bids 3h there can be no doubt we are going to 4h. Even with p bidding 3s I am headed for game and trust my 4h bid will describe my 45 majors and let p choose.

Exclusion is wrong because the failure to ask for the spade Q gives opener the impression you have 6 spades (it is also wrong to be looking for 7 missing the trump Q unless you have 6 spades). It seems a straightforward bidding sequence yields the best results 1n 2c 2s 4n 5s 6c (asking for 3rd round control) 7s This wont always work when opener has a huge amount of wasted values in dia and a doubleton club (probably an inevitable heart loser) but should overall be rewarded with many positive results. Please dont try and convince me 4h is quantitative vs blackwood. If I had a quantitative hand I would have bid it right from the start. It was the 2s response that allowed me to take charge of the hand.

my hand is almost as horrific as it can get i started with a 15 -17 nt hand and appear to have found p with a 6403 (using stayman then not asking about spade Q). If we are right my Spade QJ Dia QJ (and probably A) are worthless. The only redeeming feature in my hand is the doubleton club and that is uselss because anything the doubleton will take care of so will the dia A. The bidding has turned my once proud 1n opener into this: xxxxx AJT Axxx xx P already knows about the heart A and it was not enough to go to 7. The dubious doubleton club value and the JT of hearts nahhhhhhhhhhhh I am bidding 6s cant imagine my once proud hand can produce 7. I have some sympathy for those that want to bid 6d (to show the A) and I would agree with that if my spade Q were in hearts instead.

what he said but next time consider rebidding 1n with singleton A rather than representing a dia suit with essentially xxxx I would be happier seeing you bid 2c rather than 2d.

the x by opps have given you another bid to make take advantage of it. PASS followed by x invitational hand 4 hearts unsure where to go PASS followed by 3h Invitational 11 (at least 5 hearts) a bit stronger than direct 3h 3h competitive 9-10 (at least 5 hearts) and no desire to penalize opps 2h your normal system with a hand that does not fit any of the above. xx GF either a strong desire to x opps or some other GF hand.

I agree that W should have bid 2h over the original x and then E would have been much better placed to continue the bidding. Having passed and knowing P had to be at least invitational we need to choose btn x or nt or h (belatedly). Leaving the opps in 2s at MP is probably the kiss of death. I favor x mostly because we have the vast majority of the power and still no guarantee of a game. If we manage a 1 trick set it is probably a superb MP score and if the opps make we will most likely have lost little in the way of MP. P failure to x again should limit their hand to invitational.

I remember this hand p was xxxx AKQx QJx Ax we lost 2 spades and a dia making 4 I was glad I used stayman no wait im wrong p hand was AJx Axx QJx Axxx they led a spade and we scored up 4c 2s 3d 1h At IMPS or pairs with IMP scoring-It is beneficial to stretch a bit if you are responder. The stretching should always be done by responder. When responder invites they are asking for opener to accept if near top. Sort of the opposite of MP where when responder invites they are asking opener to bid game if not near bottom. Will this always work --of course not but in the long run your reward will vastly outweigh the risk you took. At MP (where stretching for game isnt important) I would pass it's that close.

MP is a different game from IMPS--we seem to have 9 tricks off the top so taking the finesse at IMPS would be a poor decision at MP the % seem to lie in favor of rho having the spade Q so taking the finesse is an odds-on favorite to improve our MP score. odd=on means sometimes it will not work that is life. I am not happy with your 3d bid anytime p is balanced you have 8 tricks off the top and since you have dia it is easy for you to correct 2s/3c to 3d. Here p bids 2s and yhou bid 3d p then has an easy 3n bid. Your 3d bid can easily be much weaker and more of a competitive type of hand similar to Kx xx KQJTxxx Kx not the trick taking monster you have:)))

I am hoping p will put me in 6 with 2 aces else i am happy to try 5c. I do not want to give the opps the opportunity to maybe find a great save in 5/6 of a major so opening 1c seems terrible to me with this close to zero defense hand. 3n from p side might work but the risk of opps finding majors is too great.

it makes zero sense to lead J from JTx and give declarer a chance to pick up a trump suit that has a sure loser (or 2) if P has a stiff K or Q. Play for the drop period no matter who you are playing against (though a beginner might make such a mistake)

I have control of the spades I have hearts stopped a dia honor and clubs stopped. I am close to the top of my passed hand the club Q would make me happier than the J but still this hand seems the very definition of 2N Passing here can be a complete disaster since we could easily have nothing and pass. If we trust p has a reasonable 2d overcall we may easily have play for 3n here by all means invite. 2n also leaves room for 3c by p which would most likely be a better spot than 3d. Raising to 3d has some promise but it increases the difficulty of reaching 3n and takes clubs almost hopelessly out of the picture. x for TO here also makes the search for 3n problematic what would/could you do if p bid 3c??

AT MP where streatching to reach game is not a huge consideration I can see rebidding 2c and agreeing that 2s is an underbid. AT IMPS we seem to agree that if the minors were reversed we would reverse after a 1s response to show the extra potential of our hand. Using the same logic---bidding a NF 2c seems to go against that line of reasoning by showing a hand that can be dramatically weaker than ours. It seems to be a rather large risk to take. 3h splinter this might steer us wrong from time to time (when we belong in 5c mostly) but it eliminates the risk of us being passed out in 2c when we have an ice cold 4s hand. The 3h bid also gets us off to a great start for any slamming we might do. If we reach 3/4s we just tell p they needed some moysian practice for the next big tournament.

the odds of p being short in clubs are rather small. In order to play for p having the short club we must start with the club K which is a favorite to be behind the A so a club ruff by p might still be nothing but a trade off. Our poor trump holding means we can never profitably ruff a heart but that does not mean a heart lead cant be a winner if p has either good hearts or reasonable hearts and the card placement is in our favor. IMO lead a heart and hope it at worst holds the opps to less tricks than the others save the heroic club lead for IMPS (where I would still lead a heart)

try to provide info on specific bid meanings if available for ex what did the x of 2c mean?? My favorite is it asks p if they have a short major (which would work exceedingly well here) if the x has no specific meaning it might be best if opener bid 3c which at least helps show the difference btn a boring balanced hand and your 1336 (not even minimum) hand. With hands in your minimum range try and get them described early in the bidding--if you delay (principle of fast arrival) it shows a stronger hand. for ex 1c 2c x p p 2h x 3h 4c is stronger than a hand that bids 3c over the original x the bidding might have gone 1c 2c x p (no further intereference) 3c 3s 3n 4c (slam interest) 4d 4s (p was obviously concerned about heart control) 6c this shows 2nd round heart control p can convert to 6n if they wish

the original "eccentric" x has paid off lets not waste it your hand is a ton more interesting than if you had a normal tox but it is also somewhat weaker. An x here warns p that you do not have a desire to bid higher and that is what I suggest. If west had passed over 5c would you have 6c??? probably not and the 5h bid should not change that decision it merely gives you another bid to help limit your hand when it comes back to p. At these colors x is weaker than pass.