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or they balanced differently with your partner's hand, which would make getting to game a hell of a lot easier.

have to say double wouldn't occur to me, interesting hand anyway. I've polled it over on BW https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/bidding-problem-2-9m5okzinfw/

I wouldn't be that fussed about missing 4H at MP. Think your partner has an interesting decision, can't fault 2D but I might have tried 1N.

It's a bit conservative, but I would just bid 4S. Of course it's very easy to construct a hand for partner where we make a (grand) slam and they can't move, but equally forcing it to slam could easily be too much, and 4S has to show something pretty reasonable. Think it's basically a guess between taking the conservative view and ramming it into slam ... interesting hand.

Mike is right that this is totally a partnership style issue, but if you're a novice/beginner level I would definitely recommend passing with this sort of hand, at least for now.

there is simply no need to leap to 6N, we could have no slam at all, we could be cold for 7C ... 6N is an unnecessary wild guess when there's plenty of space to have a more sensible and accurate bidding sequence. I don't think I really want to be in it anyway, seems like quite a lot of work to do before we make 12 tricks if the spade hook is off. and if south leads a spade to 6C, which I think they probably should, it puts us to a decision straight away. could imagine a sequence like 1D - 1H 2C - 2S 2N - 3C 3N - 4N all pass

or just play 1430 rather than 3041.

I think you were a little pessimistic, think you should probably bid 4C, there's still reasonable potential with your hand and it does show the club control/lack of spade control. You are right about partner though, keycard is a very poor bid with no idea what to do with the answer. And if they have to be bidding keycard, finding out you're only missing one, then stopping in 5 ... just a big no no imo.

can't disagree more re 2N, partner is a passed hand do you really expect to make game here?

well even with partner's insane 2C bid, 3N is still only one off, which clearly shows you bid the hand correctly imo. I don't think there's much point having conversations about what constitutes a two level overcall with this partner, either play with them and don't take it to seriously, or find another partner. Seriously, they are absolutely hopeless as demonstrated by the vast majority of your posts when they have done some crazed action that's got a dreadful board for you, and that won't change any time soon. Just play purely for fun and don't worry about the result, or get a partner where you're not on a blind guess as to what insanity they're doing on just about every board!!

EFA No expert would pass your hand unless they were cheating in some way, your partner as per usual is on crack or something similar!!

Absolute resulting rubbish from your (as per usual) clueless partner.

well sorry but it's a truly pointless question then in my opinion, could be right to lead high or low entirely depends on the rest of the hand.

I call director, if I only have a choice of 4 cards to lead from something has gone wrong!! ps obviously I'm being sarcastic, but it would really help here to see our complete hand, maybe we don't even want to lead this suit!

Totally shocking about Warne, the greatest bowler in cricket history. Absolute genius.

I agree with Mike, for sure there are certain situations this is a blatant psyche, this really isn't one of them given our hand. Of course bidding could be right, but it's well against the odds.

I can see I was in the wrong here, and I apologise both to the director and to Diana for unnessecarily bringing her into it. My only defence is that I fractured my ankle very badly with a dislocation in September and have just in the past week returned to work, so I'm in a reasonable amount of pain a lot of the time, and my stress levels are through the roof lol. Still, I should have judged the situation better and I apologise.

I have just been playing an ACBL tourny on BBO, I had a difficult hand and thought for no more than a minute when one of my opponents called director. I said something along the lines of, "Ffs i'm thinking". I was then given a reprimand and told not to use offensive language by one of the directors. I mean for christ sake, isn't there any common sense? CAn't the directors actually look at the hand, see that I have a genuine difficult problem? FFS is just a part of colloquial speak nowadays. Sorry but this whole situation really wound me up with the director speaking to me like I was a naughty school kid.

close, but I would bid 1H

Seems pretty much like a guess between spades and hearts, I go with a spade.

if you polled 100 experts on that hand, I can almost guarantee that none of them would bid 2C. It's just a bad bid, deserves to find partner 3541 or some such where you're down in 2C and cold for 4H. I think it's a pretty clear double, can't give up with this good a hand, but even passing is significantly better than 2C. your partner is just plain wrong.

first thought is cash three spades ending in hand, T diamond,

passing is saying to partner "Please never balance again" a difficult problem as others have said, but passing is absolutely nuts.

Mike, I think you're great the last thing I want to do is have some drama!