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I'm sorry i didn't pay too much attention i was going to post my opinion about defense, but you just posted the hands. I was going to tell you that a low spade would give the contract here , and that i would not return club or spade, based only on the jack dia "signal" which was wrong played but still didn't give the contract. I see u tell us that u set the contract with low spade return i don't understand how... If u back spade, declarer will finesse club to ten and play a diamond pitching spade , i don't think u can ever make 2 spade trics! You have 2 hearts , 1 spade, 1 diamond...hmmm and the last trump yes.

I like the board so i want to make a comment (not necessarily expert). I don't understand the point of playing 3cl* forcing to 3h only. I really don't understand and don't like it. So if 3cl is forcing to game, the pass over 5cl is forcing and now if partner X , i pass and if he bids 5h i pass too. I already bid a lot with my forcing pass, having only a,k,k and the void. Partner could have bid more. He bids over a forcing pass and he has akqj trump. What can i have to pass forcing, when he has akqj trump ?! I would bid 6H with his hand, q spade and jx dia are a big plus. P.s. I have two questions. 1.I don't like the 3cl bid, having akqjxx trump and almost anything more. As a dilettante, and not playing conventions, i would bid 4H, Vulnerable against not, i find this bid much descriptive than the 3cl (3cl makes no sense for me). I have a very offensive hand with almost 0 defense. I don't see what I am looking for with the 3cl bid. So: is that 4H so "weak" as i need to show more, with 3cl? 2.I'm curious , will you bid the slam if P-1H-2cl-3cl-P? How?

And what ? pitch a diamond first, then pitch a heart on the next club then declarer will take the ace heart ; if u don't have the stiff king then declarer will play the last club to RHO and he will make the Q heart at the end. I don't see there is any defense. You only have to choose who will be endplayed : you or your pd.

Hey this is something i could agree with..just because i love simplicity. So if we have in system 2CL-3H showing both majors minimum 5-5 then we could manage much better. But NO 4nt ... why? 4CL cue then 4D and then South can ask keys with 4NT ( 6 keys ; 4 aces and both majors kings). N will answer 5 keys with 5H now S need to ask for a Q (i suppose 5SP for Q heart and 5NT for Q spade). Probably if he asks 5SP he will know that Q spade missing then he will bid 6H. Now 6H is safe (once S is asking keys and not N). And if N will answer both queens then he can bid 7H. I think we can ask for K diamond too , if we want to play a grand. But at least we are in 6H. Thanks xxhong . I think we can bid the slam if S will take the control. I do like the other auctions too but... 1) I do not like to open vulnerable 1D so weak (playing 2/1) 2) too complicate for me to keep in mind so many relays .

I was kibitzing an experienced pair . In that board i was not convinced that the 2D opening was useful for their contract. I do think that may not be very often (except opponents have more points than your pair ). But vulnerable against not this opening seems strange for me. Any other opinions? [hv=pc=n&s=s76hj2dqt652cak65&w=sqt2h987dk3ct9874&n=sakj98hakqt3da98c&e=s543h654dj74cqj32&d=e&v=n&b=2&a=p2d(nf%2C%205-6D%209-13)p2hp3cp3sp3np6hppp]399|300[/hv] How do u bid 6 - which 6? (prefer 2/1 system) if S passes? You need to know the J H or xx spade etc etc. I see 7 is on but seems not a good one.

The pass may not work very often. If 3H is forcing LHO will rebid 4CL or something else . Then now you will have to decide what to do over 5CL which is bad enough. When 3H is forcing and psyche and u pass,you will get psyched:) I don't know how to bid if 3H is not forcing lol. That's a big problem for me. I still don't like to pass. X?

I would return 10 from A J10x and J from A J10, and X from A10xx etc

10 P for the title :P. And a vote. To answer... what do we play? bridge... why? because we have nothing else to do... 3♠ ( i like the suit:) Edit: lol 3 was the lead so 2♠ now ( i still like the suit)))

First time when i red the post i thought S has the 8 D. Then we could make the contract against 4-0 D too ( and E 4-6-0-3 ) Does it change our declarer, if we have the 8 ?

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why do we lose 2CL if East is 4-6-2-1 There are only 2 losers in club (we discard a loser on the heart and the other on the 3rd trump..)

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Spade discard and the next heart ruff high then finesse the jack :) Ruff a club in the dummy . I think you go down with 4-0 diamonds ..hm i didn't see i don't have the 8 D in hand sry

Wow 6♠ from dummy is an entry:) I should keep my 4 in my hand:) You see u have not enough entries to finesse both hearts and spades to RHO...

J♥ after one round of trumps, to see a few more cards. If LHO wins i would play Q spade from dummy for the reason to not lose a trump in case LHO has KQ heart and single spade, and then loosing the contract. Too lazy to think further than that. I think LHO must have a good hand for a vulnerable 2CL bid so i would simply play to make the contract. In case LHO started with 4 spades, i will manage to clear the heart suit before a diamond lead (or i hope:)) What does mean 2CL, btw ?