DavEMikeH1

Ah, right...

So we had talked about an unusual over unusual cue bid though we didn't discuss what 3H would mean in this situation. We did not talk about Leaping Michaels (though I mentioned it to him post-mortem). He said even if we had discussed it he would not have bid it feeling as though he would like more strength. Also thanks for your analysis Mikeh, I like it.

[hv=pc=n&s=saq875ha9dq93caq7&w=s92hqjt54d2c98543&n=skjt63h6dakj654cj&e=s4hk8732dt87ckt62&d=w&v=0&b=8&a=2h3d4h6dpp6hdppp]399|300[/hv] I'm ok if you also disagree with my X (since pass must be forcing) and leave it to partner, showing my potential interest in 7. At least we played perfect defense for -1100... Supposing you do bid 5H and partner obliges with 5S. Tack on one more club and one less diamond and 7D might not make (ok it would on this hand) but then you're relying on a finesse into the long club bidder...Is this too pessimistic?

The ruffing finesse line actually gains a little more. First, if North has KQ tight of spades you gain, also if South has two or less small spades and south has the KC or at most 2 hearts. (a 9% gain or so) When South shows out, Ruff in hand play AC and then run of the diamonds hope to either triple squeeze north or on the last diamond you pull a double squeeze.

[hv=pc=n&s=saq875ha9dq93caq7&d=w&v=0&b=8&a=2h3d4h]133|200|2H is 5-5 Major Minor preempt[/hv] So I had discussed bridge conventions with this partner for about an hour and a half before we played and what we had talked about for slam bidding was 1430 and Kickback (not applicable obviously here) along with playing Specific King follow-up. This is IMPS and also both partners are upper echelon intermediate players if that's important. Given this information what should I have done? I will later post post-mortem...