JonnyQuest

Matchpoints. Can you propose a believable auction to 6♣? 2♥ is natural. 2NT is a transfer to 3♣. You do NOT play Minorwood or Kickback. [hv=pc=n&s=sk875ha753daq2cqj&n=sa32h2dk3ckt87653&d=s&v=0&b=11&a=1n2h2np3cp3hp]266|200| [/hv]

3♦

Or better, PASS (but only when it works). ;)

0314? ~~~~~~~~~ Look again.

Respond 1♥. Do not use 2-way Checkback.

Unsurprising. If your mouth is full of the stuff, you early on develop an intimate relationship with it.

So using Pilowsky's logic, since he is Australian, I should enjoy great success against him at the bridge table. Or something like that. What an absolutely ridiculous post, Pilowsky!

The wrong bid did not get the "top score," the result did. You seem to be confusing the two. The scoring for your bid is shown above in the poll results. If only there were a common bridge term for this, this . . . judging the merits of a bid by the results I would use it here. (Sarcasm font in red)

Forget it, he's rolling . . . :blink: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8lT1o0sDwI

No, you didn't.

Posted slowly, so late on previous post. I'm curious --- why flip-flop the 1NT and 2NT route? I'm sure some genius has thought this through.

I suppose it could be played like this, but it's (the level of slam interest) a reverse of what is standard. (Texas is always 6+) Usually, Texas is used when there is either zero slam interest, or a hand that plans to bid RKC after Texas. A drive to slam. The "some slam interest" hands get to the game level by the lowest level transfer, then a game-level bid in the Major. Doing so leaves room for all manner of superaccepts, in which case subsequent suit-bids would be controls.

Not Gerber? I thought 4♣ was always Gerber?

Pilowsky, may I get a discount? I'm not sure it's worth 2 Rands. The auction provided was 2♥ - 2♠ - 3♥ - Double, with no indication of who made what bid. But you have assigned the following seat assignments, so let's run with that: 1.) "Opener preempts with 6-11 HCP. RHO bids 2♠." ......If RHO is the overcaller, this makes opener your partner. 2.) "This may be weak with 6+♠ since a double might be more appropriate if LHO had points." ......No. 2♠ will absolutely NOT be weak here. You do not preempt a preempt. (Preempts 101.) 3.) "Openers partner can either call 4♥ or pass depending on their hand." ......Opener's partner is you since you assigned the initial preempt to your partner. You've listed a binary choice. Why? In the OP auction, opener's partner raised the level of the preempt to the 3-level. That is another obvious choice of actions. There are others as well. 4.) "Over 3♥, RHO should either bid (3♠, 4♠, 3NT, something else or quietly pass." ......RHO already overcalled 2♠ and you, responder, raised partner's preempt to 3♥. For RHO to bid over 3♥, there would not be a double. Did you mean 3♥ Doubled? I'll assume so, though it is at best confusing. 5.) "A double must be for penalties since LHO has already bid their hand - such is the nature of pre-empts." ......Huh? If RHO was overcaller, that makes your partner opener. But here you have LHO somehow making the opening preempt? Maybe they moved during the auction? Where I play, once the auction begins, you are supposed to remain at that position. It's a good rule. If you first get the directions right, and are clear on who made what bid and in which seat they made it (assuming they do not switch seats mid-auction), the probability of understanding the meaning of double goes way up.

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