razorsharp

EZ peazy - you bid your 2!D. then the fun starts - on the next round depending on who you play, what you hear, & how you feel about "walking the dog". You are worth game, but how about 2!S-3!S - 4!S?

EZ peazy - you bid your 2!D. then the fun starts - on the next round depending on who you play, what you hear, & how you feel about "walking the dog". You are worth game, but how about 2!S-3!S - 4!S?

EZ peazy - you bid your 2!D. then the fun starts - on the next round depending on who you play, what you hear, & how you feel about "walking the dog". You are worth game, but how about 2!S-3!S - 4!S?

EZ peazy - you bid your 2!D. then the fun starts - on the next round depending on who you play, what you hear, & how you feel about "walking the dog". You are worth game, but how about 2!S-3!S - 4!S?

EZ peazy - you bid your 2!D. then the fun starts - on the next round depending on who you play, what you hear, & how you feel about "walking the dog". You are worth game, but how about 2!S-3!S - 4!S?

GROW UP, bridge players! The incredible advantage of Mini-Roman 2!D opener (10-12+ HCP) is magnified by P-P-P-2!D, allowing the best contract to be found and preempting them effectively. Can't give that up, esp. considering the frequency. 4th seat ACOL 2- major and 3-bids are clearly best compatible treatment !H

Get real, BBOers. theres noway to describe or elicit that you can legitimately construct. Even if u thought you could, - how would you ever trust the BoltHead's bids? JUST BID 6!H/ 1D and take the practical view to the probable right spot and save time, agony, and ultimate psychological breakdown

Pure Goldilocks Syndrome: 6!H tastes TOO HOT 4!H tastes TOO COOL 5!H feels juuuuuuuuust right (implies !S control, obviously) Your fault, dear partner :(

as long as i am budgeting for 2 trump losers & a !D (or vice-versa), I choose to bet on partners !H and not my !S. EL PASSO :)

I was preparing a psychotic rant that shames all idiots who believe 2C is anything but non-encouraging correction of 1NT. That's because you shouldn't treat the ambuiguous 1C as a real suit in many common situations, like this! (Also like the nebulous 1D Precision opener) Our "tongue-in-cheek" rule is - "If we ever Q-bid Clubs over them, we either GOT clubs - or we DON'T GOT EM (You work it out, pard!)" I guess that leaves 3C jump here as natural inv./force? But wait - I now admit we surely DO need a force - so I repent my hate-sin! And I offer in expiation the 3!C jump-Q here as the artificial force! That's OK - we still have 2 good highways to heaven - choose 3NT or 5C - God bless us, every one! Razorsharp

Sorry, I meant to suggest P - 1S - 2D - 4D Wormwood, not 4NT RKB

Sorry, I meant to suggest P - 1S - 2D - 4D Wormwood, not 4NT RKB

Very interesting! I would open a weak 2D N and S responds 2NT, fetching a JOgust rebid of 3S = 6-card D, great weak 2. Then S bids 4C RKB(D) then 6D. Rule: 4C by responder directly or on next round is RKB for 2 or 3 level preemptor's suit. (Over 3-opener I play a modified downward RKB) If 2D is systemically Micro-Polynesian, etc. I PASS then 2D/1S, Now South rebids 4NT RKB(D)

If you open 3C, you should gird your loins and be prepared to REBID 4NT if opps steam & scream into 4S (maybe even 4H?) THAT will surely stun the viewgraph audience!! But for me, I'll put my money on opening 3NT (we play NUMNUTZ, so that = 1-suit 4C OR 4D preempt(6-7 winners at these colors), saving 4C & 4D openers as strongish 4H & 4S pumped-up "preemptz". 3NT still gives you a chance to play 3NT, you gotta admit! :)

Good morning & Merry Christmas everyone! (even my enemies list on BBO) We and all the world celebrate the birth of the baby Jesus - even though He was born in early April of the year 4 B.C. Just like me to get another loved one's birthday wrong, again! But isn't it the thought that counts? I plan to eat plenty of bacon for breakfast, then later go out & shoot off all my rifle bullets into the air, as is traditional in my neck of the woods!

I'll just bid what I think i can make - 5D = 10, 4NT = 4, X = 6. great problem!

I'm all for 3S here - not a diaster (yet). PhilKing says it all 4 me. Pray tell us what bid crushed our poor LuckyLoser this time??

2H MUST be non-forcing in modern bridge, sinc 1S is 7+. That colors my belief that I have resemblance to a "moose" - perhaps only an "elk." At matchpoints, I'm barely OK with elking 2S. But at IMPs, I trumpet 3C, channeling my inner MOOSE! razorsharp

WOW! What a dilemma! Toss-up between X & 4NT? Pass is pusillanimous, as action(s) probabaly improve our chances. Over 4S opener, X is "takeout with many QT's" (3 or is it 2? GULP) 4NT is any 2-OR-3 suited takeout. Theoretically, partner's 5D/4NT pull would be "pass or correct" but I'd probably leave it in unless LHO whakked it out!) I vote for 4NT since I'm S-VOID for offense+, and they have so-big a fit that 5S is imminent. My 3rd QT on D is very suspect. Both sides could make here, but if EITHER side makes we probably should be bidding, eh? I rate 4NT=10, X=5, P=2. trust me!H I'm razorsharp

"Logically" I play 3NT is the stronger way to game, ie 15-16. 2NT then 3NT is weaker, like 11+ - 14. Ergo, West should bid 6NT/3NT straight away. Razorsharp

Zealnd's line is straightforwad & seems clearcut to me - "PARANOIA strikes deep - into your declarer play it does creep" but c'est la bridge razorsharp

AHA - just ask that to Grue, Woolsey, et alii - 3S is a relay to 3NT, (defaut) showing a typical balanced opener with ONE spade stopper! (i.e. Axx,Qx,KQxx,Kxxx) that may gain a positional advantage from opener declaring 3NT - like holding SQxx, even maybe Jx! razorsharp

Dontcha wish you had PASSED your trash? Garbage in, garbage out! But now, facing extinction, I'll guess 2NT instead of 3H, as 10/11ththths of my HCP are outside OUR suitz! razorsharp

The scientists have had this one right since 1927. Pure & simple, a "THOUGHT PROBLEM" solved logically. 5H shows headless H support Qxxx or xxxxx and a totally solid hand outside - PLUS at least one VOID! Having a void confounds the use of Key-card Blackwwod, and how can you excpect to get to Exclusion Blackwood from here - the opponents are about to erupt and spoil your party. "Bid one heart higher, partner, for any A &/or K of trump!!"