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Thanks for comments and the clarification.

Hi folks, I wonder if someone would clarify for me whether I should have accepted a 2h transfer bid from partner and bid 3S after opps 3c interference bid. We were playing SAYC, and I opened 1NT with 15-17 balanced hand and bidding was 1n - pass - 2h - 3c I did have 3 card spade support and 17 points but I passed as I didn't know my partners strength (my thinking was that transfer bid offers no guarantee of HCP, just 5 x spades) but I was told the correct bid was 3S. Is this correct or I have been misinformed? Comments appreciated. Thanks Mike

thanks all for the additional comments

Thanks vampyr

Hi People, Would someone please clarify a quick question on carding. Partner and I are defending a 1NT (15/17) open by opps. Partner leads hearts and we take first four tricks. On the 5th trick partner continues hearts and I signal a dislike in clubs. Partner switches to diamonds by playing the 8 and I am holding K,Q,J,10. 7 and 5 diamonds are in dummy as declarer has dumped a couple of low diamonds against the earlier rounds of heart and I play my King and declare wins trick with Ace. We played the remaining tricks and at the end the of the hand my partner stated that playing King of diamond on the 1st round was bad play as this suggested that I didn't hold the Queen. From memory my partner said that I should play the Queen on 1st round. Is this correct? Is there any particular diamond I could play with no agreement that would intimate that I have an honour sequence. Comments appreciated.

Thanks for your logical and informative comments guys. Plenty food for thought! Think it's time to bury my head in a few books that were mentioned. May start the dummy hcp game as well, perhaps I can win a few cokes!

Hi All, I'm a looking at ways to improve defence with a regular partner and would appreciate any suggestions/comments in this area. We play 2/1, use standard carding but use odd/even discards in all contracts. We also use suit preference signals where applicable. I wondered if it would add any value if we switched to lavinthal discards for use against NT contracts. Has anyone had any experience using coded 9's + 10's or rusinow signals, do these add any value when defending contracts? Thanks in advance for your comments. Mike