Emerald5

Love the new color of the sign on screen. Just getting use to the new options. Looking forward to trying everything.

In this particular hand after your partners 1C bid, you must pass. The reason for this is your point count. Since you are not playing precision, there is no reason to mislead your partner. If you feared leaving him in a possible convenient minor, then since u do not have the required point count, if you insist on bidding anything bid 1NT which would better describe your hand saying both I have no points and I have a NT distribution. Still again, your partner relies on your bid to actually have what you promised. I would like to know how many points your partner had in his hand. Since you did indeed bid, then whatever your agreement with your partner was, you must abide by that convention agreed upon; therefore, at that point of no return, you must bid again.