jonottawa

At these colors, I bid 2♥. Pard knows I have more than zip and pip here. If I were NV I would open 1♥.

Would never occur to me that a JUMP to 4♣ would be natural here. Either Gerber or splinter. Doing that to a pickup partner is just ... On the other hand, if pard had 14 or a really good 13 he should have bid slam anyway. He already knows the auction makes no sense but should be able to discern through his partner's grunts and garbled communication that slam may be in the offing. More interesting problem at IMPs. Does insisting on ♣ to rightside the contract (and often generate a favorable lead) make sense or is the risk of xx in ♣ too great?

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As usual, there's the avoid embarrassment bid, 5♣, and the take a shot bid, 6♦. Criticizing this auction as too optimistic is ridiculous. Perfectly respectable slam try opposite a typical 1NT opener (particularly one that raises 3♦ to 4.)

Wrong section. 100% forcing pass situation if in the right section. If playing with a beginner/intermediate it's a guess and I'd prolly bid 5♥. If partner later explained why he doubled for the right reasons, he gets a gold star (and an apology if I bid 5♥.)

I would guess dementia. No need to be mean about it.

Bid on both, but the first one is close and I'm mainly bidding to avoid the 'when I make a takeout double' speech. I suspect that if you always picked the right strain that bidding is %, whereas since you won't it is mildly anti-% but not worth the grief when you're wrong.

My 30's. Haven't died yet but they're terminally ill. Doctors give them 6 months. I will miss them terribly.

But if one partner tried to lay full blame on the other here, I'd blame him more. Might try 6♦ or 5N (were you kidding?) with N. My rule is that when I open 1N and pard has 17, we get to slam unless we know we're off 2.

Bid stayman and then you have a problem over the 2♠ and 2♦ rebids. Not raising 2♥ to 4 would be criminal. I would pass 2♠ and bid 2N over 2♦ but bidding 3♣ over either would work better on a good day.

In this auction with this result, the blame always goes to the person with the better hand. In this case, I'd say that's South.

RHO passed, eh? So he doesn't have the ♠K AND the ♦K. (Else LHO has AK of ♥ and would have led them.) Consequently, I like Fluffy's line, as 2 IMPs is 2 IMPs (which taking the ♦ hook right away will often cost you.)

Dude, don't self-edit like that, gnasher gibberish is way more interesting/insightful than 95% of the stuff I read on here anyway.

A lot of monday morning quarterbacking going on here. lol @ partner's bidding competing to the 3 level with a 9 card fit and half the deck. roflmao uh, no. Some days, the bear gets you.

Any chance of an explanation for the somewhat idiots like myself who don't find this somewhat (or the least bit) obvious?

Maybe: 1H - 2D 2S - 3S 5D - 5N 6H - 7S Of course this auction isn't recommended with a partner who might pass 5♦

If I'm filling in for someone, I pass, since he obviously didn't think we could make game and I might as well honor his judgment in his absence. I try 4♥. 6-5 come alive, etc. I have 0 tricks on defense since LHO is marked with short ♠ and RHO is marked with short ♥. I'd also expect partner to have a pretty fair hand when the opps passed a forcing auction (no?) and he revived it.

I've often noticed that bridge players tend to be deficient at scoring.

Funny, bidding wouldn't even cross my mind. So how does 2♠ go down? Perhaps having both of the ♣T on defense helps us out.

I hate his 1N (on 15????) slightly more than your pass. Then HE starts the sniping? Uh, no. He made the first mistake. He made the more egregious mistake. He started whining first. He loses the ATB.

I was thinking along the same lines as Mike but I didn't want to give up on ♥ if ♣ don't break. Assuming ♦ aren't 3-3, can't you pitch a ♠ on the first ♣ and then another ♠ if W shows out, and fall back on the ♥ Hook?

The single most important lesson you should draw from this hand is that you need to work on your hand evaluation. It should never cross your mind to stop below game when partner opens 1♠. You have opener opposite opener with a 9 card fit. Other lessons: There are almost always ways to differentiate between raises based on strength and weak raises based on distribution. Learn them. Interference does not automatically justify overbidding. Sometimes interference will rob you of an invitational sequence so you bid game with an invitational hand but your inclination should be to bid normally, not to overbid just because an opp made a noise. To show a 4 card limit raise, you do not run through 1N first (at least in any system I suspect you might be playing.)

Depends if declarer is sporting a beard or not.

I would say that in addition to the vulnerability and colors, the high cards (particularly the 'face' cards) and distribution (length) of suits matter a great deal as well.

I too would double Shirley, but against anyone else I will bid 3♣. If opps only have a 7 card fit (considerably less likely missing the AQ imo,) they got me, otherwise we should be okay. If opps were vul, double is more tempting. I'm not a fan of risking -470 to chase +100.