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1♦. Other bids never came to my mind.

1D.

Win with ♦A at trick 1 (what else can you do?). Cash ♣A and get to dummy with ♠A (Trick #3) and finesse with [CJ] if East doesn't show out. If lost to ♣Q or West ruffs and opps keep play ♦, pitch a ♥ and a ♣.

I was going to write my answers and found identical ones from Fluffy.

Agree with Marlowe. I usually like to show my second suit, unless the second one is tooooo weak, like AKQxxx vs. jxxx.

I am on the same page with caigao.

lol. There is only one trump Q. If you ask your pd if he/she has it, you imply that you don't have it. When you have it, you know your pd doesn't have it. Why asking?

I agree with Marlowe.

North could have bid 5N. So I assigned most to North.

Agree with Hannie.

Chuck, As I said, I am as stubborn as you are. If you don't stop, I won't. To open with 10-11, or 9 at 3rd or 4th position? Could you show me an example (even you played with other pd)? Everytime we play as pd, you set up cc. If I asked you "no (rev)drury?", you would say, "we open full".

3♦.

mike, As I wrote in my previous post, we agreed to open FULL in any seat.

Since I am used to std carding, I would play ♠8 on both holdings, assume pd lead ♠A/K.

Audrey, Glad to see you here. I did learn something from this thread. Maybe I need to change my style a little. To bid at one level after opps' interference, could be 4-card only as if no interference. dbl over 1D shows 2 majors. How about 1S over opps 1H overcall? 4-card or 5? I was used to NFB as some of you know. I removed NFB from my profile a few weeks ago.

I would like to add something here. The purpose to post a hand here is not for winning an argument. As I said earlier, if my shape were better I would not bother to post here even if Garozzo said I were wrong (I knew I was right). I post the hand here because I have some doubts. Sometimes when most posts disagreed with mine opinion, I also told the other party (usually my pd) that most people agreed with him/her. Some friends who ever disagreement with me can prove this. I am stubborn, and also acknowledge my mistakes. When I was (obviously wrong) and I would say "sorry" immediately. When I recognized I was wrong (more thought, or learned something from this forum etc), I would talk to my partner I was wrong. It is true that I went back and talked to chuck that "most votes agreed with me." This is purely for improvement on bridge. While chuck thinks he is better than I am (might be true), he almost always says in such a way "teach you...", "you never learn...". The thing is I don't have any idol with whom I don't dare to argue. Fred is true expert here, that yet doesn't mean I have to agree with him 100% of the time.

You apparently get emotional, chuck. First of all, you started commenting on the bidding. After you told me to stop I stopped. But then you started again, .... You said the polite way is to stop when the other party asked so. As almost always the case, you then you started again. I would added "the polite way to ask the other party to stop is to stop yourself. It is true that I passed and I don't think it matters as we agreed that we always open full. If it were any difference, it would say it supports MY side, because I had a maximum passed hand, supporting ♠ (and ♣). Back a few weeks ago, I unintentionally made you unhappy by starting talking to you at the wrong moment. But as always, I don't mean to irritate any person. It is true that I should try to keep quiet while playing with you. Well, as I told you, I am as stubborn as you are if not more. I am sorry to make you not happy. But you need to calm down a little.

Thank everyone for your response. I held the hand and bid 4♠. 1♦ overcaller led stiff ♥ and his pd had ♠A and gave him a ♥ ruff. 4♠ was off one. My pd was mad at me, even my opps (friends) said I shd bid 3♠ only. I didn't agree and my pd (kind of friend) left. His hand was ♠Kxxx, ♥Kxxx, ♦Ax, ♣Kxx. BTW, don't you think my pd should dbl over 2♦ to show both majors? I did consider 3♥, but was afraid of misunderstanding. After all, my black QJs were gold supporting pd's suits, and ♥AJT were (almost) equivalent to AQx. If the shape were a little better, I would bother post here even if Garozzo said I were wrong. I am used to bid 5-card suit after opp's overcall, X could be one or both majors.

agree with Paul.

pass, wtp? :lol:

You held ♠QJ10x, ♥AJ10, ♦xxx, ♣QJx, and pd opened 1♣: pd rho You lho 1♣ (1♦) X (2♦) 2♠ (3♦) ??

same here.

18 HCP, 7 controls and a fit for ♦, facing an opening hand, I would try slam without second thought.

I agree with Fluffy. :P :P

I would struggle between 2♥ and pass. I might pass though.