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How cruel is BBO that day?

With the teacher I had, it would be 1♣ followed by 2NT every time. Unless she was bidding it, of course. With experience, 1♣ and probably 4M over a 1M response, 2NT over 1♦, muttered imprecations over pass if playing online.

I'm too rusty at directing to give a perfect answer, so I won't. Your question reminded me a time where p opened 1♥, my RHO overcalled 1♦, which I accepted so that I could show my 3-card support despite having 0 HCP. Nobody found it as funny as I did.

What makes sense to me would be North having a tweener, something like 11 HCP and six hearts and an unwillingness to open light in first or second seat. Maybe it's a 2=6=2=3 quack with poorly placed honours or someone who's had weak jump shifts drilled into them by a poor teacher.

Classic tweener. How frustrated/manic am I that session, and how much do I loathe the opponents?

Ignorance or lack of practice. I've given what's a blindingly obvious statement of claim (to my Aspergers mind) and had it rejected often enough that I now just play it out until it's impossible for me not to win all the remaining tricks even with playing errors. It's just not worth wanting to strangle the director.

I think you have to be such a person to understand their motivation.

3NT - AKQ in the suit (I played Ogust for years before reading this; I've never seen opener have that hand) Min/max is lower/upper half of HCP range; good suit is 2/3 top honours or 3/5 for the more manic adventurous players like me. It's a great convention for finding major-suit games where all the honours are on the short side, which happens suspiciously often in predealt hands.

I can't remember where I read that psyching against weaker opponents is unethical but it's something I agree with. I've actually had to issue an excessive psyching warning against one club member. As you might guess, a strong player using it against weaker players several times in a few months. He's one of those players who stopped showing up when I was directing.

I'd put inconsistent as my level if BBO allowed it. I already have it at the top of my profile.

A combination of frustration and mania.

Even at the virtual club level this seems to be a problem. I can often tell from the first round if it's going to be a session of 5% layout after 5% layout. A waste of time and money that sucks the fun out of bridge that has adversely affected my bridge game.

I cohabitate with my bridge partner. I like cohabitating with my bridge partner. So no, I would not open this hand in first seat.

I may have come close for telling a bridge bully to ***** off after a particularly nasty round. It's no wonder he's missing so many front teeth despite claiming to get along with everyone. EDIT: BBO used one asterisk too many.

In several years of directing twice a week at the club level, I saw exactly one hand passed out at every table.