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This is the whole board: [hv=d=w&v=b&n=sa9hq9842dj1083c53&w=s1064h1076dq954ca94&e=skq732hda2cqj10762&s=sj85hakj53dk76ck8]399|300|Scoring: IMP[/hv]

A question for all passers: You pass, your LHO bids 4♥, it goes pass pass to you. Now what?

Well, ♣A is the reason why I asked what do you expect from partner. Partner bids six card club suit, you have the ace, and your RHO shows club stopper. You are passed hand, you already passed 1NT and he still bid 2♠ with obviously not so good club suit. Holding A9x in clubs almost guarantees that you have no club loser, but partner doesn't know that and he still bids.

Pard can have 5♠ if 65

Imps, all VUL, you are dealer holding: ♠ 1064 ♥ 1076 ♦ Q954 ♣ A94 p....p...1♣..1NT p...2♦..2♠..3♥ ? 1♣ is 2+♣, 2♦ jacoby What do you expect from partner? Do you bid and if yes what do you bid and why?

Hm.... couldn't partner have, let's say: x xxx KQxx AKxxx He will bid the same, and we will make 6♣ on 2-2 clubs.

Hm... interesting problem. Pass looks almost automatic but... If pard is unbalanced with clubs we could even have a game in clubs. It is not impossible just very unlikely. Alternative to pass is double. It depends whether you are optimistic or pesimistic. If you double do it in tempo just like there is no other bid you could bid with your hand. This won't influence your partner, but it can leave impression to your opps that you know what you are doing. ;)

If partner has only sixth diamond king 3NT is on 2-2 diamonds, so 40%. I bid 2NT on both MPs and IMPs. That is exactly what I have so I'll bid it.

Well, in the system I play bidding would go like this: 1♦(1) - 3♥(2) 3NT - ? (1) 14+ natural (2) (55)+ ♥♠ GF Now responder should probably pass with obviously misfit hands. Alternative is to bid 4♥, opener to bid 4♠ as final contract. Same thing would be if opener opened 1♣ instead of 1♦.

I think this is the whole problem. If partner has only two choices it's easy, he should either bid in tempo and leave the decision to you, or take a break in tempo to decide what to do and then his decision should be final (except if it is obviously totally absurd). But if partner has three or more choices I think it's normal for him to break a tempo, and there is no UI as there is not one specific bid suggested but at least two. In this case I think that partner could be thinking about lot of things, maybe he wants to investigate a slam? After all you were preempted.

You are on the lead so it's not very likely that the opening lead was ♣Q

I think that 2NT is the right bid. Not because we will always get good score bidding 2NT but because we will put decision on partner as it probably should be. Everything else is a wild guess, and with this rubbish i don't want to guess anything. 2NT should be pretty accurate description of our hand so I bid it.

Well, I presumed that this should be a lead directing double, although iy could really be a plain penalty. So, if it is plain penalty it probably doesn't matter much what I lead as they are always going down. If this is a LD double what lead it suggests? We bid three suits. Pard already bid 1♠ to show some values so double probably shouldn't be spade oriented. Now, what concerns me is: did partner double to tell me please lead anything but spades? Or did he try to send some message about what suit to lead? I reasoned like this: As I managed to show my two suiter pards double is probably oriented on one of my suits and not on spades. As he couldn't support my clubs because of 3♦ bid by LHO, and he could support my hearts it seems to me that normal lead from my hand would be the ten of clubs. So if my partner wants me to lead a heart (because he has doubleton honor or something) then he has to either support my nonvul bid with doubleton to show the lead, and I don't like that approach, or he can double 3NT to suggest a heart lead. I'm not sure my reasoning is good so I would like to hear why. ;)

Playing IMPs I held this hand nonvulnerable vs. vulnerable: ♠ - ♥ K109xx ♦ J10 ♣ A1098xx RHO opens 1♣ which is 2+♣. I bid 1♥, LHO passes and my pard bids 1♠. Now RHO bids 1NT, I bid 2♣, LHO bids 3♦, partner passes, and RHO bids 3NT. Pass, pass to my pard who doubles to make it final contract. So it went: 1♣ - 1♥ - p - 1♠ 1NT - 2♣ - 3♦ - p 3NT - p - p - X all pass What do you expect from your partner? What do you lead?