TylerE

3♠ is preemptive. At least where I'm from, you don't make a preemptive raise with 2 outside quick tricks.

Is North a passed hand or not? It makes a huge difference.

How about this: Have them fill out slips with their choices, in a ranked order. Place the slips in a hat. Draw a slip at random. That person gets their highest ranked available project. If none of the five listed are available, put it in a seperate stack. Repeat until none are left in the bag. If you have any in the second stack (If you're really lucky you won't!) Then those people get to pick for the list of remaining projects, in the order their slip was chosen. I make no claims that this is optimal, but it seems fair (at least in the aggregate) and has the advantage of being easy to do.

2♥ for me. While I admit things could go badly if partner has a not-quite-2/1 type hand (But then again, by opening this hand playing 2/1 I've already bitten that bullet), I'd much rather make a bid that will show 4 more cards of my shape, rather than a bid that shows one more.

Doesn't sound like they have an agreement, so it can hardly be a psyche or deviation to me.

1♠, because if the auction starts 1♦-1NT I'm hating life.

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Looks ok to me. To take some sort action seems somewhat clear after the transfer is passed @ MP. If anything I wonder if it isn't the ethical bid, as X would cater to more posslbe north hands.

How the heck did it go down 3? Was partner Xing 2h on 9xxxxx?

I'm gonna go about 99.9% with West. Some of y'all must be bidding 3♥ on a lot less than i'd expect for it. IMO it's a more of a courtesy bid to give partner a chance to bail with drecky 6 counts.

Think of it more as rewarding the defenders who didn't muck it up.

I really hate how the new diagrams don't work well on non-desktop browsers. It wouldn't be hard at all to throw a basic ASCII diagram in a <noscript> tag, or better yet just give us a user preference.

Just as a note the notation for a double is X not P. Much friendlier to those of us with less than perfect vision.

The idea being that if partner can't stick in a bid at some point we're perfectly happy to defend. Very close between pass and double here. Something like P=10/X=9/1N=1 for me.

Ugh, no way. 1NT overcalls in general rarely lead to good things happening, and I don't see any upside to overcalling with this AT all.

What I find more bizarre is that 66% of the field was awarded masterpoints. I thought it was supposed to be the top 30% of the field+ties?

I'm gonna make the pragmatic bid of 6♥ over 3♦

I'll use hand diagram when fred agrees that's insane to use 10 instead of T in hand diagrams.

Also (at least in the ACBL) high on the list of "bids I don't have a better (legal) use for."

Selection bias...

2PASS

I don't think NS get anything. 4♠ is W a/o G imo, opp. a passed hand. Not sure what I do for EW.

Would assume so. They can't ban natural bids, much as they'd like. I've had a 4+♣ + 5other 2♣ opening ruled legal.

Honestly I can't even imagine. Pretty sure they were already pushing 5.x when I signed up - which was almost 5 years ago.

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