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Define "suitable venue" please. I can easily come up with around 30 cities that would certainly be capable of hosting an NABC. I'm sure there are more.

Just curious, did you have any reason to believe that this person was a "good" player?

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Even though the 3C bidder may not have a 4 card major and is simply checking to see if opener has a five card major? And I believe that the responses to puppet are already alertable, but I could be mistaken.

So, you are "Joshing" then? :lol: As a numismatist (coin collector), I was already aware of this story, but thought I would share it: From WikiAnswers: http://wiki.answers.com/Q/Where_did_the_te...g_you_come_from "Just joshing you" came from the late 1800's and has a very interesting story behind it! Josh Tatum was a deaf mute, but a very enterprising young man from the midwest. In 1883 the US Mint came out with a new nickel. It was deemed the Liberty Head Nickel and on the reverse side had a large roman numeral V stamped on it. The new nickel did not have the word "cents" or "nickel" stamped on it. Josh Tatum noticed this and the fact that it was nearly the same size as the US $5.00 gold piece, which at the time was used as common currency. With the help of a friend familiar in gold electroplating base metal, they turned these coins into a literal gold mine. Tatum went from town to town going into shops, stores & mercantiles. He was very careful not to purchase anything that cost more than a nickel, where he would hand over one of these gold plated nickels. The clerk would accept the coin, and in most instances give Josh back $4.95 in change, which he happily would take. By the time law enforcement caught up to him, he had visited hundreds of towns & had amassed a small fortune!. The Law prosecuted him but ironcially he was found not guilty on the most serious charges, because he only purchased items that totaled 5 cents, and because he was deaf & could not speak he never represented that it was a new $5.00 gold piece. The same year, the US mint added the word "cents" to the Liberty Head Nickle in an effort to bring this type of fraud to a halt. Hence the famous saying "your not Joshing me are you"?

I said Not Vul vs. Vul (or maybe I'm misreading what you are saying). I suppose I should have said favorable. Sry. And no, it does not change how partner doubles, but it might influence how aggressively you sit or run in order to try and achieve +200/+500.

Partner forced you to agree to play penalty doubles (equal hand) of 1N openings. The opponents are vul, you are not. Your LHO opens 1N and partner doubles. Please give examples of the weakest hands where you would be willing to sit for the double. Thx.

Then he passes 3♥? wtp?

Carrot-top snowboards?

[hv=d=w&v=e&s=sqj108542hkqj73dcj]133|100|Scoring: IMP (p)-p-(1N)*-? *15-17[/hv] Assuming you have some way to show either a one suited hand, or both majors (and most people probably do), do you treat this as a one-suited hand, or do you show both majors? Why?

More accurately, I didn't know if there was some legal issue involved in creating a fan page. i.e. if it had to be Fred that creates it or if anyone could do it.

Anybody know? If not, why not?

Unfortunately, North is dealer & opened 1♣, RHO/East bid 2♠, and South has become declarer in 3N. I think it is quite likely that RHO/East will have both the A♣ and the Q♣ given the vulnerability and the outstanding available cards.

I'm sorry, I thought the World Cup was soccer. I must have it confused with real football. :)

Don't you guys already have a soccer thread of your own? Please go back to where you belong. :)

I hope you don't do this in public :) :P

(J, Jx, Jxx) in either hand = 60.82% At least, if the percentages on this site are accurate: http://www.automaton.gr/tt/en/OddsTbl.htm

About as often as he won't, and those are the cases it is likely to matter the most. Of course, if you bid reflexively, as in 5♣ wtp, you don't have the opportunity to "entertain other ideas", which basically means "to give further consideration to other bids that you might choose and the pro's and cons of each." So if you really think that you don't get points for examining your options, well....you just go ahead and keep playing that way. I really don't think that comment was called for.

fwiw, if you bid 5♣, I think it will go "all pass" all too often even when the club slam is there. Partner cannot know about the spade control, and we have no way to conveniently show it. If you bid 4N showing two places to play, and partner bids 5♦, and you convert to 5♥, he will have a better picture of your hand. He may not know about the disparity in lengths, but at least he will know about both suits, which may possibly help him to revalue his hand. However, on the off-chance partner actually bids 5♣ over 4N is when I think 4N really pays off. I think it is at least worth entertaining the idea of raising to six on the basis of the big fit, 1st round control in the opponents suit (which partner will not expect), and 2nd round control in diamonds. I probably would, but I certainly will not claim that it is the correct action. jmoo.

Huh? It appears to me that you are saying: If I am not playing Jacoby 2N, then I do not consider this hand to be worth a game forcing bid and will not commit to game and instead will make a bid that partner can pass, but if I AM playing Jacoby 2N, then I will force to game. Am I reading this right? If I am reading it correctly, then this approach is quite silly, er, sub-par (imo). The hand is either worth committing to game or it is not. If you consider it to be a game force when playing J2N, then it is a game force even when J2N is not available. Manufacture another forcing bid and then bid 4♠ if you have to, but you absolutely should not make a non-forcing bid (such as 3♠) that can be passed when you evaluate this hand as belonging in game if you are playing another method. If I have misread what you said, then feel free to disregard the above. On the given cards, I will bid 2♥ (forcing one round in SAYC iirc, not alertable) and see how the auction progresses but will not stop short of 4♠. Edit: I suppose I should've said that I will not stop short of game as it is possible there are other games available.

If I choose hearts (and I do), I start with the J from dummy, not small to the 9.

I strongly prefer 1♠ 1♦ on this...treat it as a good 5-5. like the 5-6 it actually is.

My initial reaction was to give North 100% for pulling the double. Then I actually looked at the South hand. :o 100% South for doubling with this hand. Too weak and wrong shape. What is he going to do when partner bids 5S (or even 6)? Cry? :huh:

I thought longer before posting the same.... :lol: If you play 2 trumps before ruffing a ♦ then if trumps are 2-2 you will need 2 ruffs in S and a trump as an entry to N (To keep ♠ finesse in both hands) + the initial 2 trumps => no more trumps in hand and ruff/sluff does not work anymore. ok, thx

Doesn't Pooltuna's line also receive the benefit of hearts being 2-2?