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Look at third hand club. Don't remember who published that. His point was as yours: maxpass; middling; and double negative need to be distinguished. Not much frequency for GF, so lump those into few responses.

I think their double has won this hand. They are well placed to know 4S is cheap against 4H. Little to suggest now except 4H is our best contract.

This looks a middling 1NT. Unusual to have DAK after they sac, but not worth suggesting defend as eg. DAQJ,DKQx,DAJ10 would. Pass. Don't send a "you won't like my hand for 5C/6C" message with this hand.

I think your hand merits 2C: a 1 point deviation with primes and bid the suit you have. Certainly after 1NT, a second noise. 2H seems right.

Putting a DN on the first page of responses uses a bid for a hand case that is 0.7% freequent and almost surely has no development bids. So a whole information branch is severred with 1S=DN. Seems a more frequent use for 1S is systemically logical. How much fear do you have that a second round (even, as nightmare, a 3rd round DN) will overheat your exploring auctions? Again only a fraction of a percent is DN. Edit from my Frost charts: 0:0.84 +1:1.92 +2:2.56 +3(no K):2.72 +4(no A, no K):2.60 = 10.64% is the maximum DN% when opener has exactly 16. I actually use 1C-1D(0-7); 1H demands a 1S DN, else show something more. My point is that this demand to show DN, is an asked 2nd response, Rather than 10.64% of first responses, 10.64 of the 46.01 in 0-7. How much does that take from the development of our auction? Esp compared to a 1st-round bid reserved for DN, thus losing all the follow-ups (2nd page,3rd page as I wont to say) to 1S defined another way?

Fit-bids for Hearts, Yes. Slam-tries for Spades. Just blab and let opponents easy ins to spades.

Establish equity. 11 tricks assuming this declarer WILL drive out CA, even though he wasn't smart enough to lay down SA 1st. Now consider a procedural penalty. This claim got a TD call. Is that enough to establish an *irregularity*? Nope. But I'd like my beloved game to not have this unthinking claim ever to occur. 5-0 splits DO occur.

Can you untangle 3-minor may have H-invite when next a negX, or 3H if available? I'm thinking 4m4H, 5m4H, 5H4m intends this sequence. I use xfers advances to T/O dbl, so weak advancer just xfer. GF advancer starts 2NT, include hefty H-suit invites. Invites bid after xfer: 2nd suit(likely Hearts) or a hefty fragment.

4C instead of 3C previous round? Yes, give them one chance to 4M. Now 4C > 3H shows opponents you think they have 4M. They should be able to include a 4S suggestion in their counter bids, eg. negX? A fielders choice to try penalties or 4S. I think 4C > 3H is thus a no-win bid.

Blast to 6S AND assign the blame for missing grand??? Am I hearing this question correctly? Didn't 6S blast accept might miss a grand, might be a wild guess???

Opponents avoided Majors, likely because partner has four of them. So S9. Even though this seems a tempest in a teapot- we ain't setting this one. Just defend as cooperatively as we can - let us be surprised if.

As Zelandakh, partner may have chosen this help suit just so you will have a counter help-bid. Whether to show losers here (my preference) or quacks/help here is your decision.

1C* (2S) P P dbl P .....2N-asks longest minor ..........3C-clubs longest ...............3D-weak, natural ...............3H-weak, natural .....3C-weak or constructive .....3D-constructive .....3H-constructive *** Make 2N-asks longest minor become asks Clubs UNLESS D>C by 2-cards length.

I'm guessing get to 6S and D-ruff (4-5-0-4) sets. Or 6D as LHO 1D opener has only one D-card to catch. Too small a target for me. Bid 4S.

Never try for a red suit partial when you can set 3NT. Let this hand be reopening if they stop. It's a nothing hand against 4S,5C - not even putting opponents to a tough game decision guess. Why blab?

How much have you told opponents? eg. "Don't attack in clubs from C:Kxx, South has a tenace?" "Dummy will have a hefty 5+S, so a Spade won't surrender a trick?" "Trumps are dicey, so don't lead a trump into a free finesse?" *** Hard to infer what West's lead means without telling us reply-ers what you know you told the defenders in your auction. 'What was West thinking/fearing?' has no input to our 'play this slam'. Is that Spade lead revealing? Or an expected choice?

No X, HA. But X and C6 to stop D-rufs/S-ruffs. Esp teams, this likely gets X-1..3.

Does 6C show a C-void after H-xfer + natural 4D? Seems logical as the only reason to jump. Partner can assess his SA+HA +(SK,or DQ, but not CKQJ) as grand slammy.

This is what some of very good players I know suggest as well. I failed to that at the table. I like your post and now I think I made a mistake by passing. One down doubled is better than letting them make -110 :) *** Yup, this hand looks a favorite to be losing 1xS +2xH +2xD +1xC. Oops that's 300!

With Spades, let a positive be lower bottom, say working AQ. With a minor positive starts at a good 9. Stretch to get spades into the auction modifies those 1H:5-7 to not 7points with 5+spades.

Too bad 3H-X wasn't common. What would the blamestorming be then?

"I have the Ace in my preempt suit, plus something else, so I'm not worthless in defense" But, are you sure to beat them?

Thought I should put up the whole hand: S-ruff at opening lead or winning HA sets 4H. Spade opening lead and wait for DA +HK +CQ to set 5D. Both close contracts. THIS time.

DAPO: 2-suiters show which 2-suits by bidding 3H>3D=S+C; 3S>3D=H+C; 4C>3D=S+H Partner did not 2-suite show, so 1-suiter 6+H. PASS, Partner's decision this hand. He did 4H. He didn't repeat Dbl to hear my Clubs.

Wow! Am I hearing ALL raises are packed into XX? AND all 12-15 responses into 4S? What of 1NT,2NT,3NT; 2C,3C,4C; 2D,3D,4D; 2H,3H,4H, let alone 2S,3S,4S over their X? Should some one bid be an exploring force? Just list the unused bids similarly in response to XX? An awful load of ignored bids. All the way to scarry to play a scheme so constricted.