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I've already opened 1H so rebid 1N.

Double. But partner has xfers: 3H->S then I try 3N; jump 4S can play if S-Hx.

1. What did redouble add to 15-17bal? Good clubs? Yuck! 3C -- hope partner can guess well. Prime cards, not quacks so good defense? 2D -- offensive hand. 2. 2D 'where I live' first round. Now does partner's pass promise minimum? Pass Let me clarify my 1N? Double.

Goren had opening leads ranked by preference. Do that unless you can convince yourself 'not this auction'.

4 losers opposite an opening bid! Can't bid on because of a 'slow' 4H??!! Surely blasting 6H was likely winning. Yet trying a 4C force first gets a 'slow' 4H forbidding 6H??!! Bizarre!

If 2D-waiting accepts GF, partner can 2N to allow exploring. Why 3N? Why no 2S? Sounds like running clubs --that's not good!

No one else seeing an anomaly at 22, I take it?? Let alone at 7 and 12 but lesser?

Yup, yup semi-positives by a passed hand since that's where the majority is. But an unpassed hand has too many upside possibles to use up space with semi-positives (or catering to may be semi).

I have been charting tricks won vs hcp and find 22 succeeds 1/3 as 21 and 1/2 as 23. Finding no reason to explain this, are others finding this anomaly? Is 22 just a confluence of overrated Q/J for example? Is 22 "heavy" in quacks?

May I raptor 1NT to get above their spades? Though it is backwards.

Partner asking a zippo to bid 4-level and I have D-single +AQ+KQ? 4NT alerts partner to slam somewhere; can you bid 6M/6C? Or not with 5M/5C.

I sure hope partner can do something in 4-seat.

2NT to tell opponents they have a BIG S+D double fit AND the S-honor or length /D-honor or length is in partner's hand. Then any borderline slam they try is surely making with those inferences. Lose big; win small this time!

How much does partner pass on? The 15 needed to score game? NEVER! They took a preempt risk verses our partial at best. Bid to fool them into we have game going values??? Their preempt won a partial -- let it go.

What's wrong with wait and see?

WHY? Hope to avoid duplication of HH opposite HH or HHx w HHx? Ask for those specifically. Magical 4-4 or 4-3 (even once saw 4-2) grand?

Put in some upper tier for 3D, eg. particular splinter + control + trump tops like spl-Bergen. Or other special slam tries with fit, whichever take space or confound 3C follow-ups.

5-3-6-0 is just too strong upside to not H-ask next after 1C. Do that even with 5-2-6-0 or 5-3-5-0.

Don't you have a forcing opening then force "just answer my questions (S then D)"?

D-void makes this mandatory reopen. Even S-QJxx. Won't like convert for penalties but even that isn't hopeless if I trust partner.

I play S-Qbid as 'our hand' forcing passes ON. So 4S-X real possible. Why show defense if penalty never chosen? Just D-raise to total number of tricks on offensive fit. So your point applies if 4D jump raise instead of S Q-bid. Now opener needs MUCH better spades under 1S overcall --that meaning is so rare as to be pointless to reserve X for that. Try 5D raise = no S-control, up to partner; P =S-single; X =SA/void as Rosenkrantz.

H-fragment hoping 3N, mainly. May advance cue for S or D-SS if big next bid - not simple preference suggesting scramble.

Didn't we already anticipate this when our 4C pushed them? Do what you decided to do if they predictably went 4S. I planned double.

Won't partner lead a heart almost always costing a trick? Risk 120 +50 (freakily rare 240 +100 if redouble) for a spade lead.

Rdbl. Switch the majors to bid 1S. Nah, no 'baby' psych. I play xfers here. Red->S, 1S->C, 2C->D, 2D->H with 2+DT, 2H/3H for total tricks raises with no promise of defense. Often gets help suit raise in, but long suit signoff or lead direct likely by passed hand.