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You have been watching the political speeches too much. A lot of words, but nothing is said. A lot of words? Nothing said?? :blink:

A heart is normal. In heat one I'd lead the ♣A if had the right feeling about it.

The difference being? The difference between a stopper and no stopper.....

I play these methods myself, but with another 3m/3♥ combination than firmit, I believe (we've bundled minisplinters and Bergen raises), and like them better than most other methods I've come across. The 2-way 2♥ has come into existens to have two 3-card raises available for us who won't play a forcing 1NT. On the actual hand I'd make a slight overbid of 3♥ NV and 3♠ vul (as Josh). For me the hand has just too much playing strength to preempt NV.

I play 2 as natural. Else agree with Justin.

YES! 4♣ seems obvious then. Agree, looks like we're getting to slam if partner can bid 3NT.

The west hand is not a 2♠ opener to me, even playing very constructive weak twos. It's either a 1♠ (preferrably) or a 3♠ opener. Even after 1♠ it's hard to see any sane auction getting to 6♦, without some real gambling and luck involved. The only possibility is: 1♠ - 2♥ 2♠ - 3♦ 4♥ Where 4♥ shows a void on the way to 5♦. I don't think many will have an explicit agreement here, and without it, you just can't pull that trick.

Well, there's an 'other' option in the poll. And I'm playing 2/1. B) Thus I voted 'other' and explained why. WTF? No need to wtf Harald :D. It is clear from the poll options that kgr wants to know what you would bid giving the methods he was playing and your 2S bid is not part of it. Sorry Han, the wtf wasn't serious. But, honestly, why do you think there's an 'other' option. It's hard to see someone bidding anything else than the first four options playing bb79's methods. Still one out of five votes for something else.

That's not law, but regulation. I' guess a club in the ACBL could ban the use of stop cards.

Tough problem. 3NT looks so obvious at first glance, but the odds are heavily against us making 3NT. So it's either pass or double. That's close I think. Not sure I'd manage this at the table, but I'm passing.

Too good for any other action than double IMO. Other calls are too unilateral. Agree with Josh when it comes to continuations.

Pass.

To me #1 and #3 is contradictory. If you would have passed 5♣ as north (you can't think it's forcing, can you?), how could south NOT raise 5♥ with his hand? With your #1 in mind, it's almost obvious to bid the grand.... uhh, I hate to speak for someone else, but I took #1 pass comment not as pass over 5C, but as pass in 1st seat. No sane person would pass 5C with 5-card support and a near opener. Yes, I overlooked that possibility - your most probably right. Apologies to Uwe.

Easy 3♥. Agree with Josh that pass is better than double.

To me #1 and #3 is contradictory. If you would have passed 5♣ as north (you can't think it's forcing, can you?), how could south NOT raise 5♥ with his hand? With your #1 in mind, it's almost obvious to bid the grand....

Well, there's an 'other' option in the poll. And I'm playing 2/1. :) Thus I voted 'other' and explained why. WTF?

I'd raise to 2♠ with my regular, showing a good 3-card raise, a very good 8-count to a bad 12. 1NT isn't forcing in my methods.

I'm never passing 2♠ with this - that's out of the question. Without any gadgets, it's a clear 3♥. Playing Good-Bad 2NT, it's close between 2NT (bad) and 3♥. Singleton ♠, good trumps and the queen in partners suit would most probably make me chose the stronger (inv) 3♥ bid.

Yes, even more so at higher levels.

2♠, if that shows 3-card support, else 3♠. 2♥ is out of the question, partner hasn't got four of them (might have 5440 and ♥xxxx possibly).

Why not? If you bid 1♥ on four and partner raised with say 1354, you'd prefer to play 3♦ instead of 3♥, at least at IMPs. Completely disagree. If you have a min response with 4♥, it makes no sense that you would want to leave a probable 4-4 major fit at the 2-level to play in a minor contract at the 3-level. So the only reason why you would want to bid 3D is a game-try showing a double fit. True, you could be 4♥5♦ and if opener wants to reject the game-try, playing a 5-4 3D fit is superior to playing a 4-3 3H contract. But that particular situation is rare, so it does not make sense catering to it and therefore losing all the other game-try (or even slam-try) cases when you want 3D to be forcing. There's other ways to make slam tries than doing a game try first. I prefer, as often as possible, to have game tries be exactly that - game tries. So that partner can make educated decisions, and doesn't have to cater for your game try rather being a slam try. (And have to make some other forewardgoing move to let you make a cuebid or whatever, instead of just bidding game, and help the opponents with their opening lead and defence.)

That's interesting. In the ACBL a three-card minor suit opening is considered natural (and thus has been exempt from most regulation). I seem to think that the Laws have recently changed in regards to whether SOs can regulate natural calls. But, I'm curious, does the EBU consider a three-card minor suit opening natural? If so, how is it that the 6-3 canape types are made illegal? I don't think the ACBL consider open a 3-card minor natural if you can systemically do this holding a 6-card major suit. If they really do, that's pretty insane IMHO.

There are official ways of saying the year? Made official by whom? I guess Norsk Språkråd (Norwegian Language Council) decided this some years ago. Which does make it official. Is that a government agency? Or, something along the lines of Fowler or Strunk & White for English language? Yes, it's a government agency.

There are official ways of saying the year? Made official by whom? I guess Norsk Språkråd (Norwegian Language Council) decided this some years ago. Which does make it official. I'm not sure who decides in Sweden, but I think they've got something similar. It's a fact though that all Norwegians use one form and all Swedes the other.

Personally I prefer twenty-ten, in Norway we officially say totusenogti (twothousandandten) whereas in Sweden it's officially tjue-ti (twenty-ten). Twenty-ten is in line with nineteen-ninetynine, twelve-fortynine etc.