Apollo81

The vulnerability screams "pass"

Well, the responses to this have convinced me at least that it is not an obvious decision, and that I should have posted it in a Standard bidding context.

4♥. Unambiguously shows great diamonds, short hearts, and a good hand.

I think it's still a no brainer to try to play in clubs. I'd cue 4♠.

If playing positive responses to 2♣, I think one could have the auction 2♣-3♣-3♠-4♣-4N-5♦-5♥-6♣-7♣ I think it would be more common to end in 6♣ though.

1NT, then pass 2♠, raise hearts to game, bid 2NT over 2♦, or raise clubs to 3.

For those that care about the actual deal, partner had a 6241 min and the last making contract was 3 or 4 diamonds.

I think pass and pull is weaker when the auction isn't GF, but I could be wrong.

My first thought was to go for the "safety" of the diamond fit, but really opener could be 4432 here. 3♠ for me.

That's not what that sequence shows. In fact you could have 6 or 7 hearts and a singleton in partner's minor.

That's not what that sequence shows. In fact as Frances said you could have 2 or 3 stoppers for the exact same sequence.

They're cubic zirconium

playing 2/1 obviously everyone's favorite hand after a 1♠ opening: --- QJ10xx AQxx K9xx

assume 1♦ promises 2 which is normal for precision

the 3♣ option in the poll was supposed to be 3♦

all red imps QJx Axx KJxxx Jx 1♦*-(3♣)-? *Precision

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1. The North hand made a light, but not completely insane double. 2. Why didn't East bid over the double? Maybe he cannot NFingly bid diamonds playing whatever methods he's playing. 3. 3♣ looks like quite a s t r e t c h to me. 4. North certainly has no extras in any context after his initial double, so should pass whenever possible. 5. Given that I don't think West has a good enough hand for 3♣, East's hand is huge at his second turn. I think making 7 is as likely as making 5 or less.

The standard approach with 3-card support is to normally raise, but bid 1NT followed by 2M if you have a very poor hand. The effect of doing this will be that partner will be less likely to make a game try. Thus I'd say 7-10 total support points (including the OP hand) should raise directly, and hands with 5-6 total support points should start with a forcing notrump. IMO this is not the same as constructive raises.

I also think this is the normal approach when making 2♥ the three suiter

The worst things about this system, in order, are: 1. The 2♣ opening is forcing, and describes a set of hands where responder will commonly want to play in 2♣. 2. The 1♣ opening can be a single suited club 12-16 or any 17-20. This means that an unbalanced 17-20 with primary clubs and another suit will be virtually impossible to show. 3. The forcing 2NT opener will be a disaster pretty much whenever opener has a strong 2NT and the field is passing a strong 2NT.

Pass. I have one more diamond than I promised, but I have two spades where I might have one or zero. Besides, partner knows my hand way better than I know his. Even if all this didn't make it clear, on top of it all, we're red!

1. Pass 2. 2♣, planning on either raising to 3♥ or rebidding 2NT Second one is kind of a gamble, but I think the chance of finding a lucky heart or NT contract makes this action have a higher expected value than transferring to clubs and passing.

♥J

Normal 3♠/pass.