Apollo81

Which part was wrong? This was just a fact. I submit that I'm the only one that can read my mind. I never claimed that this was the right thought. We agreed right? Failing to bid 4♥ would be an easy mistake for a lot of people to make.

I rate 1♦ ahead of double. I'll be better placed after 2♣pp or 3♣pp than I would if I started with a double. The same applies to other auctions as well. Yes, especially since we both rate it last out of the three.

A preemptive JO does not help them as much as a two-suited overcall (Michaels, U2NT) does. I usually don't worry about this particular consideration when making a JO.

How does responder know opener doesn't have the same hand with QJx of clubs? He doesn't. LHO may also fail to lead from ♣Axx on this auction. The only comment I have on this is that you have opener, who has already stretched to a 3♦ bid, voluntarily both co-operating with the 4♦ slam try and then bidding Blackwood. If I were opener I would be thinking I want out of this auction unless partner can drive to slam himself. Of course the ♥A should also be a good card so I'd have mixed feelings. I'm not saying you're wrong about what opener should bid after 4♦, but not bidding as you suggest would be an easy mistake for a lot of people to make.

Before I answer any of these, it should be noted that it is much easier to get penalized after a jump overcall than after a preempt. You know RHO has a good hand, and since he has opened some other suit he is more likely to be short in yours. Jump overcalls are also much more dangerous after a 1M opening. If you had preempted then RHO with his 5 or 6-card major would bid it (saving you) instead of doubling, but after he has already opened he can make a reopening double even with a long major. Jump overcalls are similar in length and strength to the same preemptive openings. Because it is easier to get hit, this should be a more disciplined bid in terms of suit quality and shape when the JOer is at the weaker end of the strength scale. Jump overcalls should not be 5 card suits. I prefer intermediate jump overcalls (11+ to 15-) to 2-Major and (1♣)-2♦ as a conventional bid. My 3-level jump overcalls are more shapely and with better suits on average than my 3-level preempts. I do not become especially aggressive at favorable like I do when preempting. Scoring does not matter much. NV I tend to JO like I am preempting at VUL and VUL I tend to JO like I am preempting at UNFAV. Partner being a passed hand matters quite a bit when I am playing weak jump overcalls at the 2-level, as I will start to do this on some low-intermediate strength hands as well. It does not matter much for 3-level jumps.

1♦-1♥ 3♦-3♠ 3NT-4♦ 4♥-4NT* 5♠-6♦ all pass

Ditto. If partner surprised me with a 3♠ bid, my hand is not such a bad dummy.

A competent LHO rates to bid 5♥ if I pass, so I will bid 5♠ now and hope he doubles instead. People tend to always think you are sacrificing if you bid like this at favorable. I think the odds heavily favor 5♠ making and are slightly against 6♠ making.

Note: I got the original hand slightly wrong. I was 6313. I opened 3♠, probably too pushy. 3♠ was down 1 on the lie fo the cards. RHO held x xx K10xxx K1098x, so he may or may not have balanced over 2♠ (he's at unfavorable) although I strongly suspect this particular RHO would have. 3♦ (9 card fit) makes their way. The other table opened 1♠ and partner responded 2♥ on Ax J9xxx J9x AJx (after failing to open). My hand rebid 2♠ which ended the auction and made.

I concur exactly. OK, this is what I thought too (and did) partner had KJxxxx --- Kx KQxxx result was 4Sx+5 at both tables

Yeah, it's a pretty bad bid.

anyone who opens 2 needs to have his head examined

Yes, the lure of a vulnerable game, the good spots, the implied secondary diamond fit....these all lured me as well - and then it was a choice of what bid to make. pass is my second choice

No.

I think red I would still invite, but I'm gonna agree with Justin and pass.

I need to lose 20 IMPs on this board to lose the match? A redoubled making slam seems like just what the doctor ordered.

Wow. Not even in the same solar system as most in-person responses. However, this view was shared by a fairly strong-minded minority, almost word-for-word. I'm amazed to see this as the first response. This hand just isn't that good. xxx in RHO's suit, 8-8.5 losers. I don't like bidding things at unfavorable that are too far off from making/down1.

I'd pass.

exactly.

Wow. You are so screwed. No way will partner will take a jump to 4♠ as spades. I guess I would bid 6♠ -- the only bid that unambiguously shows spades.

1. 4♥. I don't understand any other bid. If our suit were spades then I could buy a raise to only 3♠. 2. Partner didn't use RKC so he has a void (somewhere), an unstopped suit, or only a slam invitational hand. 2a. In most of these cases my hand is *****. I bid 5♥. Any other call is ridiculous to me. bonus. hmm x AJ10xx Qxx Kxxx maybe?

Xfer and invite. I also think that it is a mistake not to open 2♠ with this hand.

4♣. This will work really well in three cases. 1. one of the opponents bids 4♦ and it comes back to me 2. the hand is badly misfit (for instance if partner has 5152 shape) 3. the opponents double me (we are RED at MPs)

3NT. If the overcall was 1♥ then I would certainly prefer 2♥ to an immediate notrump bid. However, here if we bid 3♥ then we run the risk of partner either bypassing 3NT when it is the best contract or failing to sit when it goes 3s-3NT. In fact, a very similar hand occurred in one of my GNOT matches where this exact thing happened. If I had 3244 shape with the same high cards then I would bid 3♥.

3s: 6-7 tricks, 7-card or bad 8-card spade suit 4s: 7-8 tricks, 8+ spades reasonable hand with 3-card support or some hand with 3-4 tricks. see above I would expect an expert to at least loosely confine to the above. I expect an intermediate to open most 7 card spade suit non-openers 3♠ (and also declare badly), so I wouldn't raise as aggressively.