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I like the idea but it looks more like a 2NT opening rather than a 2NT rebid .The 2♦ and 2♣ are easily confused

if i were to bid , i would double showing willingness to bid 6S but i do not think this is the hand for it . My offense to defense ratio is good but not exceptionnal . Not clear the opponents know what they are doing and even if 5S is actually a 3 suiter with a spade void,it is unclear they have landed into their best contract (for all I know they may be cold for 7C or actually belong to 6D or 6H ).

:) you would think so. Actually, after I have made up my mind on what is being suggested . This was very interesting during the 7S hand : i was following Weinstein and thought about a first round spade finesse ! I do it too when the hand seems to present no problem and declarer or defender (generally Fantoni :))takes for ever to play . Then it is quite interesting to see what Kit has to say about what the declarer may be considering

Agree . Actually, i usually close the chat window (never listen to voice commentary) and choose to kib one of the player . What is most important for me is to have a skillfull vugraph operator who is able to catch the alerts (bionic ear or eye since players are usually whispering or their writing is not legible). A few commentators stand out though : Kit obviously and too rarely Michael Rosenberg.

I used to for many years . However I felt the quality dropped around year 2000 (or may be it was just me losing interest) + I had a lot of problems with missing issues because of international mail .

Not sure what is standard in the US . Here, most people would interpret 5x as an asking bid (the logic being you cannot expect the preemptor to have too many outiside controls and his partner is unlikely to go slamming missing controls in 2 suits). The tricky one is 4♠ over 4♥ (to play or asking bid ?) If 5x positive cue bid is standard where you play, it would seem a better idea to bid 5♣ as 5♦ seems to imply you are missing the club control

You are right ; the hands are supposed to be posted at the end of the session (and yes, i get the same error message as indicated by 32519). Guess my post was not clear; i was watching on BBO and was expecting to get real time travellers at the same time the cumulative score was updated (i will not have time to review all the boards afterwards but was surprised by some actions or actually nonb actions like letting opponents to play not doubled and wondered how they fared) . This is probably not possible for security reasons and/or it is too difficult to run the final barometer style

you are so demanding; posting hand records and more information (travellers, session ranking ...) might make the event interesting and this is to be avoided at all costs .

FWIW I agree with your partner pass . bidding twice with a flat 18 count can turn out very badly . This is the kind of hand which supports opening 2♣ or 2♦ (italian way) with 18-19 balanced . Playing standard, I think responder should bid 2♦ lest partner should have the dreaded 18-19 notrump hand (You may survice dbl then 3♦ invitational but pass seems wrong). Nice hand to discuss with your favorite partner :)

Partner denied 4♠ (I assume SEF or something similar) and while 6NT could have no play facing a yarborough, i cannot imagine stopping below 6NT and i do not have tools to investigate a possibly superior minor suit slam . So at the table i would probably try 5NT asking partner to choose bewteen 6 and 7.

call me chicken but I would bid 4♦ at IMPs (my partner can't be 18-19 balanced if that makes a difference). This is possibly just bad bridge since I seem to be in the minority (or others where preempted by Jlogic answer :)). I have always underestimated the value of 9 of clubs ...

yes happens only with FF (Chrome is ok ) : this seems to be a flash issue . I have seen a few threads around this but no resolution so far

This seems to be a new (unwelcomed) feature : when a player takes too much (how much is unclear) to bid or play he gets booted from the table (after getting a message like xxx please play) and it is a hassle to reconnect him (he seems to need to log off from bbo and the table owner needs to reserve the seat anew) . Note this is not tournament play and just an imp table with all seat reserved . Any way to get around this ?

Fred, thanks for your answer. This is indeed what I meant.

Somehow , i am not able to kibbitz a player (which i find very useful when watching vugraph) in the android version (cannot find the equivalent of right clicking on a name or options/more options) . May be i missed something otherwise it would be a nice addition . thanks for the wonderful bbo experience anyway