Hanoi5

It's a terrible hand but at least the hearts are well placed.

I think South should bid 5♣ over 4♠. I'm not sure pass is forcing, though.

Responder held: ♠Kx ♥8xx ♦Axxx ♣Txxx Should partner bid 4♣ over 3♠?

I'm asking for key cards. Two and the queen and I'm getting to six. If it isn't on I'm having a little chat with partner about the meaning/reason for 2/1 f.g.

The guys at the 1st Youth Congress gave me the file with all the hands played during the swiss tournament, all the cards were as likely to be led to the first trick. No last trick there though. I'd think it'd be more or less the same...

[hv=pc=n&s=sq84hajt9642dacq9&n=st976hk83d864cat4&d=e&v=b&b=10&a=p1hx2h3d3h4cpp4hxppp]266|200[/hv] Let's not talk much about the bidding. How would you play trumps after winning the ♦K lead with the Ace. MP's.

[hv=pc=n&s=sajt96hqj72d9cak4&n=s432ha986da6432ct&d=s&v=b&b=7&a=1s3c3sp4cp4dp4sp5sppp]266|200[/hv] What was worse 4♣ or 5♠? West leads the ♥10, it's MP's, how do you play?

W/R, MP's: ♠A ♥AKJ ♦T8 ♣AQJ987x 1♣-(Pa)-1NT-(2♠) ??? Would you prefer opening 2♣? How do you continue?

If you play Baron, which you might use with 4054, then it's a cue-bid with 6+ diamonds. If you don't play Baron and had no better way of showing clubs, spades and diamonds, then it's natural (but then it would be dangerous, I think).

Nunes transferred to spades holding 4 spades and 5 hearts??? I really want a link to that. And a video of how it happened. The link in your post leads to a match where Fantunes NEVER played at the 2 level, and in board 3 they went down in 3NT. Could you correct your information, please? Edit: Wow! It was board 4!!! is it part of their system to transfer to a 4-card suit and then bid a 5-card suit naturally? Is it a canapé transfer or something? That was really some weird bidding sequence.

Nunes transferred to spades holding 4 spades and 5 hearts??? I really want a link to that. And a video of how it happened. The link in your post leads to a match where Fantunes NEVER played at the 2 level, and in board 3 they went down in 3NT. Could you correct your information, please?

Or partner is VERY stubborn. I'd also double. Is this hand from Lille?

East could have done more, but I also agree that you are on your own trying to bid constructively over 2♣...

I'd bid 5♣. I have 9 cards! And I don't think the auction will stop here, I don't even think partner will have the oppontunity to bid 5♦, nor that he would, I'm sure he has some clubs...

Mp's, would you do something else if playing Imp's? [hv=pc=n&w=skq5hk942dak3c865&d=n&v=e&b=9&a=5dpp?]133|200[/hv]

What's your play? Where do you expect to get? (MP's, but would you bid differently playing Imp's?) [hv=pc=n&v=b&w=s83ha2dakqjtcakt5&a=1sppx2spp?]133|200[/hv]

MP's, what do you do? [hv=pc=n&v=n&w=skjt86h2d7ca98643&a=1hp2h2s4h4spp5hpp?]133|200[/hv]

My first thoughts were of doubling and I even thought we might get rich in case we had a much better contract but then I realized they might have 8 tricks in trumps only. Then I thought 300 was too little. So I changed my answer to 4♠. Double might be better if partner were to take it out more often with 4 good spades.

5♦

4♠

Say the bidding goes: 1♣-1NT 3♣- Would 3♥ show or ask for a stopper? Does it deny diamonds or spades? What about: 1♣-3♣ 3♦ And: 1♣-1♦ 2♦-2♥ Do these bids show or ask for a stopper? What's standard? What's the best? What's the reasoning/rule?

Well I thought I was gonna get more support, so I simulated 100 hands and it turns out a spade is a 'safer' lead (it usually gives more tricks to the defense) but they are both as likely to defeat the contract. Maybe a larger sample will show a spade defeats it more often but it won't be by such a large percentage. Hearts were not a suit to develop so I'm not so sure how often we'd have two entries from it. So I guess you should usually lead a spade, unless 'you're feeling lucky, punk'.

All white, you hold: ♠JT763 ♥KJ8 ♦75 ♣542 1♦-2♣ 2NT-3NT What do you lead? Would it make a difference if you're playing MP's or IMP's?

Red vs white, MP's: ♠Q8x ♥AKQx ♦KJTxxx ♣--- Pa-1♦-Pa-1♥ Pa-???

DealmasterPro will generate the hands, give you the print-out AND the files you need to use for the dealing machine. I don't think there is a program that will do all that and THEN deal itself the hands. You'll always need a different program to deal hands with the machine, usually (always?) the program the machine came with.