Hanoi5

White vs red: ♠AQ ♥ ♦KT98xx ♣KQJxx 3♥-Pa-??? What's your plan?

4♦.

A couple of weeks ago I saw 'Happy-Go-Lucky'. If you see it around my advice is: RUN AWAY!!!

I'd pass too. Partner can still bid anyhow.

I agree completely. You can contest a score by giving reasonings and it might be taken into account but in the end it has to be the host decision. After this contest is finished you can run the next if you feel you can do a better job (and I believe no one will do that, because it's quite time consuming and because with Ben's experience and method the scores given by him will be highly accurate).

I'm going yellow on the first one: Pass. On the second one I'd love to play 2NT for the minors, but since I don't 3♣.

I'm nuts...

I'm online and able if a pair wants to do the contest now.

I think North could have done a little more like bidding 4♥ right away or doubling 3♦. 3♥ is too little.

http://buzz.yahoo.com/buzzlog/93848?fp=1 It's the Millenium Falcon.

'Fixed' scale. It may be open to discussion but it won't be dependent on other participants results only. (Or maybe even).

Enter BBO and look for Inquiry or Hanoi5.

I have less than 2000 and I think this should be private.

This is for fun, no doubt, but it is definitely unfair if some people can use 'help' and some can't. By using memory aids, system notes, etc the pair would not be competing at the same level as everyone else, therefore I would not mind a pair using any aid of this type (notes, memory aids) as long as they do it without consulting each other or others and they have a handicap of 20% or 25%, i.e. if they get a 10 it would become an 8 or 7.5 for comparisons purposes. Of course most people would have to agree to this, especially Inquiry. Edit (after reading Fluffy's post): It is true cheating can't be 'checked'. But everyone knows it is not good, and a pair who takes too long to bid the hands (I believe 1 to 3 minutes should be enough) will begin to look suspicious.

5♣ Exclusion KC!

I'd bid 4♣. 1. 4♣ 'cause I want to compete. I hope we have a 9-card fit and if partner has a maximum he might get us to a makeable game (xxx AKxxx x AKxx and sometimes with less). 2. Passing is too cowardly unless these are opponents who pass and later get to game, making it. 3. Why bother doubling again when we have already found a fit?

Yeah, MP's is always better for this sort of contests (and it's almost always done like that). Somewhere I asked and was told the same.

1♣-1♠ 2♥-3♣ That's a good start on your way to 7♣.

I think the orange 6 (I don't quite remember his name) notices what happens and makes a little face. Or he just follows the ball?... But I think he notices something and turns his head...

All white, my partner dealt and we arrived at 6♥x after this sequence: 1♦-Pa-1♥-1♠ 2♥-3♠-4♥-Pa Pa-4♠-X-Pa 6♥-Pa-Pa-X All Pass ♠--- ♥AQ9x ♦A98xx ♣Q7xx ♠Q876 ♥KJ8x ♦KQ ♣KT8 ♠A was led, how do you plan to make?

Pass, Pass (after the corrected bidding sequence), 6NT (4NT if my partner might open with 19 or I'm too scared).

I play: a. Either 11+ without fit or 13+ with a fit. b. Limit raise c. Pre-emptive.

With both red you were looking at: ♠T7 ♥K986 ♦Q94 ♣AJ65 The dealer on you right opened with a Multi 2♦, your partner bid 2♥ which was natural, 2♠ on your right, 4♥ by you and 4♠ by opener. It was passed round to you who double and lead the ♥9, getting: [hv=d=n&v=b&n=skqj963h5dt2cq982&w=st7hk986dq94caj65]266|200|Scoring: IMP 2♦-2♥-2♠-4♥ 4♠-Pa-Pa-X All Pass[/hv] ♥9-♥5-♥A-♥4 ♦K-♦A-♦4-♦2 You see declarer take out the trump ace from her hand and think and then play a trump to dummy's KQ, which clears the suit (partner held 2 trumps). ♠4-♠7-♠K-♠2 ♠Q-♠8-♠5-♠T Now comes the 10♦ from the table: ♦T-♦3-♦5-??? How do you defend?

1. Pass 2. 2♦, but I don't like it. 3. 4NT, wtp? 4. 3♥, what's a man to do?

Or football/soccer mod at least! Nice job Aberlour.