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I love BBO teaching

When you say you answered keycard, I assume you meant spades had been set as trump, which means 5H is not to play, but a Q ask.

The best I can do is 17... obviously you can't be off an ace, and the hand I construct requires a jack Edit: Read Frances' post, I forgot they can be void in the suit where their partner holds an ace :)

I guess I lead a spade and hope partner can ruff the second round of the suit... I am not brave (foolish?) enough to lead my ace. If it was cashing, then hopefully I will have time later...

Looks like a totally normal double.

I can't believe double, this hand is already offshape and missing values, and the values present are already dubious. I imagine I'd pass at the table, but reading the posts is convincing me to bid.

Thanks, I thought I was going crazy or learned everything wrong when people suggested opening 1C

Many people play 2D here as non-forcing. Even if you do play it as forcing though, your bid is NF, since you are a passed hand :D

Yeah, I looked at it with my friend for like 20 minutes, and we simply couldn't figure out the best line, so I came here.

Axx facing QT98x Best play for 1 loser?

I'm really not smart enough to do anything but win, draw trump (A, Q, back to K) and then try running hearts

Pull out your CC and look at what you checked in your "Preemptive openings" section :) Anything could be right here if you don't know p

Favorable, dealer Ax Jxxx AKJxx Jx 1D - p - 1H - 4S ?

Well, unless you play redouble as to play.

Go Team Clayton! (Sorry Justin, but it's 3 posters to 1 :))

3C is not GF, but South has to move onto game. Sure, North could show the hearts, but no matter what happens, they should reach game.

Thanks, that's basically what I wanted clarification on. I guess P_Marlowe was getting at the same thing, but I'm too dense to pick up on it.

This seems fairly obvious, declarer has no more diamond stops (you know by rule of 11), so pitch the DQ and let partner run his suit.

Sorry, North deals. I hate that 3H rebid too, I think my ideas were either to open 1H and rebid 2D, or open 1N.

I took gwnn's line :lol:

What is the difference? 3NT shows a hand, which will have a reasonable chance of making 3NT oppossite an avg. hand. If you hold a strong NT, say 16HCP, assume 8HCP for the weak, than you have 16HCP missing, on average your partner will hold 8HCP, not enough. If you have 20HCP, you have 12HCP missing, on average your partner will hold 6HCP, enough. With kind regards Marlowe You're saying there's no difference between A Kx Qxx AKQJxxx and the given hand?

Ax Axxxxx AKx Qx KQJxx -- QJTx AKxx 6N is cold, 7N is good (which obviously makes 7S and 7D pretty good too) Edit: Feel free to use any system you want, but I would appreciate a few standard or 2/1 auctions

Edit!

Does a direct 3N show this hand? It's unclear to me; I thought a jump to 3N might just show 9 running tricks, not a moose in HCP