rogerclee

Good raise to 4♠, says nothing about clubs.

SOS xx.

Great job, man!

I heard about this hand! A friend of mine held it, so I assume he was playing your team. Anyway I said I'd double, and then pray partner bids diamonds, so I can ask for keycards/trump quality of some sort.

Rather than intimidating me, they were doing me a favor had they called the director I would have lost the trick. It was all very civil. It seems from your original post that you very clearly designated that you wanted the high club, even though you verbally said "club." If this is true, there is no way any reasonable unbiased director would rule against you.

False!

Club-level lawyering is really funny to me. Call the director whenever these kinds of people try to intimidate you into giving up tricks that belong to you.

3♥ looks pretty normal, I guess 3NT has some chance of working.

None of this makes sense to me, particularly the thing about the void. Agree with your first paragraph though.

♣.

2♥.

3NT.

3♥, then 4♦. If partner makes noise over this I'll just check on keys. If partner bids 5♦ I will respect his signoff.

I would bid 2NT over either minor bid by partner.

jillybean is always right.

I see that MFA's Spingold team KO'd Strul's (Strul, Becker, Martel-Stansby, Cohen-Berkowitz) in the round of 64. Wow, respect.

Bidding 2♦ causes partner to mis-evaluate his hand, so I would not do that.

Well, as I said, I agree totally with your teammates. Would you really have been totally SHOCKED to write down -160? This is particulalrly true playing the methods you describe. I think I am a little "more experienced" than at least one amusing poster who made a trite and supercilious comment. However I guess that particular poster is not "experienced enough" to understand NFBs? Pass really is not a good call. (DHL, Double!, clearly does not understand the methods used either.) This link talks about level of experience, and may be helpful. It is not important how well you think you play, since most bridge players are unable to assess their own skills with any accuracy. What matters is your level of experience and the degree of success that you have had in live, competitive clubs and tournaments. And anyonymous numeric one, your point is....? His point is that you suck.

Ok I have no idea why I said I'd pass this. I would have bid 2♥.

Easy double.

I think my vote should count for at least double.

I have some inside info that the 84-seed in the mini-spingold is going to dominate.

I'd open 1♥.

ez pass?

no, pard is clee