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Very nice article. Thanks for sharing.

GAH! just realized I mis-entered the bidding. It's much harder to pass when it's only a 1H bid instead of 2H.

I seem to recall reading somewhere a theory that people make decisions impulsively, and then (even when we THINK we know why we did them) rationalize them afterwards. This rings true to me sometimes, but mostly when I don't take the time to think about it first. Still....maybe I'm just rationalizing decisions I've already made....

opener? or responder? Responder bids spades by bidding 1NT, then spades (forcing) Opener makes a 2S bid here to show a "2♣" opener with spades.

Perhaps, but we stole it from some old notes we found (I had copied them from Berkowitz's book once), and just needed *some* agreement. This was more just for fun and if we're going to form a steady precision partnership we'll find better agreements and spend more time on it later.

My partner was the one who had to make this decision. The thing I was considering after the fact (I'll still hide for a while what he actually did) was that most of the field is opening 2NT with his hand. Perhaps it's correct to try and get to the field contract of 2NT or 3NT and just outplay them? Or should this consideration not outweigh the idea that 1HX might just be better? It seems to me like putting one's eggs all in one basket by passing.

We only discussed system for a half hour or so. My partner had expressed a desire to try precision, so this was our first attempt. The agreement was for competition after our 1♣ opening where the competition stayed below 2NT (and wasn't a double) the bids were: Pass = 0-4 X = 5-8 nothing to say Non-jump bids = 5-8 with exactly 5 card suit jump bids = 5-8 with a 6+ suit non-jump NT = conventional 9+ forcing, tends to have 5+ card suit single jump NT = 9-11 NT, balanced with stopper Cue bid opp suit = 9+ no stopper, no good 5 card suit 3NT (if it's a double jump) = 12-14 HCP, balanced, with stopper

Hi all. This happened last night in the club. A32, AJ, AQT6, AJ82 Didn't qualify for our 21-22 2NT bid, and is opened 1C in the precision system we were trying last night. The auction (white vs. red) vs. a couple LOLs P-(P)-1C-(2H) X*-(P)-?? X = 5-8 HCP and tends not to have a 5 card suit (definitely not a good one) Your bid? EDIT: Sigh....it took me until gwnn said that I couldn't bid 1NT to realize I'd mis-entered the bidding. The bid at the table was only 1H, not 2H. Happy to hear thoughts on both.

Is it like Nethack where a dead character is dead and gone?

I like free money...

Is playing the T from QT ever correct? It's late here, but it seems to me that it is protecting the parlay of partner having made a deceptive lead, and you exposing it for unlikely gain. When you see the J led, don't you want to play the "known" card. Isn't playing the T a huge position to take? I must be missing something obvious.

Does this mean that if I know what the bid means, but cannot remember if I'm supposed to alert it, then I'm allowed to look at my CC to see if the line is red? Sorry to steal your thread Jilly (even temporarily), seems like you got your answers though.

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Very reasonable answer to the first part of my question. As to the second part, when we expect partner to figure it out with our implicit understandings (be them an alignment of the minds through ages of conversation or a similarity to other situations) does it constitute a psychic bid still? I'm all for full disclosure, but I think the ethical issue you raise of not disclosing the potential meanings is something else. it's the partnership's responsibility to address the questions honestly and completely during the auction, and inform of the various possibilities at the end of the auction if not already discussed. When an esoteric possibility is not explained because it was forgotten or not considered because it is so esoteric, is that an ethical lapse?

How can it be a psychic bid when you don't have an explicit agreement about it, and furthermore the agreement you expect partner to figure out is the one you intended? Were I the sort of person to say something to this "someone from another table" it would have been, "I'm impressed you can keep track of what goes on at my table, when you don't know what the bids at your table mean."

I'd recommend Krzystof Martens' Virtual European Championship for a quite difficult (for me, but I think in general) set of problems with (sometimes curt) explanations. The translation was sometimes lacking, but it didn't matter. I still go back and try to do the same problems ever couple months.

Dude, seriously I've met you...you're too smart to not look up your own undoctored media out of Iran. They have taken the time to translate their own quotes (the "they" being the regime) and put English language banners on missiles in parades saying "Israel should be wiped off the face of the world." This is not a "misunderstanding" or "mistranslation" it is repeated and often...quite frankly, I'd like to say the benefit of the doubt is that you don't bother reading about Iran--but you seem equally loud and misinformed about whether North Korea's influence is contained: North Korea is the main nuclear arms dealer to the world's least stable and trusted regimes: Syria, Iran, Pakistan. Thank you North Korea for helping them build plants to produce weapons. I'm sure this will lead to no extra issues if/when the governments fall, if/when the governments sell their weapons to extranational groups, if/when they just decide, "***** it--MAD doesn't apply to us." North Korea's regime also makes most of their money in the counterfitting, arms dealing, and other wholesome international criminal activities genre. They are less a self-contained country, and more a mafia organization that also happens to control a country. The fact that so many supposedly well informed people have posted to the contrary in this thread is disturbing.

I think you can sue them for harassment at some point. IANAL, but I seem to recall some recent articles discussing how courts are taking this very seriously these days.

I'd start with 5♥.

To any beginners reading this thread, I thought I'd explain briefly the concept of a "hand worth one bid". This is a hand which is not going to invite to game. In terms of HCP this is usually around 6-9. The idea with such a hand is that you simply want to tell your partner with one bid the most important things you know--in the case presented that is the 8+ heart fit and the 6-9 HCP. Sadly the spades are forgotten. If you have more points as in the hand presented by S2000magic, then you are willing to make more than one bid (either inviting or if you're even stronger a slam searching hand). In this case you can bring your spades into the picture so that in future rounds your partner knows more about your hand and can make informed decisions. One nice rule of thumb, if you know what trump are going to be, bring your partner in on the secret too.

Do your opponents aim mirrors (or watch reflections) at your eyes to distract you? This would cause you to warm up.

Give me the A of hearts and take away the QJ of diamonds (but all the same shape) and I'll open 2♥. This hand is 3♦ for me.

Tonight at the club starting on my right: (2♦*)-P-(2N)-P (P)** *ALERT it's 19+ pts (note...no one asked) **Now I ask, what's 2NT?, "He didn't know what my bid meant...so I just pass when we have a misunderstanding"

True, but the position you exposed is identical to the ones held with Iraq in 1981 and Syria just a few years ago. There has repeatedly been a difference between purely technical setbacks and momentum setbacks. The loss of the sites that only constituted a 1-3 year setback in both cases, ended up scuttling the whole plan. I dunno what'd happen this time, but 1-3 years has been wrong in both of the similar situations.