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Thanks for continuing this Ben, I couldn't find all the previous links (in particular the "B" deficiency thread). I'm enjoying your blog doing this as well.

Some good players advocate leading a 4 card suit when you dont have many entries and a weak 5 card suit because it's more likely to hit partner. That said, this auction usually calls for leading a major, and the Qxx isnt worth it. If they'd bid stayman and opener had bid 2 spades, I'd've lead my diamond.

I would think hard about the heart 7, but then would lead the spade 7.

This was the one hand I got to kib. The pass over 3 hearts was alerted as showing a suit worth having partner lead (double would have shown lack of interest in the suit).

I'm not even sure there's a game to protect, but I smell a tasty penalty.

I was going to say that'd I'd duck, but after thinking about it I'll win and play on diamonds for the double hook for 4 diamond tricks. If West has both diamond honors and spades are 4-3 there are finesse or squeeze chances in hearts and clubs.

I remember my first squeeze (or maybe I blew it..I dont remember) where daveharty was kibbing me and complemented me on it and my response was, "what's a squeeze?"

I agree. I'm somewhat familiar with squeezes, and found Ben's approach unique and intuition building. I couldn't find the A/E posts of his on the subject but enjoyed the one B/I thread a lot (am looking at the B/I problem hands now).

See my previous post. If the bid of 4 hearts shows 25+ pts and strong rebiddable hearts then 6NT seems not unreasonable at MPs.

This should be unanimous, but since this is in the GIB forum, it may be that 4H conveys something different in GIB system.

another option is to bid 2NT as an anonymous splinter. This is just on the weak side of that. If I didn't bid that, Id bid 2 spades.

I for one welcome our new Las Vegas overlords.

it maybe in other situations, but only "does not exist" fits the grammar of the sentence it was used in.

does not exist

The hands where 4M makes on a no fit and 6m makes on a fit are not as rare (the no fit making implies some points, so a fit can be worth a trick or two more). I'm still not convinced about this auction.

<bump> I'm interested in hearing this too (as one of the partners). I agreed that the second auction had 4♣ as a cuebid and that with ATxxxx of clubs suck it up and bid them first (sigh). The first auction was more problematic. It seemed like the idea that "partner is odds-on to be short" is less likely, since he's only promised one long suit, and could easily have 3 card support. It struck me that this was really killing the minor suits a bit much when partner has a 2 suited hand and wants to show it.

I'll pass and hope to go plus. I have reasonable defense that it's not clear (or necessarily likely) that 4♥ is making. Additionally, I don't have so many controls or shape that I'm confident of making anything above 4♥. It may be the low road, but I'll just try to take a plus here, at any form of scoring.

pass. 2nd choice is pass.

This was played with some BBFers in a team match. These two people had never played together before and so had very few agreements. E/W are vuln and East dealt. E/W pass throughout: South held: AKQJ83, QJ865, void, K2 North held: 94, A732, AT9, A986 1♠-3NT 4♥-AP comments? suggestions?

the best part was how gib went down in a cold contract by taking an anti safety play.

I have no idea. Does he have 2236 with 6 lousy clubs and a desire to turn a plus into a minus?

Probably is, I'd be interested myself to hear what the difference is. I don't know what its standard meaning is.

double would show a spade suit. Otherwise you can expect your opponents to psyche 1♠ on you every time. Cuebidding shows more points and at least one rounded suit (potentially both).