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This makes RKC unfortunate here. If you hear 5♦ as a response, you're going to either have to pass (a big position to take), or bid 6♣ off two key cards. Hopefully partner's 4♠ cue bid is an Ace (or could it be a king?) in which case you just have to find the King of clubs...still not great. I'd probably just bid 6♣ (especially if the cue bid has to be an Ace) as the grand is not a favorite, and 6 at least has chances off 2 key cards. It also puts them to the guess to sac or not--maybe that's 1.5 ways to win.

I may be wrong, but I believe that "standard" has the following meanings here: Double is responsive (although, as you don't have agreements with this partner, it's hard to say for sure). It should say you have some points, and no clear direction, but can tolerate what partner likes. 2 Hearts should show a hand like this. Since you are no longer forced to bid, your free bid says you have more than a dead minimum and a suit. This is the bid I would make. Why do you want to make a forcing bid with this hand? Sorry, I don't understand your second paragraph's question about 2 Clubs.

My duty calls to inform this thread that Someone is wrong on the internet! Hopefully you can correct this problem.

I expect my partner to have an 18-19 ish NT hand with hearts stopped and a 1 club opener (maybe 3=3=3=4? could be 3=4=2=4 or something else like that). I would expect double here to be negative, in which case I double. I don't want to sell to 2 hearts when we have 23 points and a fit somewhere.

This wasn't exactly my question. The issue was that 2NT was not described in the auction (unlike the rest of the bids). Playing with GIB it usually goes out of its way to describe the bids. Thank you for your thoughts, though. Yes, I agree. I was surprised that there was no description here, and wanted to bring it to people's attention.

This occurred during #3709 ACBL Robot Duplicate (Matchpoints). Board 12. The auction began on my left: 2H (described as weak 2)-P-P-Dbl (described as 12+ tolerance for other suits) P-2N (not described at all)-P-?? At this point I didn't know if 2NT was natural or Lebensohl. I was able to resolve the issue because when I hovered over 3 Clubs it was described as "transfer completed". Is it possible to add a description to 2NT?

That or Rain is part of the conspiracy. :unsure:

Yeah, but unlike my grandfather (a formerly great bridge player who still wins most events I play with him) he's not half blind and suffering from dementia. Causes him to revoke at least once a session with me.

And the 100% play from HHx.

Fair enough. And it's true that if I had been sure it was 0314 that I would have raised. I didn't know if GIB would make such a raise at all (if the auction had been slightly different).

I've been taught that when you have three or four keycards and partner bids RKC and signs off, you are obligated to raise to slam. I don't know if this is the same for GIB, but it probably should be. This hand came up in a free express tourney. I did not even know if GIB played 1430 or 3014, so I signed off thinking it might have one Ace, and was shocked to see three come down. Link to the hand

Thanks for your thoughts. I decided to underlead the Ace. I got lucky this time finding my partner with Kx of diamonds and declarer and dummy with 3 each. But I thought that it was still probably the "wrong" lead, and that I just got lucky.

This was really the auction. What I did is below. (full confession, I was killing time playing the free individual express tournament so the quality of any and all of the 4 players at the table is questionable).

Matchpoints. Red vs. White. In fourth seat you hold: Void, AT653, AQJT, AT43 (1H)-P-(P)-?? Thanks for your thoughts.

Matchpoints, unknown opponents. Red vs. White. You hold (in fourth seat): 3, KQ6, A9864, KT74 The auction (starting on your left, and only opps bid): 1♣=1♠ 1NT=2♥ 2♠=4♠ AP What do you lead and why?

I think my auction would be similar, but only +490 on a 4th best diamond lead...

This thread reminded me why I wish I could down vote.

This reminds me quite a bit of the criticism Obama received after mentioning that a Supreme Court Justice should have "empathy." However, both of those criticisms are quite incorrect and requires a simplistic understanding of law as the ability to "call balls and strikes." It is in fact important that a judge have sympathy (likewise a TD). How else can someone understand a claimant's position if one is not empathic enough to appreciate their individual situation. The laws of bridge are purposefully written to include subjective words because there are situations where intent matters. One should appreciate that this is not like Baseball which can be objective because all that matters is physical actions. Actual law requires empathy (or sympathy) as do the laws of bridge because the TD or AC must determine intent and are empowered to consider individual circumstances.

I agree with Nigel about agreeing with Bluejack. If at trick 5 North had led a small heart, it would have been a not unreasonable play that would have had the same cost in tricks. Playing the Jack and maybe seeing that declarer followed suit (it's wrong but I don't think SEWoG to not really pay attention to the discard at this point) should not affect the value of these plays. Out of curiosity, If declarer's heart suit had been just the King-Ten doubleton then if North now makes a bad switch on this sequence (because he doesn't know what is going on) he would be equally harmed. Is the defender supposed to guess which of these two situations he's in? Is he always granted this "second chance" because the revoke has spoiled the hand?

1) I would think North should double here. It should be asking South to make "an unusual lead." This is usually not diamonds, and tends to be dummies first bid suit. Here I'd take it to mean "lead a spade." 2) North should be bidding at least 6 diamonds, and I think 7 diamonds is the correct bid...let them make the last guess what to do. 3) I don't think West is good enough for a bid of 7H, but I think it's hard. He should probably bid 6 diamonds or 5NT as some sort of slam try. Preempts make life hard. 4) I do not play any sophisticated methods here. It's probably a situation only very experienced partnerships would have any methods because it comes up so rarely. 5) I don't really like psyching once the opponents have been bidding...they'll usually figure out what's what. I'd just bid some large number of diamonds (6 or 7, you know they have a heart fit and no diamond losers...why give them time to find it out too).

Welcome to the forums. I love your handle by the way. This is a link to the ACBL's website and has a pdf with the different convention charts. I hope this answers your question.

Cute hand, but shouldn't it be 1430 beats 1390 (won't declarer always take 13 tricks in clubs?) for +1 IMP, or 1430 loses to 2140, if they bid 7♣ for -12 IMPs?

Ah, yes. I understand our disagreement about the display now. While West is "above and to the left" of South when South is declaring (or when South is the bottom), I usually think of declarer as the bottom (as do most books and rotated columns). In the cases I presented declarer is East. In these cases, West would be above and to the right of South (when we imagine declarer to be at the bottom). I guess this is less of a "bug," but rather a personal thought of how to display defensive hands--I usually prefer dummy to be "up". In that case, the presented hands are "wrong." If instead we always think of South as the "bottom" then these displays are correct.

Please correct me if I'm wrong (I'm working on very little sleep), but South plays and bids before West, and so West should be Left Hand Opponent of South. In these diagrams, it appears that West is the RHO of South. What I'd propose is that South's hand should be in the Lower Left corner, and West's hand in the Upper Right corner (I don't care much where the green and bidding are presented, but I imagine it'd be best if the bidding were in the Upper Left corner).