brian_m

I certainly pass 1M openers with a misfit when I'm sure we don't have enough for game, that's probably somewhere around the 9 HCP threshold, although obviously it depends on the hand. One thing you should be doing, though, is to alert these *possibly* unusually strong passes unless you're absolutely certain that your opponents are familiar with your system, it's grossly unfair to let opps walk into trouble if they don't understand that your pass could be that strong. As regards your question about the 7-8 HCP hands with support, this depends on your system. My preferred methods are to go via the forcing 1NT for a "normal" raise, and to play 1M-3M as pre-emptive and 1M-2M as very strong, game forcing and a slam suggestion, and this sequence starts off our asking bids. Brian.