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Faulty logic. It's fine to bid stayman on weak 44s planning to bid 2h over 2d and make partner choose a 43 fit. A very sensible MP gamble. But anyway this hand is easily good enough to invite.

bad bids sometimes work. losing trick count is pretty useless. ask him how many winners he has opposite kqx of clubs.

Yes it is.

Oh dear. This isn't in the same timezone as a reverse. I presume you've read some book that says a reverse shows 16 points. It doesn't.

Doubleton honours are perfect for 1nt. The only issue is whether the hand's too bad (i.e. downgrade to 14). Not for me though.

why didn't east pass 4s? it's obvious what's happened. it's even more obvious to pass 5s. east has no UI. west has UI but i can't see any LAs.

he's unlikely to have any on MrAce's hands - they've all got 14 cards.

I'd open 1d but i wouldn't complain if p opened 1nt

This is a common misconception when pre-empting. You often don't want to play the hand. But if lho wants to bid his 5+ card spade suit at say the 4 level he'll often be stretching to an uncomfortable level, leaving himself open to p collecting a penalty (you expect p to have some spades) and if partner has bad spades he can bid on himself.

4. Wow i've never been called an agressive pre-emptor

Not bidding would be beyond pathetic. I would rather bid a psychotic 2nt than pass.

Not really because he would often lead a non-diamond with a doubleton

maybe so, but not worth having nightmares over 2 years later imo.

dummy isn't drawing attention to a revoke. dummy is drawing attention to declarer not following suit. all bananas are fruit, but not all fruits are bananas. declarer is effectively pointing out that declarer's played a fruit. he's not pointing out that declarer played a banana, though it might on further investigation prove to be one.

that doesn't follow at all. it results in much less aggro all round for the TD to consider whether there was damage or not first and when he decides there was none, to consider the issue of MI to be moot. there's no compulsion to which order one needs to consider the factors affecting such a ruling.

this is a line i often hear but a 2 level wjo isn't very powerful though. its power comes from partner's raising it. you're losing the majority of the upside by playing such a loose method. you have absolutely no reason to think the opps have a slam on with ktxx of rho's suit and another king. partner's got 0-10 and it's more likely 10 than 0. in fact there's a fair chance they are due to go minus in game on this deal. of course if they happen to catch you in 2hx, it's guaranteed they'll be scoring more from it than whatever they can make themselves. yes this kind of stuff works against clueless people though (at the cost of increasing variance) but i don't think there's much point answering on the forum with bad bids that might make clueless opponents make even worse bids.

i have no objection to a style where you bid on much less than this, but only if your suit's sensible. here you have far too much defense relative to offense. 2H would be even worse.

i think the PP was undeserved. his partner's definition is UI for bidding but not for not answering questions. it's perfectly normal to be unsure during the bidding, but to realise later that you certainly did have an agreement which you had forgot about. many people would volunteer that they had been unsure at the time, but there's no legal obligation to do so.

I suspect you're wrong. The diagram is odd.

2425 no controls in the pointed suits, at least 3 key cards in clubs and hearts, a.k.a. a picture bid. then 6 ace blackwood over that.

1) partner's maximum HCP is more like 18 2) partner hasn't promised 6 spades 3) even if did have 6 spades, a 6-1 fit isn't as good as a 64, 63 or 44 fit. 4) your hand's good enough for game

1nt-3nt-4M is obviously to play. partner no doubt has his reasons. playing with a strong player, so no hogging, i once had the auction 2NT - 3C (normal stayman)- 3H - 3NT - 4H. i had a 3622 shape. 1NT-2C-2D-2NT-3H sounds like an offer to play a moysian, probably with weak spades. something like xx axx akxxx aqx

declarer wants to be forced - he can reverse the dummy and make ak, ak, 1 spade in south and 2 ruffs in north (2 trumps in south and 1 ruff if east overruffs). the defence need to lead trumps at t1 or after the ace of clubs. but yes 1 heart is a bad bid with a poor suit and so much defence and west had a clear protection.

pass the first time. then show clubs with longer diamonds at game level. i'm guessing (1) 4nt immediately shows equal length, (2) 4h, then 4nt shows clubs and longer diamonds and (3) 4H then 5C shows diamonds with longer clubs. i don't think any of these routes can be slam tries after passing 3H so they should all be different minor combinations. i would be more worried about missing slam than game not making but there's no sensible way to invite.

i don't see why you'd want to jump to 3h. you should be able to show your values later through a serious/non-serious thing.