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Vul against not 1S from lho 2h from p 4s on right Back to p who doubles Your hand Jx Kxx Xxxx Ktxx Your bid? Noone agrees with me heh. Posted by phone so please no whining about the non diagram. 2nd question, would you double (or have doubled 1s originally) with p's actual hand:- X Ajtxx Axx Aqxx [hv=pc=n&s=sj5hk76d9832ckt54&n=s7hajt83da76caq92&d=w&v=n&b=12&a=1s2h4sppdp5hppdppp]266|200[/hv]

Run the 10 of the board

i can't understand you. show the bidding and a diagram.

You play in UK, right? Then you can ignore the suggestion for responder bidding 2m on a weak hand. That's an american method, pretty much unheard of here, so your partners would take it as forcing and go more overboard.

that's what double is for

no i wasn't quoting you. weird. i was talking in general, not with specific regard to your sequence.

pass. they're at unfav. either partner is short and can act or he's not in which case we either have a bag of crap or they're going for 100s.

the problem is obviously when opener has an invite. getting to 3M on a 7 card fit would be disgusting.

slight tangent.... i played in america for the first time this year and due to crappy performance in the main events ended up in a 1 day swiss and sat down against [a pair from some nation's] open team. following an inspection of their convention card it became evident they were playing midchart stuff. unsurprisingly our system also would have had plenty of midchart elements to it, but we'd made the effort to throw it out to make it legal for the day. they showed absolutely no interest in doing the same when we pointed this out at the start of the round. of course gcc regulations are pathetic, but if you're to play in a tournament you're accepting those regulations. i thought it showed considerable arrogance to ignore them when it's brought to your attention. call me vindictive, but i was hoping one of these conventions would come up and i'd try to get the book thrown at them which should involve a 3 imp artificial score on every board any such convention has been employed during the event.

fortunately partner told me which suit to lead, otherwise it would be a tricky problem, and i suspect i'd go for a spade.

the advantage is you get to game (it scores more) because partner knows you have a better hand.

due to his spade holding east can cout 13 tricks in NT (possibly needing the same heart split as 7h) opposite any plausible hand from west.

yes just pass and double spades for take-out or 1nt for penalties.

partner had a toke with his 4c bid (a 6 count) so results are meaningless. fwiw i bid 4d, partner bid 5c and i raised to 6. should be -3.

1s - nobody ever passes this unless their original response was a joke, and if it was, we might not be able to make anything anyway.

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making a takeout double is ok with 2 cards in an unbid minor

if the hesitating hand doesn't fit what his partner's actions require, it indicates that player was either intentionally ethical or that the hesitation didn't demonstrably suggest anything.

playing precision means you should go off in 1 spade rather than make 7h or 7c?

if anyone passed the first hand i'd call an ambulance - partner won't save you when he's got clubs. he'll naively think you passed because you didn't have 7.5 tricks in your own hand. if partner is dealt a reopening, lho will raise and if partner now doubles, you might have some difficulty convincing him you have this. passing the 2nd one is not absurd, just lame. i suspect that these questions are asked at all is a reflection of cyberyeti's very unusual (declarerophobic) overcalling style.

clear double - partner will have 5 most of the time if he bids diamonds.

magic diamond style intermediate 1m opening bids are terrible obviously

i was given the hand already. unless you can check for spades and bail to 3m, i'd just settle for playing a diamond partscore. you started turning up for these u25 things then?

Lol 1s 1n 2c 2s doesn't show 3 spades

1) this has nothing to do with whether you play acol or 5 card majors 2) opening 1C on this shape is very out of fashion. 3) opening 1C is great if opps are silent because you get to show the 5-5 at a low level (bid spades twice) 4) opps are rarely silent though and you run the risk of losing spades. so opening 1C is fine as long as you can control the auction, which means you are strong enough (in HCP or extra distribution) to bid spades at a high level if opps pre-empt.