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and among stronger players, many play it as natural and strong. opening the suit, even if it doesn't promise more than 3 or whatever, makes the suit more likely to split badly, so overcalling 3m on a normal pre-empt is a mugs' game.

anything you like.....except this personally i'd go for 1

i suspect it was posted where it was originally, because the OP didn't want a response from directors based on laws, but rather one from players based on fairness. i'd move it back.

why isn't partner's 4 diamond bid preference? 3nt doesn't deny 3 card diamond support. in fact i dare say p could have 4 card diamond support with a sufficiently softly stocked hand in hearts and clubs.

it's not close.

edit: nevermind. i realised what you meant eventually.

3nt does show extras, be it in acol, 2/1 or snap. there's no such thing as fast arrival in no-trumps.

i thought that might be the source of the problem. imo 2s just asks for west to describe his hand. of course showing a stop is one of the most important ways to do so, but if your hand is particularly suit orientated you should do that first - it's easier to get from diamonds back to NT than to convince partner your hand is so suitable for diamonds after bidding NT first.

4h. aiming for anything grander is too optimistic considering they can tap you at t1.

east. lazy 5d bid.

east. extra trump, good honour structure. no points wasted in trumps [aka trump richness]

you're leaving in a dream world. it doesn't happen. and even if it did, it wouldn't matter much. 3sXX + 3 is 1060 against 920 in 6d. most people can't even redouble for penalties here anyway, because it's such a pointless thing to aim for. XX by opener should show a control, not KJ9x, so responder can't float it on his axx.

oh dear. 3H/3C/4H would be terrible. 3NT is better, i.e. only poor and lazy. if you do a Walter the Walrus and open this at the 1-level, you unsurprisingly leave yourself without a good rebid. Still you have to make the best of a bad job, which is obviously 2 diamonds. 1C-1H-3NT is a sequence for people whose idea of a partnership is a DVD, a dark room and a box of tissues.

you think the opps with a 10+ card diamond fit are going to stop off to play 3s on a 4-3 fit?

partner forgot to double 3♠ evidently

i have 8 solid tricks with potential for more and a fairly balanced hand. that's called a 2♣ opener.

i hope you don't mind if i note this down to share with my friends.

both. south made a pretty bad bid, but there aren't many sensible 5d bids that don't have a major ace so north could have given it a go anyway.

i'd save. people are spiting themselves. we took a reasonable gamble on the previous round, hoping they'd get to 4♥. the gamble lost, but that doesn't mean we should bend over and write -600. that they didn't bid 4♥ improves our hand for offense - partner is now likely to have at least 2 hearts (which also means a doubleton or shorter in the minors). with no aces, nothing in the minors and lho likely to have length there i make the opps big favourites to make 3nt

to the op, in future you should probably spell your system out more. 'benji' means nothing to most people on here. it's basically not played outside Britain (NZ or australia maybe?), though the 2 openers are popular in France.

not bidding 4h here is a firing offence. aside from willfully neglecting to describe your hand, 4s is an attempt to play a 4-3 fit with the long hand with the top trumps getting tapped. try getting to the right slam after 4s when partner's got a 2245 26 count now too.

easy double. you have short hearts. why the rush to get to NT? if partner has enough for us to make 3NT, he'll do something.

Your partner had a toke.

it's over. they're allowed to get lucky.

lol could be my diamond holding be any worse for 1dx? a 5 point nige1 differential between xx and pass says it all.