mtvesuvius

I led a club here, seems more likely our club tricks could go away, and trump seemed wrong.

I voted 1♣, but pass is probably better, especially in a bidding contest :P

Easy pass unless we're strong clubbing

I agree 100% with everything Phil said here, and bid 1♠. It's worked really well, especially since you're ruffing in the short hand usually... Unless they lead trump, then you drop everything and RUN!

I'm just lazy sometimes when I type :) I don't have much experience playing Barbu though... Only occasionally after the evening session. Nobody in my family plays :(

If we were going to disregard partner's pass now, why not bid 4♠ before? This is an easy pass now IMO. No comments on the 3♠ bid lol

I chose 3♣, this is a nice problem though. I generally prefer to err on the aggressive side with hands like this, it's worked pretty well for me so far.

I thought this was a clear double the round before, and a clear 2♠ call now. We don't want to unilaterally suggest hearts, especially facing a partner who was under pressure.

FWIW I'm closer to opening 4♥ than passing

lol yes it's fun I suppose :P

Yeah I'm having a few second thoughts about that :P I thought my hand was AKJxxx AKxx AJx -, I think 4♠ is probably enough now, no way partner can have exactly what we need

Is it bad that I just upvoted that? I had a period of 3 or 4 days where everything matmat posted I thought was amazing (not that his other posts are not, just these were exceptional), and I found myself upvoting everything he wrote!

Partner probably has a bunch of small hearts, and is expecting one more trump from us. I think I'd bid 5♦ to start. Partner needs to have the ♠AQ and ♣A, and probably a diamond stiff... But given his bidding this isn't too unreasonable. I'm going to pass 5♠ though.

Especially Last Two

Hmm I thought I had the ♥K? lol

Ah ok, then yeah, definitely 2♠.

LOL LOL LOL LOL LOL

Start with 2♦... My goal will be to show something like 7-5ish

Edit, see below

X then 4♠ over 2♥. 4♠ directly over 3♥. Cuebidding is silly.

4♣, one last stab before just giving up

I bid 2♠. This seems like a style thing, I used to bid 2♥, but was convinced that bidding 2♠ was better.

Double, wtp

I'd pass, equal red isn't good, and I'm not thrilled about my hand to begin with.

1♥ for me