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Hence why playing wk nt vs bad players is a huge winner.

Overcalling 3C the first time is a good way to miss easy games. Xing the first time is a good way to get to 4H in a 5-2 fit.

I think we can just believe gnasher without him proving it lol, it's not like he's foo. Also Frances always thinks everything is fsf too so that is good evidence to support that that's how they roll in England. I will join the people suggesting that 3C natural is a better treatment.

pass and get a good number.

1C (1H) 2D 3C

May all your partners open with junk or pass with 13 counts!

ding ding ding!

huh? What else but 2D when partner has shown 4-5?

1D-(2C) frequently only has 1 unbid major. In fact I had 3-3 in the majors and did that yesterday heh.

Agree with Richard.

I think any advanced or expert player would know that 4D is the right bid here.

lol, very interesting hand.

yeah its not tempting.

happy bday

Yes. And yes. How long does it take before it's out of my system? Like I assume if I sleep 8 hours I'm fine. What about 4 hours? How do I know (because it feels different from being normal drunk)?

lol I love reading these in the morning. Related question: I have always considered myself someone who doesn't drink and drive. But driving to work this morning it occurred to me that my blood alcohol level was probably above the legal limit still. Can I get a DUI this way? Is it dangerous?

So, I enjoy drinking every night. Does this make me an aloholic?

So. I met this girl form Estonia, Triinu, I saw 2 blondes and I asked htem to come to the club with me. One asked me to describe Estonia on a map, and somehow I knew it was near Latvia. Sure enough, we meet but don't hook up because I'm too drunk to realize whats happning. She finds me on BBO and we talk daily. She plans a visit to NY, but 3 days before she comes I try to kill myslef. She visits me in the hospital and is great. We talk afterwards, and it's aweosme. I plan a trip there but 2 weeks before I go, I decide I don't want a girlfriend and don't want to deal with all that *****, so I decide not to go. I think that I cannot deal with a relationship in general, let alone a long distance one. So. Howpatheric is this?

Jdonn is the best bidder ever.

4c

Cuebid for spades. Yes there are hands where you are stuck with no heart stopper hand have to raise 3S on a doubleton, and yes it might be nice to be able to bid your 5 card minor and try to play 5 of a minor instead of a 52 spade fit. However those hands are rare and having to bid 4H with all good hands with spades is just too bulky imo. Cuebid will come up 10x as often, and you will survive in the 52 spade fit anyways most of the time as opposed to last minute minor fit.

Yep, I think playing both 3ms as NF is unplayable and focuses way too much on getting out effectively in the right minor. Even playing 3C is the only bid with minimums, you will almost always get to a 7 card minor fit (yes there are extreme exceptions), and your auctions when you have a strong hand are much better.

Hey Dean, 1) Don't listen to the people mentioning Michaels. Although half the forums seem to play this, I would say less than 1 % of American EXPERTS play a 4C bid over a 3D opener as Michaels, let alone the population in general. To everyone else it just shows clubs! 2) Doubling after a preempt usually shows tolerance for the other majors, at least 2, even if you have a very strong hand. That is because 1 suiters can just jump to the appropriate level, which is strong (don't preempt over a preempt). So AKQxxx x Axx Axx bids 4S, and AKQxx Kx Ax KQxx doubles and bids spades. This way partner can always go to their own 6 card suit, and usually a 5 card suit with no tolerance for your suit. 3) So we come to your hand. This is a gap, since you have neither a 1 suiter nor a near 3 suiter. You have a 2 suiter, but 4D Michaels would just show the majors. Being stuck, I think it's best to forget about clubs and focus on the spades with a 4S bid. This is less of a distortion than anything available. 4) Having doubled, when 3H comes back around to you I would still just shoot out 4S. Lefty's heart bid has really increased the chance you have a good fitter.

Huh? This hand bids 3D which is forcing since he didn't bid 3C. Yes you might lose some accuracy in which minor suit partscore to play by not playing both 3C and 3D as NF, but thats a pretty insignificant and infrequent thing. It is trickier with clubs, 1C 1S 2H 2N, now 3D is artificial.

As helene said. I would jumpshift with the north hand 100 % though.