Jlall

I'd X

2N, 3N now would show a better hand to me (16-17ish).

3D I guess, bidding 2 is just too weird. Obv open 1.

Don't pass and don't X!

Gl dude just have fun and don't try to force things.

hanP

1 diamond obv

On 1 I would double but it's definitely aggressive and pass is fine if you prefer that. Obviously 2C is a joke.

Do they do that anywhere? Not that I know of... I made a post on here a long time ago suggesting it and someone said that it was a sanctioned format in the ACBL or something so it's possible to run it here, but I have never actually heard of it happening.

I would now like to nominate Stephen Tu as the best poster of the decade... that old unregistered jlall was teh worst imo :rolleyes:

BAM can be knockouts also, imo this would be the best form of bridge (least luck element).

It is slightly better to play for the drop as xx AJ is more likely than Jxx A (any specific 2-2 break is always more likely than a specific 3-1 break). However, there is often enough other information about the hand to swing it the other way.

I would still play stopper ask

2D

No this is not a forcing pass, double shows some diamonds.

I spent the first part of my bridge career passing with this hand type and came to the conclusion that that was pretty lol. Since then I've bid 3N on the basis that if 3N is our spot, I'll probably have to bid it. Since then I have gotten like no good results from that. I am going to start just bidding 4D. Thx BBF!

foo was clearly poster of the decade, cayuga was a close 2nd.

Well done, partner was indeed 1534 and chose to pass 3N, and would bid 4H over 4D.

ahh those were the days

You can make game opposite normal hands from partner that he will pass 4C with. The argument of o know what if partner has 0 doesn't mean much since he is very unlikely to be that weak when we have 10 and RHO has a preempt. More likely partner also has something like 10 without much in clubs, and 4S is cold. He could have as much as 14 and not be able to balance over 4C since he has some length there though, so I really do think 4S is that obv.

On the first one partner has Jx KTxx A98x KTx, RHO was 7222 with AK of spades and 3 jacks, so passing got 300 instead of a minus... that one is definitely a scary pass though because if partner is 544 it could be that 3S makes and 4H makes.

A heart. There's not much point in a trump lead, because I'm not going to get a chance to lead another one I passed and insta led a heart...a spade was the winning lead (beats it 2) and one of my friends said he would lead a spade (without knowing results) so I was just curious heh.

lol 2N does not show the minors

This came up in another thread a week or two ago, too... stepping back from this specific auction, would you gentlemen share your rules of thumb for when you think returning to a major after minor-suit agreement is an offer to play? My own tendency is that if you've passed up only one previous chance to support a suit, delayed support is obvious (e.g. 1♥-2♦-3♦-3♥) but having passed up two previous chances to support a suit - as with spades in this threads auction - my default is to treat the 4M bid as a cuebid in support of the agreed minor. I am aware of the fact that I use cuebidding more (and RKCing a lot less) than is popular these days... but the whole subject of continuing to explore for a 2nd fit after having already found one strikes me as a low priority area of a system. IMO being able to get to 4M instead of 5D should be a very high priority in your system, higher than having those bids assigned for slam bidding. I mean for starters you could easily have a 6-2 fit in either major here (responder could be 6-4/6-5 with opener having 2 hearts, or responder could be like 2551 with opener being 6-4 in the pointed suits), and it is important to find that out rather than play a game that needs 11 tricks. Being able to play your 8 card major fit has to be a top priority imo. Add to that that in an auction like this you could easily belong in a 5-2 fit (as here), and it becomes super important to be able to have 4M as natural. It's not like being unable to cuebid either major is going to stop you from ever bidding slam effectively. The truth is that 4M natural will ALWAYS help you when you need to play in that contract (it's the only way to get there at that point), but 4M cuebid will only necessary to bid slam effectively a fraction of the time, so even though 4M cuebid would be more frequent, it does not mean that it is better to play it that way.

Or he may have like AJxxxxx x x AQTx which is not exactly the nuts and 5S and 5H are both cold, all of this being consistent with RHO having a big 2 suiter.