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There is no way Justin would ever bid 3C, it's non forcing! After 2C the power of our aces has gone up a lot...if partner has a hand with 6 clubs that's pretty weak like Jx Kx xxx KQxxxx or Ax xxx xx KQxxxx game is cold. If partner has a random 10-11 with 5 clubs, I definitely want to be in game with points, aces, 2 possible sources of tricks, etc just on power. So basically any time my partner passes 3C, I will feel terrible about it since I think we have probably missed a game.

Sure you can pass. You have zero tricks and partner hasn't promised much in the way of tricks either. Common sense is fine in situations like this. 4H is fine also, you took a shot at game which could easily make opposite many normal "weak NT" type hands. There is almost so much forcing pass confusion it would be better for people not to learn them.

Very quickly if they aren't that good, much much longer if they are good. For instance I think in a few hands I could say someone if someone was a beginner rather than int. It would take me longer to determine if they are an int or an advanced, but I could place them around that level. It would take much longer to decide if someone is advanced or expert. And telling the difference between an expert or a world class would take many many hands and many different sessions. A world class player could easily play like a mere expert on a given day depending on their motivation and how tired they were etc.

3N. Obv we have slam sometimes opposite hands like Kxx Ax Kxx Kxxxx but I don't want to give them information, and partner will drive past 3N on hands that look good but aren't like KJx Axx xx KQJxx if we try for slam.

I guess you are more sympathetic than you used to be wrt people who spell names incorrectly despite it being right in front of their faces :) Anyways I would bid 2S with this hand, I don't want him to pass 2C when we make 4S.

I would open it, and I'd bid game now.

KQJxxxx and out is a 3S bid red/white over 1N? Is weak jump overcall even standard over 1N red/white? Genuinely asking, I thought it was usually played as intermediate.

Don't like it...7 card suits are cool! 4-4 fits sux0r

Yeah good line by awm

I wouldn't take it as business

3!D

This is not that uncommon and I don't think it's rude. I often read the daily bulletin at nationals while playing.

1N because it shows my hand

3D is not natural lol. Don't like the 2S bid at all, just bid 3D ez game (I would not be playing 3N ever after 1S-2H with the north hand). Passing the double does not say let's play there, even if it suggested it you cannot play there unredoubled.

pfft, I thought this was a slam try opposite a fluffy 3 level overcall!

lol... I remember fighting with you so much and thinking you were such a moron and then somehow I became part of the kenrexford fan club Oo

Lmao I didn't even remember the thread when Phil referenced it...thought he was just joking. Epic. Too bad we don't have any more threads like this anymore :lol:

lol no play slam

I'd overcall both.

I have thought a lot about this type of hand before and came to the decision I prefer a diamond to a trump. Leading a trump will give up a tempo sometimes so that they can knock out one of our aces and set up some discards when we could have gotten diamonds going, so a diamond is better from an active point of view. I think a diamond is also better from passivity when we have a doubleton trump because we could easily be picking off something like QTx or KTx of trumps with partner, or KJx/AJx helping them finesse when they have limited entries etc. The same thing could happen in diamonds also, but it's less likely. A trump is good when we stop dummy from ruffing stuff though. If we had 3 trumps I would prefer to lead a trump because it's much safer, and because we might get in with our two aces and get to play 3 rounds of trumps at them sometimes instead of just 2.

Majors, I even think (2H)-3H should be played as michaels when playing leaping michaels.

I'm sure south would normally bid 4S but hated his xxx in diamonds. Meh, it is conservative but probably reasonable (when I think of hands that will pass 3S few make game on a diamond lead etc), but after they bid 4H south has to bid 4S I think, not that bidding like this is very conventional lol.

Strange, normal in USA is to play 5N is even and 5x is odd, though I'm not sure why one would be better than the other.

Yeah partner will bid 4S too much imo, gotta pass

pass