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It is always funny to me when people post that there is no way good opps will ever be off the AK of diamonds here. Keep bidding scienfitically and always getting the right lead against you and I'll keep blasting when I have a good enough hand to drive to slam and even if we are off the AK of diamonds my opps won't lead it. I think stayman and then keycard is a good bid with x AQJx xx AKQxxx or whatever.

No clue what is going on but I have an ace and it's not in clubs so I guess I'll bid 6. There is no hand I would bid the same way that partner has bid it.

Over 4D bid 4S, over 4H bid 4N (assuming 4H=good hand for clubs, some people on this forum probably play 4H=choice of games), over 4S pass over 5C pass.

lol yeah agree with phil, what is this...

Double always, bidding 1N would be awful.

I would pass and don't think either is close (partner is a passed hand and we're red/white!)

Why is this? Something like this might be why: Double: Strength 3♣: Majors Pass then double: Takeout Double then double: Stronger takeout Double then pass: Balanced strength I actually played 2NT as a weak preempt in either minor for several years, and had particularly bad results with it. Seems to me 2N would work identical to a multi 2♦. Would you 'prefer' to play against multi vs other types of 2 bids? I wouldn't, but thats me. Yes I would, I have said that in that past a few times. I personally believe multi is an inferior convention. This may well not be a popular view, I realize. What? I thought everyone agreed with that since it's so clearly true. Multi is inferior when you actually have a weak 2, but hopes to make up for that by the gains it gets from freeing up the other 2M bids as something.

Whenever they bid your long suit and you don't have support for partner passing is a good option.

Guess I'll cast the first vote for 2S.

You are thinking of a completely different auction. Playing 3D as natural non forcing here wouldn't make much sense at all.

Justin, what 3D should be read as? Is it a good raise of club or just showing strength in diamond？ Just a punt probing for the right game. Obviously it will contain some club length since we don't have length anywhere else, but it keeps 5-2 spade fits and 4-3 heart fits in play as well. Partner would generally bid 3N with 5413, or 3H with 5503, or maybe rebid a strong spade suit if he had one and wanted to aim for 3N. He could bid 4C with 5404 if he wanted. With my actual hand obviously my goal is what josh said, getting to 5C opposite 5404 and 3N opp 5413. I plan on bidding 3N over a 3M bid from partner.

Why? They are unlimited in their values, all they did was bid keycard then find out they were off the DA and stop in 6. We don't even have a jack in another suit. Looks pretty bleak to me.

DA before they make 7. It also gives us a chance if we have the DK as well, or if we can ruff a diamond.

2N limit+

3d

edit NM I MISREAD

1) This could go a lot of ways. Here is the way I like: 1D 1H 2S 3D 3N 5C 5D 5H 7D Explanations: 2S- The hand is too good for bidding 3D. This leaves a jumpshift to either black suit. Spades is lower and leaves more room, and is also our stronger black suit so may pinpoint our strength better. I am not too worried about playing a 4-3 spade fit, if partner bids 3S we will simply bid 3N. The hand is wrong for an initial 3N rebid (which shows less high cards and lots of tricks generally). 3D- It would be a severe case of matchpointitis to focus on hearts here. You have 4 card support and a huge dummy for diamonds, obviously you're thinking of a diamond slam. 3N- Normal with a club stopper and a minimum. 5C- Exclusion keycard for clubs. 5D- 0-3 5H- Partner could still have 4252 or 4153 or possibly even 4144 so you must ask for the queen before bidding 7. 7D- But this hand doesn't have the queen and couldn't partner have only 3 diamonds..? No partner cannot! He has a club void, and at most 3 spades. He is not 3730 for this sequence. Ergo he has 4 diamonds. Hand 2- I hate when people give hands like this. The opponents have 10 clubs and 20 HCP. It is not realistic that they would keep passing. So I will abstain.

Sry I meant I challenge you to a robot dupe prop bet!

I am like you. I think if the person is actually disabled this is a clear cut way to be, it's not like they're being careless or negligent, they're just physically not able to hold their hand correctly. I think no matter how many warnings you give looking is a shitty thing to do. Most experts that I have talked to hold the view that against people who are not disabled or impaired somehow, or just very old, you give them a warning and if they are still showing you their hands (without you going out of your way to look at it) then if you see something it's not your fault. I personally will be like you though and go out of my way not to look even in that situation, I would just feel dirty about it no matter how many warnings I gave.

You will get a pop-up with the scores when the previous one is finished. You can also go to My BBO->Hands and results->... to look up previous tournament results (this is for the web client). Thx simple enough. Uday has thought of it all obv ;)

You erase an event from memory when you do worse than hanp? I also can't remember every playing in one, btw. ;) WORSE THAN HANP?! IMPOSSIBLE, DIDN'T HAPPEN!!!!!! On the off chance that hell froze over I want a rematch. Actually now that I'm thinking about it we should have a forum robot dupe! For money! I challenge you to a robot race prop bet btw :P

Completely inappropriate to call the director and accuse the opps of looking at your hand. If someone does this they should get a procedural penalty and a conduct hearing. You can't accuse people of stuff like this with no proof. I am a big believer in that, and as far as I know it WILL get you a conduct hearing in the ACBL. If you think that they are looking at your cards file a recorder form. If enough people do this, they will have a conduct hearing and evidence will be presented (15 people said you were looking at their cards individually, and gave hands as evidence). In the mean time, learn how to hold your cards so the opps can't see them. Be a big boy! I guarantee no one can see my cards even if they are trying to, and it would have to be a really obvious lean if they wanted to try. So they won't try. If you are an inexperienced player you will always have something picked off until you learn. I remember I was playing a regional pair game and I was 1 point away from life master. I was 12, so my hands weren't really big enough to hold my hands. Anyways they got to some contract, and they had KJxx opp A987 with no bidding and ran the jack through me and I had Qxx. I was playing with Nancy Passell and she ddn't understand either, so we went to my dad and Mike Passell and asked how they knew to do this. They both started laughing and said "Justin is learning the hard way why he has to hold his hand back." The recorder process sucks, but accusing someone of cheating openly without evidence has to be a no-no no matter how sure you are. If it becomes well known enough that someone peeks, that reputation follows them. They are less respected etc. The social pressure is definitely there.

They should just make it easy to track how you've done. I got annoyed when this happened and I wanted to play another one but then couldn't go back and see how I finished up in the first one. Is there any way to see this easily, and if not could it be built in?

You erase an event from memory when you do worse than hanp? I also can't remember every playing in one, btw. ;) WORSE THAN HANP?! IMPOSSIBLE, DIDN'T HAPPEN!!!!!! On the off chance that hell froze over I want a rematch. Actually now that I'm thinking about it we should have a forum robot dupe!

Meh, I could go either way when it comes to flight B and lower. I definitely think that flight A players who are doing well in a high profile event should be expected to help the game out by being written up/on vugraph/kibitzed. But for the lower flights I could see the arguments against that.