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4♥ THere is a good chance that opps have a ♠ fit, now they won't find it. My ♣ are well placed behind the bidding opp or at well to partners. Worst case is if: - partner holds great ♦ - opps have no ♠ fit - my LHO holds the ♣. We might loose 3♠ and 2♣ than. But it's better to bid now, or else pass forever.

After the ♣Ace is played you control all suits. You don't need more than 3 ruffs (2♦ and one♠) at the table. You can drop 1♣ from the table on a high ♦, so you need 2♣ ruffs in your hand. So there is no reason not to draw 2 rounds of ♥, immediatelly. But this is turning a 92% plan to a 96% plan.

Take a look at: http://forums.bridgebase.com/index.php?act=ST&f=25&t=2233 for more information

As I see it you don't unregister missing pairs, you are unregistering pairs that have a missing player. So if for some reason my partner is disconnected, I'm excluded from the tourney too. If (s)he looses the connection milliseconds after tourney start, I'll get a sub to play with. As TD if I plan to to host a tourney with xx tables, I might end up with missing a few.

I play a similar treatment with 4-5 loosers, so i know the problem you ran into here. 2[cl][space][space][space][space][space]- 2[sp][space][space]- dbl[space][space](1) - pass 3[he][space][space][space][space][space]- 4[di][space][space]- 4[he][space][space][space](2) - 4[sp] pass(3)- pass- dbl[space][space](4) - pass 5[di][space][space](5)- 5[sp][space][space]- dbl[space][space](6) - pass (1) Does this show HCP or ♥, i guess 7-8 HCP 1 Control (2) Guess this only shows 2-3 card support (3) If you don't show your ♣ now, your partner can hardly judge right. (4) Is this take out or penalty? (5) Guess this is a cue bid (6) Due to the lack of information not the best bid. You gave away the one level, to make your partner bid, opps took the 2 level, and you ran out of bidding space. This problem can only be solved with agreements how to describe the hands best. And you must define the target, meaning: Will your side be declarer or not? You showed a onesuited hand with 4 looser, but you hold a 2 suited hand. Your gave the impression of defence tricks, when you passed 4♠. You can't expect to make your ♥'s since LHO showed a ♠&♣ hand. You are much better playing yourself. With partners h♥ support, you most likely lost another looser. Only if your partner knows that you have a second suit, he can make a right decision. If you bid ♣ as a second suit, your partner can realize that he's got 3 tricks for you. And make the right decision.

I get this Error page it I "Don't" "Get" the intervals, otherwise it seems to work! Good! I like this Interface!

Arsen, if you come to the table, if a player informed you over a psyche, one might as well alert it :).

Good suggestion! This sort of Message would do fine.

Cool bidding you got there. But without some data on your bidding system and style it's hard to say whats going on. Trust your Partner or get another new one :blink: . I can imagine 3 different meanings of 4♦: 1) Your partner is short in ♦ and STRONG, at least stronger than takeout. 2) Your partner is 5-5 in the majors, you should pick one. 3) Your partner is trying to uncover a psyche by west. 4) Someone missclicked, and everything we suggest is *censored*. If he meant 1) he can dbl 5♦ to get something like 800 to 1100, since you have nothing. I don't think 6♦ is a good follow up bid. If he meant 2), he can hardly expect you to understand 6♦ he should bid one of his 5 card suit at 5 level. If he meant 3) he can dbl 5♦ for a massacre and if west runs, you know it was a psyche. That leaves 1) and 4) as options. So i think your partner holds 544 (or maybe 553) and a ♦ void with lots of hcps. So i can't resit to bid 7♦ and let partner choose his favorite major.

In a post a while ago, Fred suggested that a "booklet" with all deals from a tourney, with some commends on bidding or playing, would be a nice "extra value" one could get in a pay tourney. So if i prepare a set of deals, upload it to the tourney, how can i get thoses "booklets" to the participants? You could extract the BBO-Names from the result list, but that won't give you an email address or something. You could post a link to the tourney, but if you do that while everybody is still playing, they can look at them while still playing (guess that helps to make the right decisions at the end of the tourney). Those players that finished first, might not get the message to tourney at all. Any kib, can read tourney chat, so they would get the "booklet" for free. That "booklet" might be a pdf file, or maybe even a lin file. Would it be possible to upload such a file, when creating the tourney, that is delived to the participants, when they leave the table after the last round.

If you want to involve your partner bit 2NT in the first place. But I don't blame you for bidding 4♥, it is a good bid, keeps p silent, and takes away much bidding space for your opps. Don't force your opps to play 6♠ when they might make it. Now that you kept silent about ♣ and ♦, keept it that way, otherwise opps might find out they have a double fit too. They will bid and make 6♠ then. So at this stage pass is the right bid.

Well there is more than one right bid in any auction. 1) There is a bid that is required by your system. 2) There is a bid that describes your hand best. 3) There is a bid that is perfect for this deal. 4) There is a bid that can produce the best result. (e.g. psyche) 5) There is a bid that disturbs opponents bidding most. This is not always the same bid. A bid can even be proved as bad, if it's agreed in your system it is the 'right' bid. So any authority, that is not playing your system, might pick another bid. So the only authority for your own bidding, is you and your partner. (But of cause other pairs, using their own authority might be much better. :rolleyes: )

No, not a game try, a game force. 3♠ would be invitational. Tim, if you bid game, it can't be invitational! You try to make it.

Since Forum D is the same as frensh standard, this should be the same there.

I still don't like the 4♠ bid, jumping to game is "fast arrival". Fast arrival should be used to discourage partner to go on. I would never expect this control monster. Yes i know it should be save to bid 5, but don't lie to yourselfs! You don't bid 5 every time you think its save! You bid "save 5" after you notice that 6 are unsave. Tell me you never played with or against someone you opened 5♣-5♠ with 1♣.[hv=s=sakxxxhadxxcaxxxx]133|100|[/hv] what about: [hv=s=sakxxxhadxxcaxxxx]133|100|[/hv] or even [hv=s=sakxxxhadxxcaxxxx]133|100|[/hv] I've seen worse hands jump to game at BBO, Vuln. @ IMPs 40% chances should be taken to game. These are all impossible, or infrequent? But this "monster" is frequent? The question was, who should go for slam. South bid shows values including distribution good enough for a game try. There are lots of distributional hands, that qualify for that, the frequency of that "monster" is rather rare. Bidding 4♠ may be a "system conform" bid, but it does not describe it's true power. Fast arrival may not be part of the system. Does the north hand look promissing, no it does not. Partner opened ♣ , meaning that his ♦ are 3 cards at most, his QT is a big hole to fill on the way to a slam. North has a good share of responsibility for missing the slam, but south could bid more helpful, and if not the system needs some improvement.

I would bid 4♣, but only because my partner and i agreed that a jump to 4m is RKCB in that suit. So it shows a good length, control in the side suits and i'm told if my partner has anything that may justify a slam try.

Doesn't 3♦ show 6♥ and 4♦ or maybe 5-5? What is your agreement of FSF? Since the Jump to 3♦ is a game force, any additionals forcing is at least slam invite. Does FSF from partner include hands with fit in your suit, or is excluding a fit in your suits? If it's including, partner wants to know if the aim in 6/7 NT or 6/7♥. If it's excluding, he promisses solid ♠ and ♣ control with at leat 5♣ and 4♠ and wants to know if your ♥ and ♦ are good enough for NT. Without agreement, I would not expect 3♠ to be FSF now. But you said it is, so be it. In any case, 3NT and 4♥ are likely to end the auction, bidding game is usually a way to turn down a slam invitation. So I would bid 4♣. Partner can hardly expect more than 2 cards in that suit, and it makes clear that i'm interested in discussing that slam invitation more precise.

S - A J 9 H - K 6 D - A 7 4 3 C - K J 6 3 Well this is not the type of hand i expected, after partners 3♠. Because this is not a hand i would consider "stronger" than 4♠, 4432 the a distribution that is normal for a NT opening and the points may be maximum, but this is still nothing extra. [hv=s=saj9hk9dj43cak863]133|100|[/hv] This is more the kind of hand I think is required, to bid "stronger" than game. And this is what i would call a good hand opposite a ♦ cuebid.

First of all it looks great, and it works! I'm related to software development and when it comes to user interfaces i can be pain in the neck: 1) I can enter a start date with year 2004 and earlier, but if i do it says, it may not be prior to 2005-01-19 9.04.45. So why can i select it? 2)So I enter 2005-01-19 09:05 and get an error, because the intervall should not be longer than a week. Would be nice to read that prior to trying. 3) When i press the reset button, the error messages disapear, but the selected dates are not reset. But maybe this is form preset from my browser. But it is not what i expect when i press reset. It would be nice if the end date wouldbe set to now, at reset. 4) I enter midnight today as an end date, because i don't know what timezone myhands is running. But instead of boards i get an error i should not enter a time later than now. Still don't know what timezone myhands expects.

I don't like the 4♠ bid, it wastes a lot of bidding space. And you hold all 5 "Aces" one would ask for by RKCB. Partner can never guess that you have "total control". North has 13 HCP, but has to downgrade the ♦Q. Opposite of 19 the hands are worth somewhere between 30 and 32 HCP not realy the slam range, south has to have maximum for slam and to north there are still lots of aces missing. If your system has no better bid than 4♠ (e.g. 2♦ will be hardly passed ), than north is in trouble, to him it must seem there is a big keycard problem. Since he has no reason to think south has a short suit, he should ask for aces with 4NT. This will give him all the information he needs, and they can always stop. Why should he start cuebidding if he needs south to have 4 keycards to try slam?

Your hand has opening strength, and your partner seems to have a strong NT. Your partner obviously bid 3♠ to get more information about your hand. You are short in the minors and he has to reevaluate (downgrade) his holding there. You should give him the information he needs to decide, whether he should stop in 4♠ or not. If 4♦ is a mixed cuebid, and not missunderstood as void, you should bid it, to let Partner know how to evaluate his ♦ values. Otherwise bid 4♥ showing control there.

board 1: West reopening with dbl, is ok with this hand, but it's minimum since the ♣Q is worthless. and the heart values should be downgraded. It is definitly not game forcing. East however who felt to weak to bid over 2♣ , suddenly thinks they have a full game. Thats impossible! East can stick to the idea of being weak, since a void in partners suit is almost always a reason to downgrade the hand, almost never a reason for an upgrade. So a bid of 2♠ would be ok. I would accept 3♠ as a litte optimistic, but 4 is out of range. board 2: Bet you don't discussed that with your partner! Dbl on an artificial bid should show that suit. So east should switch back to ♥. But if you did not agree on that, there are other possible thoughts, dbl could be take out and you might have a 5card ♦. I've even seen people playing dbl, as showing a penalty dbl on ♠, in that sequence. I won't east for passing with the 3rd K. But why bid 3♦? You have to downgrade ♠J. ♣Kx in front of a NT opening is also worth a downgrade. So you have 3 quick tricks, and if you are luck you can ruff 2 times. You can hardly expect your partner to have more than 5 hcp, so he's worth a trick on average. So you can expect to be two down most of the time. This is not good enough against a partscore.

Well if the button was pressed, the information could be displayed to the TD as soon as he joind the table automaticly. A message like: Player_1 psyched XXX times when playing with Player_2. It sure won't cover the use of several nick's, but at least you know, if partner is aware psyching.

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Play A♦ and than small for a ruff. After you return to you hand with trump. Then play the Q for a ruffing finesse, and drop ♠ if the queen in not covered with the king. This should work, if anyone holds K or Kx, and if LHO hold Kxxx. If the J drops you can repeat the ruffing finesse with the 10. This should be better than the simple finesse.