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♥Kx and not a spade void, which is less than half of the possible hands with ♥Kx and voids, given your spade length.

I think a first round control outside of ♦ and ♠ and then maybe another trick in addition to that (AQJ 9th of diamonds and a void is still only 11 top tricks, as is AQJ 8th and an A, though I don't think partner can hold that hand) is too small a target to make 6♦ right enough of the time.

Not with you on this one. You don't double because you have a sure set, and you do not need to believe that 6nt is inferior to 6♦ to double. You double to direct a lead. If 6nt and 6♦ are equal contracts, then you have made the valuable lead-director "free of charge". Even when you suspect that 6nt might be better than 6♦, it isn't always they run. I suspect in practice it's somewhere in between what you and I said. When lefty has bid NT twice (thrice?) already naturally, I think you should expect someone to run to NT more often than not, so you have to be more careful about lightner doubles. I definitely like a style where I can double if I have a void so I can get a ruff, and we'll worry about the second trick later. But you still have to keep the rest of the auction in mind when you do it. An auction like this one, if I were the partner of the doubler and they ran to 6NT, I would certainly expect us to beat this some substantial amount of the time.

Well... Do you agree he often has 0-1♠? OP told us he can't have 4♥. He doesn't have longer ♣ than ♦ because he didn't bid 3♣. What does that leave? Or were you asking about the 2♦ bid which OP explains?

5♦ for sure

Thank you. This one isn't taken either: http://images.google.dk/imgres?imgurl=http...%26tbs%3Disch:1 http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/5158/donotwantj.jpg

In before Garfield

I guess I'm chicken here too. I wouldn't have doubled 6♦. But to answer your question, your agreement seems fine. On the other hand, don't double 6♦ if you can't beat 6NT obv, so is partner expected to double 6N?

I'm a chicken.

Do you have an agreement about the strength of 3♦? Seems like it should be NF, but partner's sort of stuck because he can't double or bid 3♣ and he won't know what to do later if he passes now, since he has a shortness in their suit and a known 10 card fit. Maybe 2NT should be conventional in this auction. Anyway, 655321's approach is very practical. Edit: it'd be nice to be able to double 2♠ to show the other 3 suits so that both partner and I aren't both bidding my short ♠ later in the auction.

also, lol'd at pooltuna's catfish. genius.

Define "best." In avatar form?

I agree. Thank you for your support. Quality gimmick and quality first post.

I'm in ldo

I suspect that most people who like garlic think they use more garlic than most people. Of course, if only 10% of people use garlic at all then they all use more garlic than 90% of (all) people. My wife* says that "too much garlic" is as redundant a phrase as "left over chocolate". [* Getting married avoids having to be careful in choice of words for non-bridge (life) partner. ] touche. I plan to use lots of garlic in my pizza.

You have one honor in the black suits. You have two honors in partner's suits. Your hand rates to fit really well with partner's cards, so there is no hurry to grab NT. He hasn't denied 6♥ nor 5♦, so it's good to express interest in his suits. It's not a matter of agreements, but rather a matter of judgment that a red suit will play really well usually and 3NT could easily have problems. It wouldn't be hard to construct hands where we're cold for slam in a red suit and going down in 3NT. (An extreme example would be partner being 0553 and them taking the first 5 spades. Obv thats unlikely, but you see what I mean.)

I suspect I use more garlic than like 90% of people to be honest.

I have more cats fwiw

Go to store and buy bacon, pistachios, & avacados? :ph34r: Which is better, cheese underneath or cheese on top? (And what about the sauce, won't somebody think about the sauce???) cheese on top imo. I'm just using a little bit of store bought alfredo+olive oil for my sauce.

This is the correct way to show this hand.

fixed

Brag: I'm making pizza for dinner tonight. Beat: I don't have bacon, pistachios, or avacados. Variance: I have a bunch of baby portabellas. +Olive oil+basil+pepperoni+green papper+onion+4 kinds of cheese. Thoughts?

pass. agree with 2♦

lol

i'm pretty sure at the table id be a wuss and pass. apparently i should reconsider!