jjbrr

Agree pass is ridiculous. Either game could be right. 9 tricks are easier than 10!

Ah ya I saw the auction wrong. Whoever bid 6 bid too much

3♠

i hope you weren't south, clee.

wat? http://img707.imageshack.us/img707/3840/18778308.png

How long would it take 1000 monkeys at 1000 typewriters to duplicate this auction?

I admit I don't see anything wrong with playing "4NT is always blackwood except over NT auctions" until they get a better grasp of the rest of the auction.

I would just open 2♠ with this and not give it much thought.

Stop playing RKC until you can bid the rest of the auction better. I've hear RKC is the most abused convention in bridge, and the given example supports that.

wat? Unless what you said means "more strip; less poker" then I disagree.

ditto

A high variance style of play in strip poker is clearly +EV. Alllllllllllllllllll innnnnnnnn

Happy Birthday!

Hi Masse. I prefer to play 3♠ is definitely a splinter here. As others say, some sort of fit bids may be better in other suits, but splinters work fine too. The general answer is yes, splinters still apply after interference. The other thing I'd like to say is this: You don't want to bid RKC with a void, so you should forget about that as an option on this hand. Partner's response will be more or less meaningless, given you don't know whether his keycards are useful or not. He could easily have the ace of spades, which doesn't help you at all. In these auctions, it's better to cuebid and/or to let partner to bid Keycard, so that you can show that you have a void if you so wish.

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lol we're being leveled

What are your plans with the vodka, jdonn? Bacontinis?

I'd open 1♥ 2♠ is easy dbl I think should be unanimous

Not that it would help you get to 6♣, but why not splinter with 4414 after 1♣-1♥?

Your instincts are close. As others have said, it won't be right to pass 1♠ very often at all. Usually you will bid 1NT or give a courtesy raise of ♠ or take some preference. But given that partner has limited his hand by his failure to jump shift (even though he still has a wide range of hands) you are allowed pass. As someone else noted, the actual hand in the OP was not right to pass.

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Though I now play the above system with one partner, including opener bidding the OTHER major over the re-ask, I would not have thought of it as expert standard. Maybe I'm behind the times. I've always played that redouble showed a strong desire to play in 2♣XX (5 clubs or 4 great ones), and that pass was a suggestion to play 2♣XX (4 good clubs). Now responder's XX is to play. Other bids by opener are as if no double, and now responder can bid 3♣ to check on a stopper. Until a year ago, I would have thought that was expert Standard. Perhaps what jjbrr describes is the new Expert Standard, but I certainly wouldn't assume any of it without an agreement. Maybe this way is better - it hasn't come up yet with the one partner I play it with - but I've had good results playing in 2♣XX, and bad results when they've done so against me, so I like the system that caters to getting there more often. People tend make rather unsound doubles of 2♣. You probably know much better than I do what one would consider "expert standard." I've been under the impression that partners and I have been on the same page in this auction, so I interpreted it as "standard," but maybe I've been mistaken. Your points about people making unsound doubles and 2♣xx being a long-term winner are both very accurate imo.

sounds like partner has solid ♠!

tell opp to follow the F'n rules of the game. then pass.

ladyboy, ja.