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I dont understand what's going on in this thread. You bid a grand at the club and you think you didnt get a great board? :)

1. Bash to game 2. Take lots of tricks 3. ???? 4. Profit.

Someone already thought of that, Aberlour

It's not great to make rules like "When dummy has this, we always play SP. If dummy is that, we give count." It's much better to give the signals that convey the information that partner needs to know. In general, I'd say this is not a SP situation, because giving attitude accomplishes pretty much the same thing. Surely if you cashed the A in the middle of the hand looking at KQJ you had a reason. So you probably had something in mind and it was either to continue playing the suit hoping to give partner a ruff in that suit (in which case he encourages) or you need to play something else (in which case partner discourages) and it should be obvious to you what to play. If you're cashing aces because you don't know what else to do in the hand, I suggest worrying less about signals and more about defending in general.

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Does it look like GSF? Partner's missing ♦ honors and the AKQ of ♣ and a ♠ honor and still forcing to slam? Seems unlikely.

4♣ stayman, no transfers. Agree with others about unanimous 3NT

5NT is always pick a slam. I would bid 6♣ I agree with 2♥ but would not be suprised to be in the minority.

Uh. Just bid normally and roll your eyes at them every time they do something competely ridiculous would be my suggested defense. How are you not going to completely stomp a pair who plays something like this? Serious answer: Bid a lot. Double of artificial bids shows that suit.

Hi Matmat.

Also the Precision 1♦ opener frequently has a pretty good ♣ suit when he opens 1♦.

I think 2♣ and 1NT are the only options and I don't feel strongly about either one of them. I'd likely bid 1NT. Pass would be my third choice, but like Justin said it might be tough to get back into the auction later, so I prefer bidding. Double could work out if you catch a spade response, but with short ♥ it seems too much of a distortion.

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I feel like jdonn is right. I think a 6M opener is more gambling than a 2♣ hand followed by 6M or whatever. Obv it's hard to quantify this because of the rarity but I feel like jdonn is definitely right on average.

The right bid on this hand really isn't clear at all, IMO. I've heard some very good players who would pass, but these good players also subscribe to the philosophy that the 1♦ opener won't pass. This doesn't put this hand in a good spot at all.

I'd open 1♦ because I don't see any reason cater to the worst possible auction for this hand. Sometimes it doesn't matter what we open, but sometimes it matters that partner can expect 4♦ from us usually. I admit I don't like it when partner tries to be a genius on hands where there's no reason to expect that needing to be a genius is necessary.

Ya I'd lead a ♠x now. I think there's no way the ♣A is cashing. I guess we gained some info with the dbl, though I wouldn't have X'd :(

I would open 2NT on the first one. I would bid 3NT on the second.

respect.

Agree with everyone else. 4♠ strikes me as the last thing I would choose to bid. I'm not sure if I would choose to show my ♣ or just bid slam or something, but 4♠ is sort of lol. Anything besides 4♠ has to be better.

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Ya the lack of strength is compensated by good concentrated values and lots of tricks. Also Jilly's article was great.