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hook it

I think it's likely we'll have to make a decision over 3♠ on this hand.

Wow I'm like the only person who would open this 2♠ if I wasn't playing light-ish openers :) But having opened 1♠, this is a 4♦ bid.

agree with gnasher's original analysis. I also just wanted declarer to misguess ♣.

Also you can stop lower sometimes in invitational sequences, ie you can stop in 2M on a 5-2 or 5-3 fit instead of playing 2NT or 3M on some hands, which granted is a small victory but a victory nonetheless.

a stiff!? where are all the ♠?

Meh, I'd pass.

If I have a long auction and I can see the opponents bouncing their heads back and forth trying to remember everything, I just tell them I'll leave the bids out until they make a lead. I'm not certain it's best to mandate the practice, because I agree with jdonn, but common sense suggests that sometimes people should do it anyway.

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If partner cared that you have a min with ♥, he might have asked.

I remember you telling me this story in Vegas, I think. It made me happy then and it makes me happy now. This is a good way to handle it, and you get to have a little fun with them too.

Did this practice work? Couldn't they ask "What does this bid mean?" even if it wasn't alerted to the same effect?

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I'd bid 1♠ because I think it more or less will achieve the same thing as 2♥ while being more descriptive. Any number of good things can happen: Partner raises spades, partner bids NT and I can raise ♥, partner jump shifts and I can bid 4♥, partner bids again after 1♥ 1♠ 2m 2♥. The only concern is when partner has a hand that makes game good opposite this hand with 3♥ but not this hand with 2♥, and I think that's a pretty small target.

AK2. sorry, was rather late when i was typing that in. Well that makes my bids clear imo. I thought the ♣x might be an Uno card or something and we'd have a different class of problems.

agree with josh and mike given 2way nmf

This is a bit sarcastic? Did you notice we got all the spot cards except for the club? Could be a trap. Did you also notice it's a balanced minimum opposite a passed hand?

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I think 4♥ is normal and anything beyond 4♥ is bonkers. There will frequently be transportation issues in 3NT. Why would we be terribly excited about our ♠K being of full value? We still have lots of little ♠ to get rid of. It's still full value at ♥ as it is at NT. It's still a misfitting hand with insufficient values for slam and several ♠ losers.

Definitely game. Whenever an opponent bids NT naturally over our suit bid, you know, promising tricks in our suit, and especially red/white at imps, we need a little bit extra to do things like jump in the auction. A jump to 3♠ here should not be a weak balanced hand with 4♠. It should be neither weak nor balanced.

I would like to know what the x in ♣ is before I decide to pass and bid 3♥ with my balanced minimum opposite a passed hand.