pooltuna

with a ♥ stack he could have Xed 3♥ lead a ♠

4♥ looks about right

oops I didn't consider 4♠ as a preempt; probably my choice of call at these colors.

3♦ seems to describe this hand IMO

RONF and a feature 2NT. K.I.S.S. systems probably best due to great variabiltiy of weak 2 calls.

If they are close to 4♠ then you don't want to force them to try it by calling 4♥ what you want to do is muddy up the waters enough so they are unsure that 4♠ is the right contract. So just bid 2♥ you have to hope this is sufficient noise for their 2 and 3 ♠ calls to have wide enough variance that they chicken out. At the same time you can't strap partner with a call where he can go wrong; the K♣ and 2 xtra ♥ make up for the insufficient HCP strength.

win and lead the Q♦ is my near gut reaction (i.e. I actually thot for 30 sec) :)

Bow to the odds and pass

yeah this is an = vulnerability 3♠ call. If you cannot resist preempting, 2♠ would be more likely to get you to game IMO.

4♠ looks like it has a favorable chance to make but like most of the others as South I make a -X and pass with the North hand.

Color me bawk bawk bawk. The colors are wrong to take any action IMO.

When my partner overcalls a suit I generally expect him to hold honor cards not ♥T987632

Amen! I can't believe how many think they need to pass.

well according to Google it is a short 2680 miles and takes a drive of 1 day and 19 hours :) Can you play Monday then? sorry but that is a workday :)

I didn't read slow enough and missed this initially and probably would do this since it is an option

not comfortable but you probably need to meckwell the hand - 4♥

well according to Google it is a short 2680 miles and takes a drive of 1 day and 19 hours :)

can't be much since it eliminates all the 5-1 ♣ breaks that would have lost the slam to the line that wins the A♠ and takes an immediate losing ♣ finesse with a ♣ return that gets ruffed with 3-2♥

Partner has [hv=s=sxhaxxdakqxxxxcqx]133|100|[/hv] :) so naturally I bid 6♦ :)

agree this is really a non-problem. So why is Clee posting it :) must be a sanity check and so we should calm his fears and assure him that he is insane :)

wait for partner if he has a great hand he will X, pass at this point

no doubt partner holds AQ♠ and dummy AKxx♥ making a ♠ lead the winner :)

It seems pretty automatic to me too. My choices would be X♥ (not the x :) ) > x♦> x♠>A♣

wait a minute you know dirt that is younger ;) HBD Roland

looks reasonable