Some Choices

[pooltuna]

It would take a lot of evidence to convince me that is it losing bridge to just make a normal disciplined pass with this hand.  Bids like 1♠ and 1 NT seem like crap shoots, failing as often as they succeed, and are very destructive of partnership trust when they fail.  I'll regret 3♣ when P bids 3NT, and I have to pull to 4♣.  I mean, I like to bid, but there have to be some limits-- don't there?  B)

why would partner do something idiotic like bid 3NT? And the reason you turn the hand into a crap shoot is because it introduces noise into the opps communications.

[kfay]

When I held this hand I thought I had 2 realistic options:

 

1♠ and 3♣

 

I chose the latter.

 

IMO the disciplined passers sympathize with WW too much.

 

For the record, here's the whole hand... partner doesn't even have 18-19 :)

[MFA]

Prefer 3♣. Even if we have a 5-4 spade fit, we do have a double to our right and our spades are weak. 3♣ pays off if partner is able to bid 5♣ profitably.

Second choice is obv 1♠ - don't understand pass.