Another Opening Bid Question

[blackshoe]

Last time I played in a place with a bar on site was, let me see, one of the old club venues here. However, the bar was closed.

 

I do fondly recall repairing to the bar after many club games in Alverstoke — but that was twenty years ago. B-)

[Cyberyeti]

Leaving aside the matter of our dotage, are you suggesting that there have been recent advancements in this crucial area of bidding theory? What am I supposed to do at the club on Thursday evening when I pick up (void) QJTxxxxxxx AK A? I don't want to embarrass myself (any more than I do already)!

The classic 5♠ opener is 10 to the QJ10 and an AKQ with a double void (you know, the hand that never happens) as experts will have exclusion blackwood in their armory for your hand, but for N/B, 5♥ is the correct opening bid with the hand you give although 1♥-anything-5♥ will achieve the same thing unless the opps have got the auction to 4♠ by the time it gets back to you.