Ah well most seem to eliminate the minors then A and hook the J when west follows.

Sorry if it wasn't very challenging but it was bid 10/16 times when played and only made three times in a reasonable standard field.

Ah I know nothing of such fora

Follow up

this was close as I thought it might be

the player who held this hand did double and partner passed it out
with

AQJ
T765
AK32
84

which wasn't a success as 3Hx was tickety boo

North/south held

T5
AK9432
void
Q7653

9876
void
Q654
AJT95

so they missed 5c but were compensated

pulling was the winning option

Pard held

AJ9x
K
AKQxx
KJx

2SX was a make 5D was as well

2H was somewhat outside of agreements even for this vulnerability
Yuan and others comments on 3H are quite valid I think

I will post a follow up to this the consensus seems to be 3D

I am aware of this….. but perhaps we have invented a new Burn's law……over to you :)

Ok, did not know…. cheers

This was my intent :)

6c is cheap!

Was interested to see the answers and yes I know this hand is better than many Axx Axx Axx xxxx hands. This was the top of the list of these I felt. The story?……. well it all turned out well despite the fact I got stick from my team captain/mates/most of the room for not opening….. I passed p-p-1S-X-XX-2C-P-P-X-PPP for +1100 they say you cant argue with success but bridge players are a breed of their own.

sorry for the delay in replying to the dicsussion 1S was in fact a run from the 1Hx pass and met with four card support. Pass was the bid chosen at the table and it did not play well in 5-1 fit with a 6-1 break. 2H was making by EW I believe.

Double was the bid at the table….. East plays a lot of rubber bridge and I imaging north has as well and was expecting East to pass….. It continued here…..

https://bridgewinners.com/article/view/bidding-problem-2-fupbgdhag9/

Ok so the real point of this question is that East asked a question of the 1C bid as it was not a “standard” method, then passed and passed on the second occasion in tempo….how may would bid 2S now?

FWIW the East hand was

Q6
A86
J7632
AKJ

cheers

i'm glad my spanner in the works was profitable…. generally they arent :-)

North-South are what you would call “agricultural in their methods” Perhaps they had seen the oppo coming :-)

umm…….. perhaps I should fall upon my sword for posting the wrong hand layout!

apologies to all those who have commented…….I completely buggered up the hands!

hands were

Kx
AJxx
Jx
A9xxx


8763 ———— AQJx
10 ————– xxxxx
K87532 ———- xx
Qx ————– KJ
Txx
KQx
AQx
Txxx

Hopefully there are 13 cards in each hand and suit

paddy

pretty filthy 2S or multi opener at all vul :-)

In this case a spade was the winner, just intereste to see the 3:1 ratio for D versus S.

dummy was

Kx
AQJ
Jxx
A9xxx

pard was

AQJx
xxxxx
xx
KJ

perhaps a spade overcall was needed!