3♥ is a super-accept, showing (assuming you have this agreement) 4 hearts and a near-maximum. With a control-heavy 16 count, this hand surely qualifies. As others have said, you should now show your cheapest control 4♣ over 3♠, unless you have some agreement that makes 3NT preferable ...
Peter,
Thanks for writing this letter. I think it raises important issues and points to some serious problems:
1. There should be NO CIRCUMSTANCE where a member of the BoD, particularly someone as notable as Mr. Whipple, should take it upon themselves to criticise or discourage ACBL members from writing ...
"If a 25 member board feels the need to micromanage, then it’s obvious the board needs to downsize. 13 people will definitely devote less time to discussing wether the master points left mit in my club caps at 40 tables or 29"
I do not see how any of ...
I think once 4♥ is doubled west can legitimately run to 5♣. So the adjustment should be whichever is worse between 4♥ undoubled -9 (-450) or the table result which looks to be -5 or -1100. But director can (and should, IMO) also tack on a PP.
If we assume 3♥ was natural, it would also be forcing without an (alertable!) agreement to the contrary. Thus 4♣ would still be west's normal bid. But 5♣ is clearly taking of advantage of partner's alerts to know there is a misunderstanding. West should have ...
The Common Game matchpoints the entire field together, typically 1000 - 1500 pairs, and provides results on each and very board, together with the hand record. I don't think you could have a better data set than this for developing a rating system. The only problem with it is you ...