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mike777, on Dec 21 2005, 03:01 PM, said:

Prefer 3clubs not neg x.

If partner can make a freebid of 3h, great, otherwise I am playing in D.

Expected a 3♣ q-bid to be followed by 4+♣ and even with the D fit, the H suit might be lost forever.....

[Kalvan14]

Robert,
I would really prefer if your posts were not always slanted with an ad-personam bias. What has RKC to do with this hand?

It has been quite evident for a long time that you and I play 2 very different philosophies of bridge (and if we were to be partnered together it would be a disaster). It happens, and not just in bridge.

I can just repeat my statement: it is a penalty double, and I am 100% sure that my partner would pull it with the posted hand. Probably you would not [to show confidence in partner's decisions, obviously]

[civill]

I don't think that the dbl is suitable here.

[Robert]

Hi Kalvan14

What bias? Everyone posting wrong information about Max Hardy's methods would draw a correction from me. You posted misinformation and I posted two quotes from his book to 'correct' the wrong information that you had posted.

That is a fact.

You addressed a question to me by my 'name' and I responded with the answer
that I had played responsive doubles for several decades.

That is another fact.

I did offer my opinion that your leaping to bid RKC on many hands was premature.
If your numerous posts containing a jump to 4NT does not suggest that idea...

We would never become a partnership unless I had a loaded gun pointed at my head. I would likely still think seriously about my options even then...

You confuse your opinion with fact. You may play whatever methods you decide.
I have played responsive doubles in this type auction for several decades.

You may repeat your 'opinion', but that still does not make it a fact. Some play responsive doubles and your opinion would not cause me to stop playing one of
my chosen methods.

I encourage your choice of any meaning for your bids. Why wouldn't you allow me the same choice?

Trust partner is listed on my CC. I have been lucky to have a number of talented
partners over the decades, why wouldn't I trust a talented partner to bid properly?

Straw man arguments just weaken your case.

I have nothing against you. Why you would think so is a mystery to me.

A number of your bridge ideas I do not agree with and I post my different opinion.
Gentlemen and gentlewomen may agree to disagree.

dcvetkov uses a perfectly good method of playing penalty doubles here. I do not.
We do not have any problem. Why should you have a problem with my 'opinion?'

civill posted, "I don't think that the dbl is suitlable here." I have no problem with a different opinion.

Do you consider a different opinion as a personal attack on Kalvan14? Why would you?

Best regards,
Robert

[temp3600]

Hello Robert,

I enjoy the bridge content of your posts, but I too find that the abundance of smileys and single-quoted words give them a strong pretentious and condescending tone.

Michael

[luke warm]

i understand the doublers' logic, but i'd bid 3♥ here... if 3♠ from partner, 3nt... the interesting bid is mcphee's 4♥.. that could be right even with 4/3 fit