[Stephen Tu]

Scoring: MP

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Bidding:
Partner, north, opens
4H - (p) - p - (4S);
p - (4nt) - ?


Questions:
1. Agree with passing partner's 4H opening?
2. What should 4nt mean?
3. Your call?

[mikeh]

1. Yes. There is a lot to be said for an immediate bid of some kind, either a straightforward 5♥ or a psychic 4N, but you have just enough stuff that the vulnerable opps might not be able to balance.

2. 4N should be keycard: there is no reason why it should be anything else... why would east try to improve the contract? Even if you had long ♠s, I'd still treat it as keycard, and your ♠ length strongly suggests that E has a fit, in which case surely he intended it as keycard?

3. I'd bid 5♦ to get the best lead for our side..... I don't mind going down undoubled in 5♦ and I will run to 5♥ if doubled. I have no intention of saving: I am positioning the defence. The opps probably have a source of tricks in ♣, with the Ace hopefully on my right, and I hope to score 2 minor tricks and one major. In that case, I probably need a ♦ lead.. I definitely can't have a ♣ lead.

[whereagles]

Agree with mikeh. I kinda think they're not going to make 5♠.

[P_Marlowe]

1) Yes, you are strong enough to believe that
4H may have bought the auction
2) Blackwood
3) Pass, there is a fair chance that whatever 5 level
contract they play it is going down

With kind regards
Marlowe

[SoTired]

agree with mikeh, except I would probably pass 4H because if opener has ♥AK 8th, then we make 4H and opps probably can't bid.

[Free]

Make a Jansma double to see if they play some kind of ropi/ripo or penalty redouble