[kfay]

whereagles, on Jan 8 2010, 06:41 AM, said:

jdonn, on Jan 7 2010, 07:08 PM, said:

Sorry, all the logic on the forums lately has been burning a hole in my eyeballs.

the logics is very simple: judgement first, conventions later. In this case I judge the tactical situation to be such that the (admitedly large) overbid of 3♠ will work better than the more normal 1♠, which offers opps no difficulties.

I don't know how anyone's judgment could turn this into a 10-14.

In general I think everyone agrees with this: In bridge, if you change the definition of your bids wildly from hand to hand or are just loosy-goosy in general, you will not have good results on average!

If you have 10-14 with 7 spades, that's already going to be an unbalanced hand. How is this unbalanced hand as good as your other other 7-spade unblanced 10-14 hands? Partner has no idea what to expect!

[dake50]

"Standard" isn't well thought out if this isn't a 2S reopen. Consider how 1S/X should partition the having spade hands. Where's the problem? What misses 4S/3NT?
Further passed hand responses severely limited on top to maxpass -however that fits into the opening structure. IE if 5xS opens light, that IS NOT IN maxpass response; if 12-13 minors unbal isn't opened, that IS IN maxpass response. I like SNAP or even Drury-like to reopening 1S overcall here.