[daveharty]

http://tinyurl.com/bl2vbqd

Please don't pass, GIB.

[nathan2008]

I won't pass here.... I bid 4s ... 1s=5+S, and opps have at least 9 cards in H, always 4s for me lol.

[daveharty]

nathan2008, on 2013-January-18, 03:18, said:

I won't pass here.... I bid 4s ... 1s=5+S, and opps have at least 9 cards in H, always 4s for me lol.

It could be right to bid 4S as South, but I don't see why you should allow yourself to be goaded into bidding it. Take away North's ♦AQ and the auction would go the same way; now bidding 4S turns a plus score into a minus. Even if you assume ten hearts for EW, it could very easily be a 18 total trick hand where nobody is making anything at the four level. But regardless of whether you think South should bid, surely it can't be right for North to sell out to 4H when he is the one that knows there is an opening hand facing an opening hand.