[PhilKing]

Do honours not count any more?

[gszes]

jdeegan, on 2013-August-30, 14:28, said:

I do admire your ingenuity in coming up with a hand where passing 4♦ is right. Bravo! Awesome! Reluctant as I am to in any way disparage your impressive mental acuity, I must point out that your example hand leaves the opponents with eleven clubs between them, and after several rounds of bidding, that suit has not yet been mentioned.

rho may easily have long clubs and never mentions them because 3n appears easier than 5 of a minor
also nothing stops opener from having the club A vs the heart A leaving them with only 10. just a thought

[gszes]

Fluffy, on 2013-August-31, 06:34, said:

Because the 1NT bidder couldn't stand it with ♠KQx after partner stole their 3NT

So in this particular instance the vast majority correctly choose 4s and get to the
best place possible while those of us in the theoretically superior 4dx suffer:)??
life is so unfair (unless those 4s bidders knew the hammer was coming))

[rmnka447]

Without looking at the discussion, I opted for ♠. I'm thinking any ♠ honors must be in front of partner after the 1 NT bid, whereas any ♦ honors are likely behind partner because of the ♦ length guaranteed by the doubles.

[fromageGB]

rmnka447, on 2013-September-04, 21:30, said:

Without looking at the discussion, I opted for ♠. I'm thinking any ♠ honors must be in front of partner after the 1 NT bid, whereas any ♦ honors are likely behind partner because of the ♦ length guaranteed by the doubles.

One the the good things about a forum is that you can follow a discussion.
Maybe you won't read this, but it seems to me that any losers you have in spades and diamonds are likely to be losers whatever contract you play. So on that basis, as both are the 4 level, there seems nothing to gain.