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Rebound, on Apr 23 2005, 09:22 AM, said:

My call would be 2♣. You can debate about it all you want but it's the best way to force the auction. Fortunately, with my precision partners, it's a lot easier. Over 1♦, 2♦ is an artificial game force. It's too easy after that. :-)

Sadly, there are too many who have not had the benefit of your experience, Ben, so I would not dare bid 4♦ for fear partner take this to be a natural bid of some sort.

Just to make sure everyone understands... my post (and luis) about Quarck system was a joke, and not meant to be serious *i have gotten some private messages asking about quarck*

We all know what 1♦-3♦ really is, and what 1♦ - 3♥ is.

I added 1♦ - 4♦ as a "self-splinter" to furhter the joke. I thought everyone would get the 1♦=4♦ as being clearly satirical. I would bid 2♣ with this hand automatically, and never consider anything else. I mean this is VERY clear cut to me.

[TheoKole]

Thank you for all your comments.

I realized that I should have started with clubs and then hearts and spades instead of putting all the pressure on my partner. My partner did realize that I had a VERY strong hand and my only concern was the trump suit.

He had ♥ K542 along with ♦ AKQxx ♠xx ♣ Jx and passed because his hearts weren't strong enough.

On the layout with the 3-2 heart split, 6 ♥ and 6NT were laydown.

We were playing SAYC with a few personalized conventions which emphisize major suits.

Since this hand was the only bad score of the night, I naturally wanted to inprove my bidding for the next time.

Cheers