[plaur]

Scoring: IMP

p - 2♥ - X - p
4♠ - p - 4NT - p
5♣*- p - 5♠ all pass
* 0 or 3 keycards

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Online, pickup, SA, rkc 0314
What do you think of this auction?
Agree passing in 1. seat?
Agree 4♠?

[mike777]

playing with an online pickup partner vul first seat I open 2s........

Partner knows I got 6 decent spades......less than full opener but at vul not silly and shape.


after that I try and bid natural when possible and do my best.........pickup partner 6=0=6=1 hands might be tough.

[matmat]

playing with an online world class partner, i get up and leave the table
playing with an online expert pickup partner, I pass 4nt, because it is natural
playing with an online advanced pickup partner, I i show even keycards (0) with a heart void
playing with an online intermediate pickup partner, I open the hand 4S
playing with an online beginner partner I open 1s
playing with an online novice partner I pass the double

[nick_s]

Passing is ok first in hand. You know you'll get another chance.

I don't much like opening 2♠, you'll miss 4♠ too often. I'd rather open 4♠ than 2♠ because of the great spade intermediates.

Presumably with a pickup pard you're not playing lebensohl after the TO double. 4♠ seems very reasonable - there's no obvious way to investigate a slam.

Once pard blackwoods, I think you have to accept pard's decision to stop. Pard should be wondering why you failed to open 2♠ though. With a pickup pard, it's more important to build trust, so forget about missing difficult to bid slams.

I do find myself idly wondering what a 4♥ response would show though...