[neilkaz]

Well maybe Han's comment about giving up bridge if you bid 6♦ is a bit harsh, but it also may be in jest as was my 100% agreement with that part of his comment.

However as Han and so many others have said, bidding 6♦ is extremely bad. Previously in this auction we've shown a long string of ♦ by our rebid. We've also shown that we don't have a superb suit since we didn't make a 3♦ positive response. PD has asked for key cards and found us with one and then signed off in 5♦.

We have a WTP pass unless we want to mastermind and guess that our beginner pard has missevaluated the auction and somehow he can take 12 tricks in ♦ (noting he's a beginner and could certainly find a way to go set even though there's 12 reasonably easy tricks.

[hanp]

I certainly wasn't serious quitting bridge. You kept asking how we would call 6♦ while pretty much everybody said it was a bad bid. Not sure what kind of language you were looking for.

[jjbrr]

Anything but pass is really quite terrible.

I would have bid 4♥ instead of 4♦, but I think it's very close.

[peachy]

hrothgar, on Jun 23 2010, 05:28 AM, said:

Am I the only one who objects strenuously to the 4♦ rebid?

Partner shouldn't be opening 2♣ on some nondescript 4=5=1=3.

4♥ looks MUCH better

No, you are not alone! 4D was the root cause of the problem (unless we see all hands at one point and can determine there was an earlier problem other side of the table)

[peachy]

hanp, on Jun 23 2010, 11:33 AM, said:

The others are commenting on the earlier auction because the current decision is blatantly obvious. As for 6♦, it is a terrible bid, it is so bad that if any of your students bid it they are hopeless and should give up on bridge immediately. Hope that helps.

I want to make it clear that with a reasonable partner, I also Pass. Other than that, I agree with you statement.

The circumstances given in the original posting [beginner partner, probably club game] have reduced my faith in partner's bidding, and my gut feeling is we missed either 3NT or 4H, which makes the score for 5D making five about as bad as 6D-1 would be.

[jdonn]

I completely agree with 4♦. We have 7 of them you know, and we haven't missed 4♥ yet.