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Cyberyeti, on 2021-August-29, 00:56, said:
All on the card alongside the 4 card weak 2s, we assume for bumping them up that they're 5 cards long (it's rarely 4), 4-4 is much more likely than 5-3.
Yes if the trumps aren't splitting we can get doubled, but do you really want to double 4♠ in this sort of auction on Qxx or Kxx and find your partner has 0-1 of them rather than the other holding.
Yes if the trumps aren't splitting we can get doubled, but do you really want to double 4♠ in this sort of auction on Qxx or Kxx and find your partner has 0-1 of them rather than the other holding.
I take it you don’t encounter forcing passes very much.
After 1m (2S) 3H, we’re forced to game. You bid 4S, opener passes, what do you think responder does with no 5 level safety?
Yes, wild preemptions can cause problems. Even the best pairs will sometimes go wrong. That’s why Bergen-Cohen were notorious back in the day. It happens that they were often playing on a team with a wealthy but very weak sponsor….playing solid bridge was not ever going to be enough. Plus nobody had seen anything like it.
But good players these days have a better idea of how to deal with this sort of thing.
Finally: imo, simply putting this on your CC may help you win some director rulings but is (again, my opinion) extraordinarily unethical. I rethink you need to alert or pre-announce. Who looks at convention cards when a player makes a common bid, with no alert?
I know for sure I’d think anyone who thinks CC disclosure is enough is trying to win by hoping that the opps won’t notice what’s written on the CC. Count me out.