[Cyberyeti]

Opps NV, you V teams:

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You passing at this stage or coming in ?

If you pass as my partner did:

Spoiler

The auction goes (3♠)-X-(P)-P-(4♣)-4♦-(P) to you

[mike777]

5NT after passing

[mw64ahw]

mike777, on 2026-April-18, 06:48, said:

5NT

Over 3♣, 5N looks like a significant overbid

[mw64ahw]

Cyberyeti, on 2026-April-18, 04:29, said:

Opps NV, you V teams:

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You passing at this stage or coming in ?

If you pass as my partner did:

Spoiler

The auction goes (3♠)-X-(P)-P-(4♣)-4♦-(P) to you

Well someone's lying

[jillybean]

Haha, the thread title made me laugh.

I bid 3♠, it may be wrong but the pressure is on.

[Cyberyeti]

jillybean, on 2026-April-18, 07:47, said:

Haha, the thread title made me laugh.

I bid 3♠, it may be wrong but the pressure is on.

If you do, it's not clear what will happen next, largely depends on E

[jillybean]

Cyberyeti, on 2026-April-18, 07:55, said:

If you do, it's not clear what will happen next, largely depends on E

I don't understand the auction in the spoiler?

[Cyberyeti]

jillybean, on 2026-April-18, 07:59, said:

I don't understand the auction in the spoiler?

Actions in brackets are by the opps, so this is round the table so 3♣ -P -3♠ and partner doubles etc

[jillybean]

Cyberyeti, on 2026-April-18, 08:27, said:

Actions in brackets are by the opps, so this is round the table so 3♣ -P -3♠ and partner doubles etc

I understand that part, it looks like opener came back in with 4♣ and I bid 4♦?

[Cyberyeti]

jillybean, on 2026-April-18, 09:09, said:

I understand that part, it looks like opener came back in with 4♣ and I bid 4♦?

Responder came back in with 4♣ and partner bid 4♦ (you made a penalty pass of 3♠x)

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Pass to you

[jillybean]

Cyberyeti, on 2026-April-18, 09:51, said:

Responder came back in with 4♣ and partner bid 4♦ (you made a penalty pass of 3♠x)

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Pass to you

Right, you force me to pass 1st round. I wouldn't, but ok.
4♥

[Cyberyeti]

jillybean, on 2026-April-18, 12:03, said:

Right, you force me to pass 1st round. I wouldn't, but ok.
4♥

It was spoilered with "If you pass first round as my partner did".

If you bid 3♠ first time LHO could do various things but I don't know what they'd choose.

[AL78]

I wonder if 3♠ was a psyche.

[Cyberyeti]

AL78, on 2026-April-18, 14:23, said:

I wonder if 3♠ was a psyche.

My first thought was a raise to 4♣ that might want a spade lead

[Zelandakh]

No problem with the initial Pass. After partner's strong sequence, I think it's time for us to show our values with a slam try, so I'll bid 5♥ playing standard. Mike's 5NT would come out poorly if the opps are in a 9 card fit and partner is missing the ♣A+K, which does not seem at all impossible. It's also somewhat tempting to show the spades to stop LHO from being a smart-a$$ but while we might suspect we have a spade fit, we know we have a heart fit and the 5 level is not the time for such lessons.

[akwoo]

I pass initially, then end up bidding 5N.

I don't think partner has guaranteed 4 hearts.

[Zelandakh]

akwoo, on 2026-April-18, 17:10, said:

I pass initially, then end up bidding 5N.

I don't think partner has guaranteed 4 hearts.

I am confident that CY would have told us if he and his partner don't play this X and bid sequence as a strong flexible hand type. If I had to guess the shape it would be 1451 plus 2 non-hearts. If the hand doesn't have 4 hearts though, I will be quite shocked.

[mike777]

I don't believe partner only has 5D for their 4D call on this auction.

[Cyberyeti]

Zelandakh, on 2026-April-18, 17:29, said:

I am confident that CY would have told us if he and his partner don't play this X and bid sequence as a strong flexible hand type. If I had to guess the shape it would be 1451 plus 2 non-hearts. If the hand doesn't have 4 hearts though, I will be quite shocked.

You are thinking how I was thinking, x56x might be possible too but x46x most likely.

[Zelandakh]

Cyberyeti, on 2026-April-19, 00:51, said:

You are thinking how I was thinking, x56x might be possible too but x46x most likely.

You haven't mentioned whether you play Leaping Michaels so I was taking 6-5 off of the table.
I nearly wrote x46x in the previous post but I wanted to be as broad as possible - it also seems to me by far the most likely shape. Did you look for the slam here? If partner has first round club control, we might even have a grand on (♥QJxx ♦AKQJxx ♣A is more than enough) but I don't think it's reasonable to sort that out in the space, so just getting to 6 whenever partner has a club control ought to be a decent score on average.