[whereagles]

mikeh, on May 29 2006, 07:07 PM, said:

1.
When I am addressing myself to you, I write to you. When I am addressing my comments to that small proportion of BBF readers still reading this thread, I use the 3rd person in referring to your posts. Despite your desire to make this a personal correspondence between yourself and those of us who post disagreements with you, the truth is (I hope) that these posts, including all of the arguments and bald assertions will be read by some who will want to weigh the merits of the arguments (and discount the bald assertions)... it was to those that I addressed my third-person comments re your posts. Here, I am responding directly to you, hence I refer to 'you', not to 'whereagles'.

2.
BTW, your reference to 'arguments out of context' is a device often used by those who cannot defend their position logically: if you find yourself unable to respond logically, you accuse the other of arguing out of context...

3.
You may fool yourself, but you fool no-one else.

1. Why you would want to address to the "general reader" is beyond me. Especially when no one asked you for clarification. You have your reasons, I guess.


2. Which is exactly what you've done when you mentioned that no one uses a sequence such as 1NT-2H-4S... I've said

"For illustrative purposes, let's consider this bidding sequence: 1NT-2H-4S"

you said (not literally):

"But that's nonsense because no one uses that sequence."

What on Earth does one thing have to do with the other!?


3. I'm not trying to fool anyone. What's your point?

[whereagles]

FrancesHinden, on May 29 2006, 07:15 PM, said:

Perhaps part of what's causing so much opprobrium is that you seem to be in a minority in thinking this hand is exceptional opposite hearts and clubs. Obviously it's a nice hand, but at least one, possibly both, of the pointed kings is wasted; one of the pointed aces might be wasted and you only have 6 points in partner's suit. I would say it's a good enough hand that I expect slam to make: partner only needed a good enough hand to bid slam if it was going to be at least 50% or so.

I admit that my bid was optimist. But at table I had this overwhelming feeling that 7 was right. What can I do? I sure ain't gonna fight my feelings. They're right more often than I am!

[jdeegan]

Bidding 7♥ is crazy. Partner has asked you a question, and you need to answer it. Plus, your hand isn't particularly good given the bidding. One or both pointed suit kings are useless and the heart J may add little. An extra good hand on this auction would be:

Axx
AQ10x
Axxx
AK

Despite the conditions of the problem, I do like the idea of bidding 6♦ as an invitation to 7♥.