Re: Quick question for any directors out there please.

darren.cotterell@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:

>>
>> I wouldn't consider the 10 to be sufficient, but there's also an
>> adjustment for a nine-card suit, so it's clearly a 4S bid.
> 
> We play 4-card majors - so he wouldn't know it was a nine-card suit

In which case I take it all back, and still consider it marginal :-)

I don't think that you can discount the extra half-loser for a queen in
partner's suit, just because he opened it.  We (at least 5cM openers - I
don't understand that 4cM stuff!) open suits generally based on length not
values, and it's not at all unusual not to have any honors.  I could have
13 HCP, a 7 loser hand, and no points in my bid suit (xxxxx-KJx-KQx-Kx)
and
still have to open 1M.