It is hard to belief how much I love this post. I am relearning bidding after a forty year break. In my first duplicate game, my partner bid three of my major after contending with some competition in the auction. I thought he would not bid three without 16 or so points, so I bid four with ten points. If I had realized he was just trying to keep his head above water, I could have kept quiet and maybe made three instead of going down two at four.
It is hard to belief how much I love this post. I am relearning bidding after a forty year break. In my first duplicate game, my partner bid three of my major after contending with some competition in the auction. I thought he would not bid three without 16 or so points, so I bid four with ten points. If I had realized he was just trying to keep his head above water, I could have kept quiet and maybe made three instead of going down two at four.