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I‘d say you should bid 1♠, absolutely forcing, could even be 5 in a strong hand, but also a 12 count 4333. You can bid 2♣ if responer rebids 1N, which is again unlimited and forcing. Personally I don‘t like this ambiguity in WJ. In our system (with a WNT) 1♣-1♥;1♠ shows 4crd ♠ iand 15-18 balanced or 5(+)♣. The seond bid always clarifies if opener is strong or not and almost always (this is the only exception) if opener has SNT or an unbalanced hand.
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If I understand your rules correctly, E‘s J must show KJT9843 because in all other cases E would have a spot card in all catagories. It looks easy to cash ♠A and continue with ♥. Am I missing something?
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As others have written, the problem is not PC specific. This is a borderline decision. With 3415 I tend to bid 1♥ aggressively and pass 1♠. Here I cannot pass 1♠ and would have to choose between two unattractive rebids (1N and 2♦). I‘d probably bid 1♥, but our strong 1♣ starts at 19 and systemic responses are 6+, not 7+. However: one bad board can never be a reason to change your system!
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Now let mt tell you s out the happy end. I got a ♣ lead to K and A, whereupon I continued with 2 rounds of ♣, both ducked. Then I rattled of my ♥, played a ♦ to J and A. Opps managed to crash their ♠ honours and my ♦K made the 9th trick. With ♦Q onsite, 5d is par, but no one played there. The final outcome doesn‘t make the bidding any better of course.
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Richards statistics are not based on hands that only he played. They are interesting and show that the axion 12+12 is game (and 13+11 is not) is just another fairy tale. The difference between 12+12 and 16+8 is 0.05 tricks. Hard to believe but even compared to 20+4 the difference is only 0.24.
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I‘m with Kieran, 2N is high risk, low profit. Apart from going -1 in 2N, there are those cases where the majoritay plays 2N-1 and I play 3N-1, simply because opps are satisfied that we don‘t make our game.
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I had a similar situation and did bid 3N. LHO didn‘t lead a ♥ from his broken suit and I had an easy go for 9 tricks. He was fuming, bellowing „how can you bid 3N without a decent stopper“. I just replied „I‘d rather be down in 3N then in 4♦!“.
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I guess best use for 4♥ is RKCB♦. Without agreement I would take it to be natural (my original vote). Since the question is what it SHOULD be, I changed my vote.
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Personally I don‘t like this ambiguity in WJ. In our system (with a WNT) 1♣-1♥;1♠ shows 4crd ♠ iand 15-18 balanced or 5(+)♣. The seond bid always clarifies if opener is strong or not and almost always (this is the only exception) if opener has SNT or an unbalanced hand.
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