Very nice job! I'm glad someone besides me likes matchpoints.

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so how did 2300 happen?

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Well, we were favorable... not quite favorable enough, of course... it went pass, one strong club to me. I held x xxxxx xxxx Jxx and overcalled a natural spade. Partner made a 100% reasonable raise to 4S. I made the bad call of 5H. Whee!

So which was worse? 1S or 5H?

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My favorite psych on this hand is 2c. There are a lot of reasons why this is a better psych than 1s IMO. The most obvious one is that this is virtually risk free: if it gets raised to a high level it will probably be OK since youre at fav. Another major horse is that opener may bid over it anyway if he has 5+ spades (people hate not having a chance to show their 5 card majors). A third, funny horse is the Michaels confusion -- imagine if responder passes for penalty assuming it's natural, partner passes bc she is short in clubs, and opener also passes bc he has a min with clubs, his partner passes, and he assumes youve had a Michaels misunderstanding! This is one of the few ways to play an undoubled contract in this situation.

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