[1eyedjack]

PhilG007, on 2017-February-13, 13:23, said:

How does 3NT make on a club lead? This I gotta see(!)��

Sheesh! You are being deliberately obtuse.

Let me ask you this: How does 4S make on a club lead? This I gotta see(!)

My comment to which you responded, highlighted so that even you can see it was:

"Yes, 4S can make ON A POINTY SUIT LEAD. But *THEN* (ie on a pointy suit lead) 3N makes the same."

At what point in this sentence to you suggest that I am implying a Club lead? I repeat, in what universe that you inhabit is a Club a pointy suit?

Just in case the terminology is new to you, a Pointy suit is Spades or Diamonds, because the top of the suit symbol ends in a sharp point, as opposed to a "rounded" suit (Hearts or Clubs).

Nowhere in this thread did I ever suggest that 3N makes on a Club lead. You however did suggest that 4S makes.

To really spell it out. 3N and 4S both fail on a Club or Heart lead. Both succeed on a Spade or Diamond lead. You argued that 4S is superior "because it makes". Even you should be able to see the fallacy.

You apparently get the right to choose the opening lead that happens to defeat both 3N and 4S as an argument against 3N, and at the same time the right to choose the opening lead that happens to allow both 3N and 4S to make as an argument in favour of 4S.

You could argue that 4S is superior because it is ONLY going to go two down when it fails, where 3N is likely to go more down. You could argue that. But you didn't.

Had it been someone else making your points I would have assumed it was a wind-up. But given your form I am inclined to believe that you are serious.

[ncohen]

3S by N over 1N is enough at unfavorable. You have 2 tricks less than the bid. The vul 2S bid shows at least a 16-count. Raising to 3N compounds the error -- P isn't promising stops in 3 suits after your strong 2S bid. He can expect you to have some side strength.

[sfi]

1eyedjack, on 2017-February-13, 14:06, said:

Had it been someone else making your points I would have assumed it was a wind-up. But given your form I am inclined to believe that you are serious.

Not quite sure why you would make that assumption. There has been precious little evidence supporting it thus far.

[sdvdg]

South made a slightly aggressive bid to try for game. IF North is just competing with a good weak two-bid type hand, bidding may get the partnership too high.

Had West led a diamond, South would run ten tricks. If South held the king of clubs instead of the king of diamonds, game would be laydown on a minor suit lead. The only way to set the contract would be a heart to East's ace, followed by a club switch with West holding the ace. Very unlikely.
So North's bidding was fine. It's easier to take nine tricks with the lead coming up to the South hand than 10 from the North side.