For the Ekren's bidders, what do you do when the auction continues:
mycroft, on 2014-June-20, 12:40, said:
I would have to know what my expected 2♥ call would look like (and what's a sample "bad" preempt and what's a sample "good" preempt) to know what to do.
I'm 6-5 with intermediates; that makes up for a lot of "just the A". But given what I know about sample Ekren players, this could both be much weaker than expected or "partner's never going to take me for this much strength" as well as "well, this is sort of what partner would expect" or "this is on the bottom edge, but he's not going to blame me for opening it when 4M goes down".
Anything 4-4 to 5-5 (continuations make no provision for more shape than 5/5). Vul vs not our general agreement is that partner will have something contextually decent first in (say xxx xx KJxx QTxx as a dead minimum. A 'max' in response to an inquiry would be an 8 count with concentrated values. Compensating distribution lets you offset HCP a bit). Really this hand has more shape and less HCP than the partnership expects.