Dublin North Region Hand of the month

Dlr: N Vul: E/W T QJT63 9 KT6542 A72 A84 AQT85 87 J843 5 K643 AQJ3 KQ965 K972 J72 9

Last night while playing a bridge game on BBO with my friends the following hand turned up. Eamon was seated in the West seat with Dealer North and EW(us) vulnerable

North East South West
2H P 4H ?

2H alerted as 5+5+ hearts and minor and 6-10 hcp
4H is the normal bid with the East hand exerting maximum pressure.

So its your go and you are vulnerable and are you a woman or a mouse.

Much to the dismay of the opponents I emerged with a 5D bid and everybody passed quickly and to further dismay found that I was making 5Ds.

After some examination of the hands my opponents indicated a large WOW factor for my bid followed by well done dude.

This hand was played on the internet and there was no pauses before East passed or any indication that the beautiful dummy was held. There are many folk out there who might produce a double with the EAST cards ...its pretty close and has the shape. However my pard deemed it a pass which is ok.

My main reason for bidding is I can visualize a Heart singleton in partners hand and thus there will be support for my suits in some shape or form.

Half the other folk who played the hand also reached 5Ds but none of them had to deal with 2H P 4H bidding beforehand.

What do people think... Of course it is much easier to bid 5Ds if partner pauses and passed ..thus the old HESITATION pass ...well known throughout the country or WEASEL as its known in the borough of Waterford... two squirms and shift in the chair is 10 points.

My gracious opponents Peter Pigot and James Heneghan were not so giving in the rest of the hands and myself and partner Maria Whelan fell behind by several imps.