I would be interested in people's thoughts on opening with this kind of hand (IMPs)
I chose 3C, ended up with 4S+1 by East, not a bad score but 4C-2 or 5C-3 scored much better
I also considered opening 1C but thought it was too misleading, despite the number of tricks
My chosen (Pavlicek et al ) guidelines for pre-empts are overbid 2 tricks at unfav vul, 3 tricks at equal vul and 4 tricks at fav vul
In this case I reckoned I had 6 tricks (+3 for equal vul) -> 3C
However I noticed a range of opening bids including also 1C (which I had considered), 5C etc.
What are the best options plus if my opening bid was ok should I just keep competing to 5. How do you decide when to stop given no support comes from North at all.
regards P