[BunnyGo]

You hold as West:

9864, 62, A532, T84

EW vulnerable, partner deals:

1H-(P)-P-(1S)
2H-(3H)-P-(3S)
P-(P*)-??

Do you agree with the first two passes? What do you do now?

*this pass had a looong tank, if that affects your decision.

edit: correct the auction to correctly display 1S instead of 2S.

This post has been edited by BunnyGo: 2011-July-01, 22:40

[Bbradley62]

Opps accepted 2♥ over 2♠?

[qwery_hi]

Auction should have N balancing with 1S I think.

This is always a pass by me. If partner can expect to make game opposite this hand, he should have opened 2C.

BunnyGo, on 2011-July-01, 22:16, said:

You hold as West:

9864, 62, A532, T84

EW vulnerable, partner deals:

1H-(P)-P-(2S)
2H-(3H)-P-(3S)
P-(P*)-??

Do you agree with the first two passes? What do you do now?

*this pass had a looong tank, if that affects your decision.

[Bbradley62]

qwery_hi, on 2011-July-01, 22:27, said:

This is always a pass by me. If partner can expect to make game opposite this hand, he should have opened 2C.

what he said.

[MrAce]

I can understand pass and reasonable. But i can't see myself passing with an Ace. Perhaps i bid too much I'd bid 1♠. Now that i didnt, what am i supposed to do here except than final pass ? I am passing now. I wld have passed w/o the hesitation also. After all pd opened 1♥ and competed over 1♠, there is no reason for me to think he has a giant hand.

[JLOGIC]

First 2 passes are fine, now pass

[whereagles]

what exactly are you thinking of?? clear pass

[kfay]

So if I'd responded 1♠, would the opponents be playing 3♠?

Probably not. We'd be playing in hearts. Maybe I should protect our score.

On the other hand, maybe we'd be playing in a game that goes down. Or 3♥ that goes down. I can't really know for sure but in that case it doesn't matter if I double them or not.

[BunnyGo]

Yes, at the table I was thinking along Kfay's line (perhaps because we talked before he posted). I usually don't pass with an Ace, but with 4 spades and partner bidding hearts, I wasn't concerned that partner could bid 2H if he wanted to on his own. When they bid 3 spades, I thought that we'd have stolen the contract in 2H if only I'd bid 1S, so I doubled. I thought it might be a matchpoint double to protect our 2H score, but I wanted to see what the forum thought. It appears I made a unique (read: bad) decision. We did end up setting in 2 tricks so it was good in this case. Here's the whole hand:

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