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Passed hand competitive decision. [T5 AQJ3 T32 K532]

#1 User is offline   WesleyC 

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Posted 2012-March-23, 22:47

You are NV vs VUL and pass as dealer holding:


The auction continues:


Would you double at Matchpoints? IMPs? What about at a different vulnerability?

What about if East had preempted 3D or 5D?

Thanks for your thoughts :)

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Posted 2012-March-24, 02:21

I am just delighted to have so nice hand and let partner know the good news also. I double.
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Posted 2012-March-24, 03:05

Seems like an obvious double to me. Partner will expect me to have 10-11 points, 4-5 hearts, about 2 spades (but not 3), 3-5 clubs. Hey!! That's what I have!

The fact that I am a passed hand makes the decision to double easier, not harder.

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Posted 2012-March-24, 19:18

Just at the edge for double in front of partner.
As little as HJ out and this is left to partner
to show his extra trick or more.
A passed hand max and S:105 if partner has 6+S, OK.
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Posted 2012-March-24, 20:02

Dbl...dbl and dbl. Any vul, scoring and any of the preempts
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Posted 2012-March-25, 13:12

I would double any of 3D, 4D or 5D.
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Posted 2012-March-26, 04:00

View PostFrancesHinden, on 2012-March-25, 13:12, said:

I would double any of 3D, 4D or 5D.


I would double 2 ♦ 6 ♦ and 7 ♦ too.
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Posted 2012-March-26, 10:58

Unanimous support for double...

At the table I also doubled and the auction continued:



4♥ went -1 losing the obvious 4 tricks. West only had 7 Diamonds so 4♦ was also -1 (with 2 Hearts & 2 Clubs cashing).

In the post-mortem I wondered whether 3-card diamond length, a partner who only opened in 3rd seat @ favorable and no guarantee of a fit might be enough reasons to take a conservative view and pass.

After two passes and a non-constructive 4D bid I'm already marked with some values. With short diamonds partner won't need much extra to reopen. However if partner has diamond length (and possibly wasted diamond values) passing out 4D could easily be our best spot. Maybe i'm just being pessimistic but if you give partner a 5323 and East a 74, you'll be lucky to get out un-doubled.

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Posted 2012-March-26, 11:14

So you found partner with 7 working points and game went -1. You had made the contract if his spades had been the ace not Qj, or the king and the finesse working.
With the given layout, they may make 4 ♦ if the suits breaks even nicer for them, maybe even if declarer has his 8. diamond.

So to double was surely the best possible bid. Did not work this time? We knew that before, because if the obvious bid had worked, nobody had posted the hand.
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Posted 2012-March-26, 12:22

It's not your fault -- partner doesn't have an opener.

Give partner ♠ KJ863 and you have at least a potential guess in ♠s to make.
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