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#1 User is offline   ochinko 

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Posted 2007-September-15, 05:54

Scoring: IMP


(1♠) - Pass - (4♠) - Pass
(Pass) - Dbl - (Rdbl) - ?
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Posted 2007-September-15, 06:22

Someone's joking here and I think it's pard.

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Posted 2007-September-15, 07:28

Pass. Not my party and I'd rather trust partner than the opponents.

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Posted 2007-September-15, 08:35

If partner couldn't make a t/o double at the 1-level, he surely can't at the 4-level. This stinks, but it's not my party. Pass.
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Posted 2007-September-15, 09:52

Partner did not ask for my opinion.

I pass.
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Posted 2007-September-15, 11:46

In old Terrence Reese books, he notes this auction as partner having a light takeout double and figuring on a good sacrifice, like - Jxxxx Kxxx Axxx. I know that may well be out of date now, but it's food for thought anyway.
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Posted 2007-September-15, 11:58

jdonn, on Sep 15 2007, 07:46 PM, said:

In old Terrence Reese books, he notes this auction as partner having a light takeout double and figuring on a good sacrifice, like - Jxxxx Kxxx Axxx. I know that may well be out of date now, but it's food for thought anyway.

I agree that's a faint possibility, but I'd not expect anyone to do that at equal vulnerability. At favourable that explanation would be more likely.
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Posted 2007-September-15, 16:44

Partner's X is for penalty and shows a trump stack. That said, partner doesn't have that unless LHO has psyched. Partner may believe he's shown a hand with a spade void that couldn't make a t/o X. You have to evaluate what's going on but in most lineups I would bid 5D.
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Posted 2007-September-16, 01:21

jdonn, on Sep 15 2007, 07:46 PM, said:

In old Terrence Reese books, he notes this auction as partner having a light takeout double and figuring on a good sacrifice, like - Jxxxx Kxxx Axxx. I know that may well be out of date now, but it's food for thought anyway.

If you pass and partner has a distributional hand like this then he can still bid 4NT?
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Posted 2007-September-16, 04:39

I doubled for take out once and it was my first and only -990 for this sequence, I hope I can stay calm for the rest of my life.
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Posted 2007-September-16, 04:59

Jlall, on Sep 15 2007, 11:44 PM, said:

Partner's X is for penalty and shows a trump stack. That said, partner doesn't have that unless LHO has psyched. Partner may believe he's shown a hand with a spade void that couldn't make a t/o X. You have to evaluate what's going on but in most lineups I would bid 5D.

In all my regular partnerships I pass, because this is a penalty double.

There was a hand not dissimilar to this in the BW MSC a few years ago. The majority of the panellists bid, but this was a disaster, and 4S was going for a mountain as opener had indeed psyched.
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