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#1 User is offline   TheoKole 

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  Posted 2007-December-04, 00:22

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First hand in a pick-up game on BBO.

You are sitting South and the bidding goes

(1 ♣ ) -> 1 ♠ (overcall by partner) -> (P) -> P
(X) -> XX -> (P) -> P
(1 NT) -> X -> (XX) -> ???

This is with a pick-up "expert" (don't know if real or not) partner.

I chose to pass ( which was passed around ) expecting my partner to have at a minimum KQJxxx and 2 outside Aces, and I didn't expect them to have 6 running tricks outside of spades.

What would you do?

Thanks,

Theo
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Posted 2007-December-04, 00:40

Pass and pass again.
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Posted 2007-December-04, 00:52

Pass, pass, and probably leave after the hand...
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Posted 2007-December-04, 01:23

pass. partner has another bid if he's got something in mind.
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Posted 2007-December-04, 04:08

Thanks for your replies.

The declarer played the hand beautifully as if in double dummy and made
1NT XX +3. :(

My partner lead the ♠ 10 won by the declarers ♠ J and I was starting to get a very bad feeling about this hand. :)

Dummy's hand was
♠ K8xx
♥ xxxx
♦ KJx
♣ Jx


Declarer then played a low club to dummy's Jx and partner played his singleton A ♣ !!! on the second spade lead to declarers A ♠ which was the beginning of a squeeze in 3 suits against me. I thought long and hard about what to throw on this round and eventually decided to throw a ♣ almost hoping that my partner would be squeezed before me. ;) Which in a way he was as he was forced to bare his ♥ A on the run of the clubs and AK of ♦.

After 2 ♠ and 4 ♣ tricks declarer played A and K of ♦ see partner show out and lead a ♥ towards Kxx and ducked as partner was forced to play his now singleton A.

Declarer made 4 clubs, 2 diamonds, 1 heart and 3 spades.

I sat threw criticism by my partner who explained that his double was for takeout, ??? and that since he obviously couldn't have had 18 - 20 points that I should have bid 2 ♣ or 2 ♥.

I was pretty sure that I was correct in passing but I wanted to ask the forum for any other opinions.

Thanks again.

Theo
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Posted 2007-December-04, 04:21

P showed a monster hand, probably with shortness in one of the red suits since otherwise he would have started with a double. He first makes a business rdbl so his double is penalties.
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Posted 2007-December-04, 07:40

I really hate these "experts" who claim to know the truth and tell so stupid things.

Mark him as enemy. You had been right, he had been wrong. Simple.
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Posted 2007-December-04, 07:46

Pass, pass, pass. Pd thought he was Rambo and he could kill them on his own, he was wrong.
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Posted 2007-December-04, 09:24

Couldn't everyone even online sense the noxious green cloud of stupid billowing forth??
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Posted 2007-December-04, 09:53

Obvious pass (and pass, and pass).
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Posted 2007-December-04, 10:13

Pass, partner shows 7+ tricks against NT. KQJTxx + 2 aces for instance.

Instalogoff, when partner goes into this rubbish talk mode.
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Posted 2007-December-04, 12:56

Pard's dbls/rdbls were a bit silly, but our side probably doesn't have more than 20-21 hcp. Thus 1NT might well make and pulling the rdbl is definitely a possibility.
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