Help
♠xx ♥Axxxx ♦Jx ♣Jxxx
P-P-1♠-P-
1NT-P-2NT-3♦-
???
Page 1 of 1
What's going on here?
#1
- Brain Farts and Actual Farts Increasing with Age
-
- Group: Advanced Members
- Posts: 9,586
- Joined: 2005-September-21
- Gender:Male
- Location:Lima, Allen County, North-West-Central Ohio, USA
- Interests:www.limadbc.blogspot.com editor/contributor
Posted 2009-May-21, 21:31
"Gibberish in, gibberish out. A trial judge, three sets of lawyers, and now three appellate judges cannot agree on what this law means. And we ask police officers, prosecutors, defense lawyers, and citizens to enforce or abide by it? The legislature continues to write unreadable statutes. Gibberish should not be enforced as law."
-P.J. Painter.
-P.J. Painter.
#2
- Group: Advanced Members
- Posts: 2,987
- Joined: 2009-February-15
Posted 2009-May-21, 22:49
Slow double.
and the result can be plotted on a graph.
#3
- Group: Admin
- Posts: 14,566
- Joined: 2003-February-13
- Gender:Male
- Location:Amelia Island, FL
- Interests:Bridge, what else?
Posted 2009-May-22, 00:26
We can eliminate RHO has a diamond preempt and forgot to bid it on the first round, because your partner has about 12 hcp, you have 6. If RHO was "weak and preemptive", his partner would have opened the bidding.
Option number 1. Your RHO misread the auction and thought his partner had bid 2NT over your 1NT for two suited takeout.
Option number 2. Your RHO has a good hand with spades and diamonds and for some reason known to himself decided not to bid over 1♠ or to double 2NT.
Option number 3. Your RHO is walking the dog and looking for you to double some number of diamonds, which he thinks he can make in his hand.
Option number 4. Your RHO might have decided it will take a diamond lead to set 3NT, so he is suggesting it the only way he can, hoping to avoid a double or to go down less than 3NT would cost him.
There is no way to figure out option 1 at the table unless your opponent is use to alerting his bid as "pass/correct" to two suited takeouts.
Which of the other options is not clear. If it is option 2 or option 3, you really have nothing to say here. You might have an undisclosed heart fit, but you really don't have a bid. I suggest pass and pick your lead. If this was matchpoints, you might consider a double but I wouldn't. If it was option 4, they still might make 3♦, but double might be necessary.
However, I will pass and respect partner's decision, whatever that might be. *you didn't say if this was 1NT forcing, or if 1NT was natural. If 1NT was "forcing" I would be more likely to double here than if it was natural.
Option number 1. Your RHO misread the auction and thought his partner had bid 2NT over your 1NT for two suited takeout.
Option number 2. Your RHO has a good hand with spades and diamonds and for some reason known to himself decided not to bid over 1♠ or to double 2NT.
Option number 3. Your RHO is walking the dog and looking for you to double some number of diamonds, which he thinks he can make in his hand.
Option number 4. Your RHO might have decided it will take a diamond lead to set 3NT, so he is suggesting it the only way he can, hoping to avoid a double or to go down less than 3NT would cost him.
There is no way to figure out option 1 at the table unless your opponent is use to alerting his bid as "pass/correct" to two suited takeouts.
Which of the other options is not clear. If it is option 2 or option 3, you really have nothing to say here. You might have an undisclosed heart fit, but you really don't have a bid. I suggest pass and pick your lead. If this was matchpoints, you might consider a double but I wouldn't. If it was option 4, they still might make 3♦, but double might be necessary.
However, I will pass and respect partner's decision, whatever that might be. *you didn't say if this was 1NT forcing, or if 1NT was natural. If 1NT was "forcing" I would be more likely to double here than if it was natural.
--Ben--
#4
- The Abbess
-
- Group: Advanced Members
- Posts: 17,231
- Joined: 2004-April-22
- Gender:Female
- Location:Copenhagen, Denmark
- Interests:History, languages
Posted 2009-May-22, 00:49
I like what Ben says. Comments:
- Option 4 I don't understand. Any such hand would have bid 2♦ or 3♦ first round, unless I am missing something.
- I think RHO could also have a weak hand with 4♥6♦ and hope you can figure that out by elimination.
- Partner shows 18 points, not 12.
- Option 4 I don't understand. Any such hand would have bid 2♦ or 3♦ first round, unless I am missing something.
- I think RHO could also have a weak hand with 4♥6♦ and hope you can figure that out by elimination.
- Partner shows 18 points, not 12.
The world would be such a happy place, if only everyone played Acol :) --- TramTicket
#5
- Group: Advanced Members
- Posts: 14,900
- Joined: 2004-May-11
- Gender:Male
- Location:Portugal
- Interests:Everything!
Posted 2009-May-22, 02:35
I dunno what's going on but, since I don't have a penalty double of 3♦ nor something relevant to say, I simply pass.
Page 1 of 1