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#1 User is offline   waubrey 

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Posted 2010-February-16, 16:19

Ok, my partner and I are sitting EW. Here is the bidding... No one is vulnerable.

W-N-E-S

P-1C-P-2S
P-P-X-P

How do you interpret the double and what do you do with this hand as West?

♠AQ94
♥K65
♣1076
♦QJ2
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Posted 2010-February-16, 16:28

Reds.

[dumb 2NT suggestion]

Edit: Duh! Pass. Forghot pass existed.
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Posted 2010-February-16, 16:29

Hi:

Takeout.

El Paso.

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Posted 2010-February-16, 16:34

Pass. Partner's double is for takeout, but he should have overcalled 1Red if he had a five card suit.
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Posted 2010-February-16, 16:38

Takeout and incredibly obvious pass, scrambling to a known 4-3 fit makes no sense when your spades are this good.
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Posted 2010-February-16, 16:40

rogerclee, on Feb 16 2010, 05:38 PM, said:

Takeout and incredibly obvious pass, scrambling to a known 4-3 fit makes no sense when your spades are this good.

If I had to bet I'd bet on clubs being a 5-3 fit unless partner is 1444.

Anyways pass.
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Posted 2010-February-16, 17:36

Partner's double is takeout, please pass.
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Posted 2010-February-16, 17:56

TO plus P spells TOP.
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Posted 2010-February-16, 17:58

Partner's Dbl is takeout. This hand passes and collects B)
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Posted 2010-February-17, 02:01

lead ♣Q
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Posted 2010-February-17, 02:08

Pass.

X is a reopening, not surprisingly he is short in spade and does not
want to let them play on the 2 level.
As it is, he choose to pass to give you the option to convert, if he had
no interest what soever to play 2Sx, e.g. with a shapely 5413 hand,
and without a lot of outside defence,, he should have bid 2NT.

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Posted 2010-February-17, 03:49

Fluffy, on Feb 17 2010, 09:01 AM, said:

lead ♣Q

You don't have ♣Q. If you look at the suit symbols in the original post, you'll see that partner's hand is AQ94 K65 QJ2 1076.
... that would still not be conclusive proof, before someone wants to explain that to me as well as if I was a 5 year-old. - gwnn
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Posted 2010-February-17, 03:58

oops, then it is a bot closer, I'd try ♦Q
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Posted 2010-February-17, 04:00

Takeout, pass.

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Posted 2010-February-17, 07:08

peachy, on Feb 16 2010, 06:58 PM, said:

Partner's Dbl is takeout. This hand passes and collects :)

QFT, partner should have C, D, H, so I pass
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Posted 2010-February-17, 12:36

Hmmmm...the concensus seems to think PASS is the best bid here. Although PASS seems very enticing and the VULNERABILTY is not very condusive to further bidding, I would want to count my defence tricks. I think 3NT our way may be a little more superior contract if partner does not many CLUBS. It surely looks like the 2S bidder is very short in the red suits, which makes it a little tough to defend if partner has no spades.
Note, we got to take 8 tricks to yield a good score. +500 for 3 down.
Can we do this? I am not too sure. Think again!
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Posted 2010-February-18, 02:56

I don't know how to put it differently: Dbl is takeout, just pass on it.
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