[MinorKid]

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Edit: Partner's double is for take out in agreement.

[helene_t]

lol. give me four good spades or five poor ones and we can talk. This one has seven trump tricks FGS !

[Zelandakh]

This is either a joke or a UI case.

[phil_20686]

ffs, this has reminded me of the most annoying hand ever. I had 7 trumps over declarers 5, and I ended up conceding 5 trumps tricks defending 1Sx because I could not shorten my trumps enough and ended up having to lead into declarers trumps/letting him ruff things, all the time.

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Play started with a club lead, then a diamond to the ace and a club ruffed by declarer, then he played a diamond, so I ruffed and played a heart, and partner played another top heart (discarding a club), then a third heart, which I ruffed and played my fourth club, which declarer ruffed, and now I have two more trumps than him, so he plays a diamond I have to ruff and play a trump and then he played another diamond and I had to ruff and play a trump.

PS: the hand is a construction based roughly on my memory of what happened.

[MinorKid]

On this hand i bid 3♦. Partner having 30 points in his hand raised to 7♦. It is extemely unbeliveable that 7♦= was the bottom score.

[PhilKing]

MinorKid, on 2012-September-18, 22:45, said:

On this hand i bid 3♦. Partner having 30 points in his hand raised to 7♦. It is extemely unbeliveable that 7♦= was the bottom score.

Why did partner double Two Spades?

[Zelandakh]

PhilKing, on 2012-September-19, 08:39, said:

Why did partner double Two Spades?

Perhaps (s)he was catering to us having AQT8642 in trumps.

[PhilKing]

Zelandakh, on 2012-September-19, 08:41, said:

Perhaps (s)he was catering to us having AQT8642 in trumps.

But surely we need eight to pass ...

[ggwhiz]

MinorKid, on 2012-September-18, 22:45, said:

It is extemely unbeliveable that 7♦= was the bottom score.

Great hand. I'm so glad I'm not you.

[gwnn]

I heard 2Sx= is game, there are a lot of brave people here but you should take this into consideration.

[PhilKing]

East has levelled us, and I would like a game with him some time.

He has overcalled 2♠ with hearts. Then had the bottle to pass when North doubled, trusting that we would have a monumental screw-up, or failing that, a cold grand.

We must be cold for Seven Spades - I rather suspect we have about 19 tricks, but eight down in Two Spades is only 2000.



I would have bid Three Spades on the first round, which is natural for me. And partner's double shows a balanced hand with no clear direction, since with an unbalanced game force, he just bids a suit.

I simply don't believe partner has ♠- ♥AKQJ ♦AKQJT ♣AKQJ. Who doubles Two Spades with that?

[MinorKid]

PhilKing, on 2012-September-19, 12:05, said:

East has levelled us, and I would like a game with him some time.

He has overcalled 2♠ with hearts. Then had the bottle to pass when North doubled, trusting that we would have a monumental screw-up, or failing that, a cold grand.

We must be cold for Seven Spades - I rather suspect we have about 19 tricks, but eight down in Two Spades is only 2000.



I would have bid Three Spades on the first round, which is natural for me. And partner's double shows a balanced hand with no clear direction, since with an unbalanced game force, he just bids a suit.

I simply don't believe partner has ♠- ♥AKQJ ♦AKQJT ♣AKQJ. Who doubles Two Spades with that?

Eight down doubled vulnerable is 2300

[PhilKing]

MinorKid, on 2012-September-20, 02:17, said:

Eight down doubled vulnerable is 2300

Assumed they were at favourable - no good with colour coding.