[quiddity]

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Some hands from our match this afternoon. Imps.
Agree with the first round double? What now?

[mike777]

quiddity, on 2012-March-11, 23:55, said:

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Some hands from our match this afternoon. Imps.
Agree with the first round double? What now?

non expert prefer 3nt...fwiw....

[JLOGIC]

I would pass, what else? Partner could not open the bidding and I have only 2 spades and only 19 points which includes the likely wasted king of diamonds. Maybe that analysis is too simplistic, but giving partner some hands like Jxxxxx Axx x Qxx slam is very poor to say the least.

I guess it's possible he's 5-5 in the blacks and slam is good in clubs but even then he might just have KJxxx Qx x Qxxxx or something.

[flytoox]

Pass. Pd didnt open a weak two or three. MY hand is pretty bad given the auction.

As for the 1st round dbl, I can accept it but prefer 3N.

[gszes]

Prefer 3n vs x even though Kx not the best stopper
in histroy of game has to be better than 2 less spades
than promised.

After our x we have boxed ourselves into a corner. If
we had bid 3n we would have no problems trusting p to
have long spades here that is not necessarily the case
after our x and we might even be better of in one of
the rounded suits than spades.

Pass (ugh) and note to self bid 3n next time.

[quiddity]

South passed and North had Kxxxxx Axxxx - xx. I guess this should be a 6D bid over 5D, but I wonder what North should do with something like 6403 and the same high cards.