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Tx will try to use hand diagram next time, this is from an alt tournament and the players actions were all over the place. 4sp made doubled though you could pose declarer a problem later in the hand p was 4243 with the sp jack which was finessed. Tx

You have x, hqx, akj10xx, kqx. Bidding 1 sp, you double, 4sp, pass by p Pass and now i would like to know do you pass Double again or prefer 5 diamonds.

Since my partner bid 2 ♠ with no honor presumably, and he didnt make a preemptive raise ,i am going to try to find his entry in ♦ and lead the 9.

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Works fine pooltuna, btw i asked a good player and he said its no beginners hand but no expert hand also. It falls in to the category advanced according to him. tx for answers.

South could have bid 3 clubs a round earlier. North has a weak two disguised as a 2 level overcall.

pass also

I know looked at the results from this hand about 35 times. Of all the 35 declarers 3 found the play of testing hearts first and when this goes wrong discarding the losing heart on the club king and guessing diamonds. All the others mostly discarded a diamond on the club king. Also popular was 3 rounds of trumps ,deblocking the clubs, heart to the ace and discard a heart on the club king and play a heart. This comes from a no pay tourney, i think now this isnt a beg/ int hand.

Yes what plaur said, though having seen this played nobody took that line in the 8 times i saw it played. So is this a beginners intermediate hand or no?

[hv=d=s&v=n&n=skq73ha93dq84ck43&s=sa8654hq54dj96caq]133|200|Scoring: MP South reaches 4 spades on a sp lead.tr are 3-1, how do you play?[/hv] I saw this played a number of times and nobody made a good show of it. Its not a hard hand ( i believe) but one that needs a good look and some planning.

More sneaky solution. Take king of spades ,play heart to queen and low diamond up. <_<

Take king of spades,pull trumps and eliminate spades, enter your own hand and play a diamond up. Basically i m hoping west has no more than 1 diamond entry above the ten. He can hop up with it and play a club through, which i finesse. Now east is stuck after taking the second diamond for the def. I get either a ruff sluf back or a club in to the tenace.

Invitational but not forcing, opener passes with 3crd heart support in a normal opening hand. He bids 3 hearts with 4 and a minimum or else 4 hearts with 4 and max.

to 1) yes and no , to 2) yes, and to 3) Dont try to enter his head.:)

guess club 6

Would bid three no trump

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The last remarks Frances Hinden made about ducking the spade finesse convince me that in real life the spade finesse at trick two is the far better play.

But i must add for my example hand that in the hand in question the south hand would be x KQJxx KQx Axxx and maybe this is not a defensive good enough hand for double.

This is a very interesting situation. The reason south cant have five hearts is i think the 4 heart bid on 3 hearts. Basically the double is take out with 1 or 2 spades and extras right? North can pass it with reasonable spades or better ones, that was the extra oppurtunity south got for the double. In my opinion double by south would even be clearer on say: x AKxxx HQxx Axx or would you bid 3 diammonds with this? Or double and on three hearts from partner 3 spades as a last attempt to reach 3nt. After this bidding i also think 2nt by north on the double is natural of course.

When you play with an unknown there is the chance of this happening especially on this sequence, but that was not the question i guess. Because the question on the thread should have been: Dare you pass this bidding playing with an unfamiliar partner?

Tx for hand. I didnt know this double from south ,usefull stuff and as justin said declarer played excellent. Maybe you should post this hand again later as an defensive problem for east the moment he or she tried the trump promotion. Anyway good problem! Oh and 2 clubs looks not pretty but i guess we all do, nice shape, 10 9 of clubs ,short spades, but hearts are blaah, well he who is without sin casts the first stone

If declarer has six hearts then a heart is best. cant wait to see the real hand.

Because with 6 hearts i guess he would have bid some number of hearts on 2 spades.

Can i change my vote?