Double or Pass.

[rona_]

[hv=d=e&v=n&n=sq93hak4dq84cq865&s=s874hq76dkj109ca32]133|200|Scoring: IMP

P-P-P-1♣

1♠-X-P-P-1NT-P-P-P[/hv]

 

I can't find the deal because the team match was aborted and I don't log all the hands I play. I don't remember all the spots but I do remember that they were rather pathetic. No agreements. Pick-up expert partner. I doubled because I had points and tolerance for the other 3 suits. My partner asked what the double was, and said I should have bid diamonds! When I responded that I did not have 5 she insisted that I was wrong. I would rather pass than bid 2♦. At the other table, West made 2NT xed. Should I have passed? What should have been my thought process after one spade.

 

Thank you in advance.

 

Rona

[pbleighton]

Double shows 4+ hearts.

 

You should bid 1D or pass, either is fine. I would probably pass with a pickup partner, and bid 1D with a regular partner.

 

Opposite the double, I would have bid 2H rather than 1NT, though I tend to avoid raising on 3, AK4 is good support. 1NT is OK, though.

 

This hand had no nice bids for either one of you.

 

Peter

[rona_]

I ♦ is insufficient. The opponent interfered with 1♠ :)

[jtfanclub]

Nobody uses 2♠ here to show this hand? Huh. I'm darned close to a max pass, and if partner didn't want me to force to 2NT with a 10 count, he shouldn't have opened.

 

Now I'll be told I'm crazy again.

[pbleighton]

Nobody uses 2♠ here to show this hand?

 

2S is a club raise for me.

 

I D is insufficient. The opponent interfered with 1♠

 

LOL.

 

So it is.

 

Pass then.

 

Peter

[goobers]

I have to admit I'd bid 1N over 1S :)

[jtfanclub]

Nobody uses 2♠ here to show this hand?

 

2S is a club raise for me.

Oh well...then I would bid 1NT, stopper or no. I can't pass a 10 count.

[jdonn]

Nobody uses 2♠ here to show this hand?

 

2S is a club raise for me.

Oh well...then I would bid 1NT, stopper or no. I can't pass a 10 count.

Why not? If partner reopens with a double (or anything else) you are that much gladder you haven't misdescribed your hand. If partner passes it out then he has either a piece of garbage or spade length, and in either case I see no problem with defending 1♠.

 

If I had to not pass and hated 2♦ that much, then 2♣ is a much more accurate description of my strength than 2♠. But that is neither here nor there as I have no problem passing when no bid is right.

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

 

a matter of partnership agreement.

Some play that the neg. X can also

include a bal. 10-12 count.

 

The add. strength is compensation

enough for the missing heart.

 

So, at least for me, double is ok,

and I would not bid a forcing 2D,

because this bid will give me more

problem later on than I can handle.

 

And I would also not bid 1NT, this

promises a stopper, sometimes

partner raises to 3NT.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

[cherdano]

Oh well...then I would bid 1NT, stopper or no.  I can't pass a 10 count.

Why not? If partner reopens with a double (or anything else) you are that much gladder you haven't misdescribed your hand.

I don't mind pass but I am not that much gladder if partner doubles - I still have no bid to describe this hand.

My guess is all of pass, double, 1N and 2♣ would find support in a MSC poll.

[helene_t]

I would probably bid 2♣. Pass and Dbl are fine as well except maybe that dbl requires the agreement that p must check if you really have four hearts before bidding 4♥. I don't care for 1NT and 2♦ but I'm sure some good players would prefer one of those, especially if p is known to open 1♣ with 4-4 m.

 

P's pass on your double is ridicolous of course. "Experts" who bid like that and then even give lessons to p on the basis of the same deal go immediately to my enemies list.