Take your medicine?

[pclayton]

12 board team game. ♠AQJ, ♥QJ98xxx, ♦Txx ♣void.

 

Pard opens 1♣ and you try 1♥. LHO butts in with 1♠ and pard tries 3♣. RHO bids 3♠.

 

FWIW, you don't play support doubles here - double by pard would have shown a strong NT.

 

Now what?

[mikeh]

nothing's perfect, but surely 4♥ has to be best?

[paulg]

nothing's perfect, but surely 4♥ has to be best?

Ditto.

[skjaeran]

nothing's perfect, but surely 4♥ has to be best?

Ditto.

Me too.

The vulnerability isn't given, but I don't think we'll get rich defending anyway.

[Halo]

4H

[Echognome]

I know the hand, but what would 2NT by partner have meant?

[pclayton]

I went a little nuts here and tried 6♥.

 

Pard has short spades, right? Therefore, he probably has heart support or at least tolerance. Pard held: ♠x ♥Kx ♦AQx ♣AKxxxxx. They led a spade into my tenace. I ruffed a spade and knocked out the A♥ - wrapping.

 

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Then I woke up........ B)

 

Pard actually held: ♠x♥9xx ♦Ax ♣AKQTxxx. -1

 

I hate when I get confronted with a decision like this on a first board of a match, but thats what seems to always happen, right?

 

Counterparts got to 6♣-1. No swing, but an opportunity blown.

[pclayton]

I know the hand, but what would 2NT by partner have meant?

Undiscussed.

[Fluffy]

My first reaction was to double, I don't know the vulnerability sadly.

[jdonn]

My first reaction was to double, I don't know the vulnerability sadly.

I don't remember the vul (I was the 1♠ overcaller) but I know the hands were

 

[hv=n=sxhxxxdaxcakqtxxx&w=skt9xxhadkxxxxcxx&e=sxxxxhktdqjtcjxxx&s=saqjhqj98xxxdxxxc]399|300|[/hv]

 

So it looks like after AK of clubs you throw diamonds, ace of diamonds, diamond ruff, heart exit, and now they can't get to dummy to lead up to their spade so down 2. If the defense messes that up at any point it's down 1. The down 2 seems a bit lucky to me as it depends on the heart blockage.