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Partner seems to regret from previous bid


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sit or pull?  

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  1. 1. sit or pull?

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    • 5 hearts
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Assuming 4 is natural, obvious pull. Why else did partner bid 4 if we aren't supposed to accept a push to five on this hand? I'd say there is pretty close to being no alternative.

 

If 4 is shortness, which it seems like it can't be since that would make partner 1-1 in the minors or something, obvious pass.

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Assuming 4 is natural, obvious pull. Why else did partner bid 4 if we aren't supposed to accept a push to five on this hand? I'd say there is pretty close to being no alternative.

Agree. What did the auction mean?

 

4C = I have a hand worth bidding game with clubs and hearts, if they are about to bid 4S or 5D this may help you decide what to do.

 

In my world (which I am aware may not be standard), I am NOT in a forcing pass auction here - partner bid 4C to help me over their bid if we happen to have a big double fit. Now partner is doubling 5D he hasn't suddenly found a lot of spade and diamond cards, he's just saying that he really has a good hand, and it's up to me to decide whether to play or defend.

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Obviously we don´t play pass double inversion, else you had mentioned it.

 

Why should 4 Club show a real second suit? What had pd bid with a 4521 hand? And this hand is surely possible after the bidding so far? With a 2514 hand, he could have bid 3 Club, can´t he?

 

If your methods do not allow to bid 3 Club with a second suit and he must have bid 4 Club to show a strong two suiter, then pulling the double is an idea.

 

In any scenario, double suggested to defend in the context of the bidding so far, we are surely in a forcing pass situation.

My 3334 distribution says defence, my lack of defensive tricks screams offense, so I think that this is no way a hand with "no alternative", which is confirmed by the vote so far.

 

Anyway, I would choose to sit. I hate to bid a the 5. level and my hand is not so unusual that I overrule partners descission.

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I agree that 4 Club does not show his hand, however if you switch the black kings,

he more or less has his bids and 5 and 5 are still one down.

 

And please don´t tell me that he bid this way with

xx, AKxxx,x,KQTxx. This hand is a 4 Club bid, but surely no double of 5 Diamond.

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