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kfay

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What is partner's pass? If the typical undefined, 3S and hope good fit saves too high.

 

I play Pass shows an expected 5-8 without clear action (X warns). So 3S more certain.

 

Further I partition 1C/1D so this hand is in 1D and partnership expects S-barrage, so 3S stands out and partner 'could/would' have put his 2-cents in with pass.

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I'm not sure how happy I'll be if pard leaves my t/o double in. I think I'll bid 3.

I play pass here as trap or crap. Twice now, I have X'd in cases like this and partner has passed with a hand like...

 

J8xxx

xx

xxxx

xx

 

so that's what I imagine these days when I think about X vs. 3.

 

In this case...hmm, looks like opps will get one diamond, one club, and four trumps. 300 for us. Game looks impossible. Even if you mix cards around, you still don't have entries to dummy, so you're leading the minor suits from your hand.

 

So I double. I fully expect partner to have 5 spades (at this vulnerability, the 2 level isn't much of a barage) so I won't be shocked when partner leaves it in. If they make, well, I'll offer them my congratulations.

 

But I would be very surprised.

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