Saturday Night Teamgame

[mikeh]

Imps, all red, advanced opps and partner: your counterpart in the other room is WC playing also with advanced partner and opps.

 

You pick up, in 2nd seat, this promising collection:

 

32  6  AK42  AK9862

 

Rho deals and opens:

 

(1♠)  2♣  (P)  3♣

(3♥)  ?

 

Do you bid, and, if so, what and why?

 

Note, in my regular partnerships, 3♣ would be a courtesy raise (2♠ would have been constructive or better) but you have NO agreements with this partner.

[mike777]

double.

 

With tough bidding hands double or cuebidding seems to help often.

[gwnn]

bid game, try to make it. because vulnerable games hurt. and because sometimes they bid 5M when it's wrong and sometimes they don't bid 5M when it's right.

[ASkolnick]

I agree with Gwynn. Bid 5C, make them make the last guess. Don't need much from partner to make it and if you are down 1, very good chance 4 of a major is making. I can't really see you getting too bloodied.

[jtfanclub]

Wow. And here I was going to settle for a 4 bid.

 

I'm predicting that partner has a hand that makes for no minor suit losers on offense and a slow winner in a major on defense, so all games are down 1.

[han]

5C for me as well. Double is penalty, no thanks.

[655321]

5♣

[Guest Jlall]

5C stands out to me, maybe it's a save or maybe it's a make or maybe it pushes them to 5. This is a perfect hand to do it, nobody knows what is going on.

[Fluffy]

Double: limit + values

[Finch]

5C stands out to me, maybe it's a save or maybe it's a make or maybe it pushes them to 5. This is a perfect hand to do it, nobody knows what is going on.

Yes.

 

Don't understand the point of doubling - this doesn't look like a hand on which you particularly want to slow the auction down, nor a hand on which you want to defend 3Hx.

[whereagles]

I joint the 5♣ crowd. No need to bid 4♦ in-between because we're going to be on lead :)