Outrageous

[pclayton]

In an ACBL game, you are dealt a perfectly normal weak 2: ♠QTx ♥xxx ♦KQxxxx ♣x and its w/w at matchpoints.

 

LHO overcalls 3♣ and pard makes a penalty double.

 

I posted this because my opponent made a pretty strange bid that paid off. Can you guess what it is?

 

By the way, I disregarded Pass, since that is the obvious bid.

[Guest Jlall]

3N or 4C

[rogerclee]

I would guess 3NT.

[jtfanclub]

I'll guess 3♠ because 3NT doesn't seem sufficiently weird.

[mikeh]

3♦?

 

 

Looking for and finding a 4-4 major suit fit, no doubt...maybe even a 5-4?

 

Not sure if that qualifies as weird... actually, I can't really think of a plausible call that is automatically weird, other than silly ones like a splinter, 5♣, keycard, etc.

 

3Major is obviously possible.. so is 4 major... 3N is possible based on long, strong hearts and the diamond Ace and so on. I suspect the weirdness is not so much in the bid as it is in the hand with which the bid was made.

[Sambolino]

3D which made!?

[sfbp]

4♠

 

This presupposes he is playing or thinking that 3♣ as a takeout promising some major suit hand.

 

I further suppose it didn't get alerted.

[velja_ja]

4♠ ?

[pclayton]

3♠ is the call that was made.

 

I hope you all got what I was trying to accomplish by asking the "strange bid possible'

 

Of course his partner hit with ♠AKJxx ♥AKx ♦xx ♣xxx. They scored up a nice 170. Pard was wrapping 3♣.

 

I felt totally railroaded.

[manudude03]

Well, if 3♣ wasn't alerted, you should get some adjustment for it.

[matmat]

just to clear things up, the auction read:

 

2♦(^) - 3♣ - X(*) - P;

3♠ - all pass

 

^ - weak, diamonds

* - penalties

 

preemptor held: ♠QTx ♥xxx ♦KQxxxx ♣x

[sfbp]

just to clear things up, the auction read:

 

2♦(^) - 3♣ - X(*) - P;

3♠ - all pass

 

^ - weak, diamonds

* - penalties

 

preemptor held: ♠QTx ♥xxx ♦KQxxxx ♣x

Well that wasn't clear (to me). I thought you held the 2D opener, and your RHO bid something over the X. So my vote is meaningless.

[kenrexford]

A fairly strange bid that might pay off is 4♣ -- pick a major.

[glen]

... and pard makes a penalty double ....

Was the double alerted as a penalty double?

[TimG]

just to clear things up, the auction read:

 

2♦(^) - 3♣ - X(*) - P;

3♠ - all pass

 

^ - weak, diamonds

* - penalties

 

preemptor held: ♠QTx ♥xxx ♦KQxxxx ♣x

I'm confused. From the opening post (and Phil's later post), I thought the auction was:

 

2♦-3♣-DBL-3♠

[kenrexford]

Oh yeah. I was confused too.

 

I think the auction is:

 

2♦-3♣-X-?

 

Then the question is "what bid by Advancer?"

 

I have no guesses.

[EricK]

The pronouns in the OP are a bit confusing. I think it means what do you do holding this hand (the weak 2♦ hand) after partner has made a penalty double of 3♣, because when his opponent held that hand, he didn't pass the penalty double. I don't think Phil was the one holding the weak 2♦ hand.

[matmat]

I looked up the hand on myhands, and the auction was as I had understood it from phil's post (and as I had posted). 2D was announced as weak and the X was alerted as penalties.

 

the weak 2♦ bidder responded with 3♠ on QTx to their p's penalty double.

[pclayton]

Now I know why I have problems reading other peoples' posts :rolleyes:

 

It was my LHO that held the weak 2 and pulled the 'penalty' double to 3♠. What a catch he received.

[kfay]

OP was clear.

 

I voted 3NT. Fooled me.

[olegru]

My guess was correct :rolleyes:

3 ♠ bid could be request to partner bid 3NT if he has ♥. Opener had ♦, expected partner to have ♣ stopper and strong hand after double and thought 3NT could have a reasonable chanses.

I am sure it is a bad idea, but bad bidders sometimes get lucky.

[matmat]

I think it's pretty obvious that the diamond bidder thought the double was negative :rolleyes:

 

and since p promissed 4-4 in the majors, he might as well bid his better one.

 

in retrospect, 3♠ is clear. I am more amazed that the doubler didn't raise :(