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I went wrong here. Would like to see how others judge this.

 

[hv=d=e&v=n&s=s42h854da1095cj952]133|100|Scoring: IMP[/hv]

E S W N

(1D) P (1S) 2H

(Dbl!) P (3D) Dbl

(3S) ?

 

You are South, with expert partner, reasonable opponents. SAYC style.

East's Dbl was "support"

North's Dbl was "extras, with possible alternate strain(s)"

 

Please construct hand or hands for North, compatible with the bidding.

What is your call?

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I prefer a 3 bid instead of a Pass last time. A simple raise doesn't promise much, and we have got the hand off our chest.

OK. Now answer my questions, assuming you had to come in and sub at the stage of the bidding as diagrammed:)

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[hv=d=e&v=n&n=sak109haqj32d2cq43&w=sj653h96dj876ca106&e=sq87hk107dkq43ck87&s=s42h854da1095cj952]399|300|Scoring: IMP[/hv]

Pass.

North has a good hand, with a singleton .

Spades are 4-3 with E/W.

This will go down.

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Would have bid 3 the first time. I have a million ways to support partner, so this hand is good enough for the weakest possible raise. It is not "safe" to bid 3, but look what trouble pass got us into.

 

Anyway, as it is, I cannot play hide and seek with support and working points.

 

4 is akin to a wtp, even though it might easily be wrong.

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Dealer: East
Vul: N/S
Scoring: IMP
AK109
AQJ32
2
Q43
J653
96
J876
A106
Q87
K107
KQ43
K87
42
854
A1095
J952
 

Pass.

North has a good hand, with a singleton .

Spades are 4-3 with E/W.

This will go down.

If East has this hand, he has obviously lost his marbles, and I will win the match easily.

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For the opponents bidding to make sense, spades are 4-3. Additionally the only reason East is bidding 3 over 3 X is that he has only 3 s, making him 3-4-3-3. May be he opened 1 instead of 1 because his s were better than his s. If we're right so far, partner is 4-5-2-2 with a good hand. When he doubled 3 he couldn't have known anything about East's distribution except his holding, so he was hoping to play 3 if you couldn't pass 3 X.
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For the opponents bidding to make sense, spades are 4-3. Additionally the only reason East is bidding 3 over 3 X is that he has only 3 s, making him 3-4-3-3. May be he opened 1 instead of 1 because his s were better than his s. If we're right so far, partner is 4-5-2-2 with a good hand. When he doubled 3 he couldn't have known anything about East's distribution except his holding, so he was hoping to play 3 if you couldn't pass 3 X.

Thinking about it a bit more, West is more likely to be 4=1=5=3 rather than 4=1=4=4. In other words partner can still have 4=1=5=3 distribution which makes his second double more reasonable than 4=5=2=2. In any case the only thing I wouldn't do is bid 4,

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