dkharty Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 Red/red, matchpoints. Pard opens 1♥, RHO overcalls 4S. You hold: ♠x ♥Kxx ♦98xxx ♣AKxx. What's your call? FWIW, you are playing negative doubles through 4♦. Opponents are pretty sound. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 Red/red, matchpoints. Pard opens 1♥, RHO overcalls 4S. You hold: ♠x ♥Kxx ♦98xxx ♣AKxx. What's your call? FWIW, you are playing negative doubles through 4♦. Opponents are pretty sound. Pass I never get these right. Second choice double. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bluecalm Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 5♥. Partner should know we can hav weakish hand. 4NT here should be reserved for slam inviting hand with ♥ support. He won/t shouldn't take us to silly slam.I think 4♠ OR 5♥ (or both) are making too often to pass here.At imps I wouldn't consider it close. At MP's I am not that sure. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pooltuna Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 Red/red, matchpoints. Pard opens 1♥, RHO overcalls 4S. You hold: ♠x ♥Kxx ♦98xxx ♣AKxx. What's your call? FWIW, you are playing negative doubles through 4♦. Opponents are pretty sound. I take the push since I was going to force to 4♥ anyway Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fluffy Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 I'd make a take out double if it was avaible, but since it isn't I have to take a shot and will try 5♥. If opponents are conservative playing penalty doubles is clearly inferior to take otu doubles Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hanp Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 Dave, stop torturing us with impossible problems that arise from your bad methods! :ph34r: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DWM Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 Playing negative doubles to 4♦, can we assume that we are playing optional doubles of 4 ♥/♠. In that case a double is clear (or at least it is in my all too often non correct eyes) If double is penalty I dont like it as either partner typically has 2-4 badly placed spades or they have a 11 card fit. Although we can expect two tricks from our hand if we can expect more than two quick tricks in diamonds from P then we should really be looking more at slam rather than the 800. From this I would probably bid 5♥ as the hand is better than partner expects. Although its the shape they will expect and not too far off the point count it has very well placed offensive cards. Not too sure if I am correct or not here, but I hope my reasoning would at least save me from too much grief in the PM. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dkharty Posted January 9, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 Dave, stop torturing us with impossible problems that arise from your bad methods! :ph34r:LOL Han They may BE bad methods. For a long time I have been in the habit of doubling with these hands, hoping the opponents will learn to keep out of our future auctions with iffy hands. Maybe it's working, because the opponents' hands haven't been very iffy lately! -790. Partner's hands was something like ♠xx ♥AQJxxx ♦AKTx ♣x. Both diamonds were onside so 6♥ was makeable. RHO had a nine-bagger. I'm starting to rethink my "light trigger" policy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jdonn Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 5♥ wtp? When it's close, and you have support for partner... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ggwhiz Posted January 9, 2010 Report Share Posted January 9, 2010 I'm starting to rethink my "light trigger" policy. Exactly. Frequent opponents have a memory and you have to throw a change up once in a while to keep them guessing. One of my casual partners used to go to every club game in town the week before our regional and play like an idiot. He called it "advertising". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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