Matchpoint bidding question

[awm]

♠QT9x

♥xxx

♦Txxxx

♣x

 

Matchpoints, white vs. red. LHO deals and opens:

 

1♠ - 2♥ - 2♠ - Pass

Pass - 3♥ - Pass - Pass

3♠ - Pass - Pass - ???

[jdonn]

It's telling that partner reopened with 3♥ instead of double. He seems to have 7 hearts and/or short diamonds. And he must have something decent just given the lack of bidding by the opponents and my nothingness. I think our hands fit like a glove even if I had a yarb with this shape. I'm going 4♥ which I would have done last round.

[P_Marlowe]

Hi,

 

Pass.

 

It is either Pass or double, I would go with Pass.

 

I guesss my p would have raised earlier, it helps if you have a garbage

raise av., but given that we have Q109x in their suit, I dont mind pass.

 

Double may well be the winning bid, although it is not unlikely that they

go down -2 anyway.

 

With kind regards

Marlowe

[Siegmund]

I voted pass. At this vulnerability, double is tempting, but I do need THREE tricks from partner for that to be right, and only 1 of them is going to be coming from hearts.

[helene_t]

Double? With one defensive trick and one of the opps almost certainly short in partner's suit? No thanks.

 

4♥ I could understand. But I pass.

[whereagles]

I'm going with 4♥.

 

Robson/Segal would have agreed with pass previous round. As for me, I'm not so sure :unsure:

[gnasher]

Pass. Why should I undo partner's good work?

[mcphee]

I would have raised sooner and not faced this problem. I have a good hand for H and passing over 2S seems pussy to me.

 

Given that I was forced to pass I can now thank my LHO for drawing my attention to the fact I forgot to support sooner. You are getting a S lead and time is on your side, I bid the game I expect to make.

[Free]

I would've bid 4♥ the previous round, so I guess I'll do it now before I miss another chance.

[Codo]

I try to construct hands where 4 ♥ is a good spot to be.

 

After this exercise it is an easy pass. Of course, if they never lead trumps, you may take 10 tricks, or maybe partner misbids and is stronger then expected.

 

Seriously, there are hands which make 10 tricks even after a heart lead- but they are rare.

[hotShot]

I won't tell opps where to search for ♠ honors and about the split, so dbl is out.

Fortunately partner did not dbl on his nonexisting ♥ tricks.

So I have an easy pass.

[barryallen]

I try to construct hands where 4 ♥ is a good spot to be.

 

After this exercise it is an easy pass. Of course, if they never lead trumps, you may take 10 tricks, or maybe partner misbids and is stronger then expected.

 

Seriously, there are hands which make 10 tricks even after a heart lead- but they are rare.

Maybe I am missing something major here, but I would not write off 4♥ on the basis.

 

If partner has just ♥AKJxxxx, ♣Axx with a ♠void or ♦ entry?

even with ♣Kxx, it still has options?

And if partner does not have 3♣, there's a good chance he has enough in ♦?

 

The crux for me would be "did I believe partner was void in ♠"?

[MarkDean]

I guess I am just to unimaginative to do anything other than pass.

[Fluffy]

I am also a passer, 4♥ was tempting the round before, bidding it now is wrong unless you play with a law adict or something.

[awm]

[hv=d=w&v=e&n=sxhakqj9xxdkcaxxx&w=saxxxxhxdajckjtxx&e=skjxhtxdq9xxxcq9x&s=sqt9xhxxxdtxxxxcx]399|300|Scoring: MP[/hv]

 

I passed, right or wrong. 3♠ can be made if declarer picks up the singleton diamond king, but it failed by a trick at the table (losing a diamond, a club, a heart, and two spades). Much of the field was in 4♥ making, although best defense should set it a trick (heart lead, followed by an underlead of the spade ace by west after winning the diamond ace to get his partner in for another trump play).

[effervesce]

Your partner should have bid 4♥ on the first round with that hand? I just can't understand a 2♥ overcall, then rebalancing 3♥...

[rogerclee]

Dealer: West Vul: E/W Scoring: MP

♠ x ♥ AKQJ9xx ♦ K ♣ Axxx ♠ Axxxx ♥ x ♦ AJ ♣ KJTxx ♠ KJx ♥ Tx ♦ Q9xxx ♣ Q9x ♠ QT9x ♥ xxx ♦ Txxxx ♣ x

 

I passed, right or wrong. 3♠ can be made if declarer picks up the singleton diamond king, but it failed by a trick at the table (losing a diamond, a club, a heart, and two spades). Much of the field was in 4♥ making, although best defense should set it a trick (heart lead, followed by an underlead of the spade ace by west after winning the diamond ace to get his partner in for another trump play).

North had a totally normal 4H bid? Twice?

[jdonn]

I want my credit! Yeah north had a 4♥ bid but you could make his hearts worse and he wouldn't any more or at least not obviously, like x AQJxxxx K Axxx.

 

Sorry going to sleep now.

[lmilne]

lol at the doublers :)

i might bid 4♥ with south at first opportunity if i was on my A game, if i missed that one i would def bid it second round (either to make or to save, bidding just got better now that they bid 3♠).

 

if RHO bid 3♠ over 3♥, i would always bid 4♥.

[gwnn]

lol at the doublers wink.gif

i might bid 4♥ with south at first opportunity if i was on my A game, if i missed that one i would def bid it second round (either to make or to save, bidding just got better now that they bid 3♠).

 

if RHO bid 3♠ over 3♥, i would always bid 4♥.

I am sorry who are you LOL ing at? As of now 10:30 GMT there are 0 votes for double and only part of 1 post that mentions double as an option.