Echognome Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Form of Scoring: Swiss (7 board matches) [hv=pc=n&s=skjt8h962dq7cqt92&d=w&v=0&b=8&a=1c1d1hp(Dbl%20%3D%205%21S%2C%20%21dHx%5Bx%5D)2hd3h]133|200[/hv] You play Snapdragon doubles. The one-level double hasn't arisen before with your partnership, so you don't take the chance that it shows additional distribution that you don't have. What's your call now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_dude Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 I would bid 4S, but I don't feel that strongly about it. I think you could easily be off 4 top tricks so I have no argument with 3S. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mike777 Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 I would bid 4S, but I don't feel that strongly about it. I think you could easily be off 4 top tricks so I have no argument with 3S. 4s Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 Opps are bidding like crazy. The hand seems to be a double fit. It's close between 3 and 4, so I pick 4. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Free Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 I don't understand why I can't bid 1♠ when I hold 5 of them and Double with only 4 card ♠. Even when playing snapdragon this just seems logical... Now I'll bid 3♠. I bid freely, so I show some values for sure. Partner can evaluate his ♥ shortness better imo. I don't like my hand that much because it's got too much defense and not enough offense. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted December 5, 2011 Report Share Posted December 5, 2011 This is an odd auction if partner has 4 spades.....why wouldn't he bid 2♠ over 2♥? Sounds to me as if he is 3=1=6=3 with a good hand, and rho has simply raised to the lawful level with a weak hand. I think the master bid is 4♥...partner should bid 4♠ with 4 of them, and otherwise we play 5♦. Axx x AKxxxx KJx won't fare well in spades most times, but 5♦ is pretty good, absent a club ruff. So I'll bid 4♥. If partner has AQx in spades, maybe he'll bid 4♠ anyway :P BTW, I think 3♠ is a poor call.....we may not have much, but everything we have is working....and we are under pressure, so we'd bid 3♠ on weaker hands, with more spades, just so as to not sell out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikeh Posted December 6, 2011 Report Share Posted December 6, 2011 so what happened? After making my cuebid, in a sequence where I don't think I have ever cuebid before, I am interested in knowing how it would have worked out :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
whereagles Posted December 6, 2011 Report Share Posted December 6, 2011 Don't be so curious :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Echognome Posted December 6, 2011 Author Report Share Posted December 6, 2011 so what happened? After making my cuebid, in a sequence where I don't think I have ever cuebid before, I am interested in knowing how it would have worked out :DPartner has the the following hand:♠9xxx♥x♦AKJTx♣AKx There is no club ruff, so 4♠ rolls. I bid 3♠ only and we didn't get to game. I think partner is right not to bid 2♠ on the lousy suit and I should have done more. It also let me rethink snapdragon doubles in this one particular sequence. I should add that I took the low road because of my club holding. Of course the opening was on a hand with xxx in clubs! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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